Episodes
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John Leech – It’s Like the Camera Isn’t There: Finding the Real Emotion at Weddings | Episode #302
In this episode, Perrin sits down with John Leech, a UK wedding photographer, to talk about how he approaches a wedding day and where he finds the real emotion in it, from the getting ready to the walk up the aisle. John talks about picking up a camera at about six or seven, learning to develop…
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Neil Selkirk – The Camera Sees More Than You Do: A Lifetime of Straight Photography | Episode #301
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Neil Selkirk, a London-born, New York-based photographer who assisted Richard Avedon, took Diane Arbus’s masterclass, and went on to become the only person authorized to print her photographs since her death. They talk about his career and his new book, Why...
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Perrin Adams – 300 Episodes In: A First Look Inside the New Great Big Photography World | Episode #300
For 300 episodes, you've been listening. Now you're in the room. Episode 300 is a big one, for two reasons. Perrin says thank you to every guest and every listener who got the show here, and he takes you on a first look inside the new Great Big Photography World: what we built, why we took our...
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Craig McGowan – Frozen Landscapes and Old Growth Forests: The Dedication Behind an Award-Winning Landscape Photographer | Episode #299
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Craig McGowan, a Brisbane-based landscape photographer who balances a career spent in offices and meetings with a passion for some of the world's most remote places, from the frozen landscapes of Ellesmere Island to the old growth forests of Tasmania. Craig...
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John Shephard – The Patience of Panoramic Film: Shooting Wide on Cameras Built for a Different Era | Episode #298
In this episode, Perrin sits down with John Shephard, a panoramic landscape photographer who has spent over 30 years shooting exclusively on slide film with swing lens and rotating lens cameras, a format that has all but disappeared from serious landscape work today. John talks about his four…
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Felix Inden – Some Shots Take 10 Years: A Landscape Photographer's Lesson in Patience | Episode #297
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Felix Inden, a German landscape and nature photographer who has spent over a decade chasing dynamic weather and demanding conditions around the world, building a career that blends photography expeditions, workshops, and years of patience in the field. Felix...
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Skaistė Gulbė – Bold, Deliberate, and Determined to Photograph Who You Really Are | Episode #296
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Skaistė Gulbė, a photographer and serial entrepreneur from Lithuania who spent years shooting weddings, newborns, birthdays, and pretty much anything clients would book her for, before a three month COVID lockdown pushed her toward the bold, black and white,...
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Jasmine Lawrie – If It Doesn't Stop the Scroll, It Doesn't Work: A Product Photographer's Philosophy on What Makes an Image Worth Looking At | Episode #295
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Jasmine Lawrie, a Scotland-based product, food, and drink photographer who turned a point and shoot camera from her mum and a teenage beauty blog into a full time career built on striking, scroll-stopping imagery. Jasmine talks about the ghost mannequin...
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Steve Gettle – Every Photo Has a Story Behind It: Forty Years of Chasing Wildlife and Meaning | Episode #294
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Steve Gettle, a nature and wildlife photographer who has spent close to 40 years turning a childhood love of creek beds and dragonflies into a full time career leading photography tours to 35 countries around the world with his wife and business partner,...
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Stuart Rawlinson – The Story Was Always the Point: A Lifelong Travel Log Told One Trip at a Time | Episode #293
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Stuart Rawlinson, a longtime member of the Great Big Photography World community whose photography career began at 18 years old as a general field assistant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, and who later wintered over at South Pole Station in temperatures…
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Janina Wilde – No Rules, No Right Answer: Why Multiple Exposure Feels Like Meditation With a Camera | Episode #292
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Janina Wilde, a UK-based multiple exposure photographer and educator who spent over 20 years as a science teacher before leaving the classroom this year to run the Wild Photography Academy full time. Janina talks about how she tried landscape, macro, and...
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Alexandra Nemeth – The Seven Summits and Beyond: Photography, Guiding, and Life in the World's Most Extreme Places | Episode #291
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Alexandra Nemeth, a photographer, published author, and mountain and polar guide who has climbed all Seven Summits, led expeditions to Antarctica, and built an entire career around the idea that a camera can take you places you never imagined. Alex talks…
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Mark James Ford – The Chemist Who Photographs Light a Thousand Years Old: The Science and Wonder of Astrophotography | Episode #290
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Mark James Ford, a chemist and astrophotographer based in Germany who spent decades photographing city skylines and macro flowers before pointing a camera at the night sky and capturing the Horsehead Nebula on his very first real attempt. Mark talks about…
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Aleksandra Dynaś – Truth Is the Only Currency: How Photojournalism Taught One Photographer to Stop Constructing and Start Witnessing | Episode #289
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Aleksandra Dynas, a Polish-born documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Barcelona who has lived in seven countries, traveled to around 70 more, and built a photography career on a single conviction: that truth is the only currency worth…
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Michael Breitung – Landscapes, Morocco, and the Photography Life He Never Expected | Episode #288
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Michael Breitung, a German software engineer and landscape photographer who has spent the better part of 15 years shooting across six continents, running yearly workshops in the medinas and deserts of Morocco, and building a photography life that most people...
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Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Carolien Hoek, a Dutch wildlife photographer and travel writer who has spent the better part of a decade chasing birds across six continents, from photography hides in Belgium and the Netherlands to the rainforests of Ecuador and the mountains of northern...
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Antoine Didienne – The Luxury of Simplicity: The Documentary Approach to Wedding Photography That Changes How Couples Remember Their Day | Episode #286
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Antoine Didienne, a San Diego-based wedding and family documentary photographer who grew up in France surrounded by Bresson, Doisneau, and the French Nouvelle Vague, and has spent his career bringing that European artistic sensibility to one of the most...
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Anusha Stewart – From the Family Table to the Camera: How Sri Lankan Heritage Shaped a Food Photographer's Creative Vision | Episode #285
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Anusha Stewart, a UK-based food photographer who came to the camera through an unlikely path of finance in the City of London, math teaching, and running a group of care homes, before COVID lockdowns gave her the time to finally do something with the one...
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Frederic Paulussen – One Photographer, Two Worlds: Corporate Headshots, Street Photography, and the Career Nobody Plans For | Episode #284
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Frederic Paulussen, a corporate and street photographer who built a photography business after getting fired from a marketing agency, on a suggestion from his dad. Fred talks about how photography went from a high school hobby to a full-time career he never...
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Daniel Wakefield - It Goes So Much Deeper Than a Photo: What a Great Headshot Actually Does to People | Episode #283
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Daniel Wakefield, a South Florida-based headshot and branding photographer who built a six-figure photography business from scratch after a first attempt that never landed a single client outside of friends and family. Daniel talks about how a biology degree...
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Courtney Victoria – It Was Always There: How Macro Photography Trains You to See What You've Been Walking Past | Episode #282
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Courtney Victoria, a UK-based macro and nature photographer whose work finds fantasy and storytelling in the smallest corners of the forest floor. Courtney talks about how a first-year university darkroom session accidentally sparked a lifelong obsession…
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Ronan O'Connell – Leaving the Newsroom Behind: A Journalist's Unlikely Path to Travel Photography | Ep. 281
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Ronan O'Connell, a travel journalist and photographer whose career began covering crime and tragedy for one of Australia's biggest daily newspapers. Ronan talks about how burnout from years of hard news reporting led him to pack up and move to Thailand…
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Matti Seppänen – Chasing Feeling Over Fame: How Curiosity Built One of Finland's Most Atmospheric Visual Storytellers | Episode #280
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Matti Seppänen, a self-taught photographer and visual storyteller based in Finland. Matti opens up about how a career-ending accident led him to pick up a camera, how he built a business in luxury travel and tourism without a single formal class, and why…
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Michael Howard – Can Photography Escape the Algorithm? Rethinking Social Media for Creatives | Episode #279
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Eric Wittman & Anjali Banthia – How Photographers Are Actually Using AI in 2026: Inside VSCO’s New Research | Episode #278
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Alin Tolea – The Tinkerer Turning Vintage Cameras into Instant Memory Machines | Episode #277
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Thomas Luscombe - The Moments You Can't Control (And the Ones You Can): Where the Street Becomes the Story | Episode #276
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Shelly Waldman – Photographing Food, Running a Business, and Figuring It Out as You Go | Episode #275
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Margot Raggett – When Beauty Becomes Responsibility: Turning Wildlife Photography into a Global Call for Conservation | Episode #274
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Ian Poh Jin Tze – Not Chasing the Shot, But the Feeling: A Journey Through Wild Places and Unseen Lives | Episode #273
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Ivan Tsupka – Dressing the Dream: How Fashion Photography Builds Worlds of Desire, Myth, and Untouchable Beauty | Episode #272
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Ben Smith – A Small Voice in a Loud World: The Quiet Pursuit of Purpose Beyond the Frame | Episode #271
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Victor Coker Jr. – The Hype Man Behind the Camera: Turning Portraits into Moments of Courage and Self-Belief | Episode #270
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Kasper Rajasuo – The Calm That Lives Between the Trees: Growing Up With a Camera in Finland’s Quiet Wilderness | Episode #269
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Rachael Talibart – When the Sea Becomes the Subject and the Teacher: A Photographer’s Lifelong Dialogue with Water | Episode #268
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Caleb Holdsworth – From Bullfrogs to Barred Owls: A Young Photographer’s Journey Into Patience, Presence, and Letting the Wild Shape Him | Episode #267
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Jason Pettit – The Beauty of Less: Fewer Frames, Deeper Roots, and the Quiet Power of Nature Photography | Episode #266
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Paulie Marechal – Color Carries the Story: Photographing People Without Taking Their Truth | Episode #265
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Michele Lee – Where Meals Become Memory: Finding Home, Emotion, and Honesty in Food Photography | Episode #264
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Mario Fazekas – From Kruger to Kalahari: 1,000 Days of Waiting, Wandering, and Photographing the Unwritten Stories of Africa’s Wild | Episode #263
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Rachel Korinek – Details You Can Almost Taste: Reinventing Food Photography One Texture at a Time | Episode #262
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Chris Fulcher & Savannah Woods – Building Sin City Creative: How a Photographer and an Anthropologist Turned Chaos into a Business | Episode #261
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Jillian Brown – Paddling Through Fire and Fog: A Journey of Grit, Wilderness, and the Stories We Carry | Episode #260
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Erich McVey – Built on Support, Shaped by Risk: The Unlikely Path to a Wedding Photography Legacy | Episode #259
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Lucrezia Bastoni – Where the Light Learns to Listen: Photography, Presence, and the Courage to Care | Episode #258
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Brittany DeMaio – A Light That Lasts: Photographing Generations of Families and Growing a Legacy | Episode #257
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Jay Watson – Photographing the Unscripted: Finding Poetry in Subcultures and the Spirit of California | Episode #256
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Gabriel Ramirez Junco – Wings, Scales, and Singing Forests: Photographing the Fragile Beauty That Holds a Nation Together | Episode #255
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Eric Wittman – Leading VSCO Into a New Era of Creative Tools, Authentic Community, and Human-Centered AI | Episode #254
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Kristeen Waddell – Chasing Light and Little Feet: The Art of Family Photography in Its Wildest Moments | Episode #253
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