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Great Big Photography World

Great Big Photography World

Perrin 283 Episodes Sep 16, 2026

Great Big Photography World is a podcast that provides valuable advice, inspiration, and motivation for photographers. Each episode features carefully selected interview guests and covers a range of topics to help listeners improve their photography skills.

Episodes

Skaistė Gulbė – Bold, Deliberate, and Determined to Photograph Who You Really Are | Episode #296
Skaistė Gulbė – Bold, Deliberate, and Determined to Photograph Who You Really Are | Episode #296 Sep 16, 2026 01:16:33 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, deeply personal style she is known for today.Skaistė talks about the self portraits that sparked it al
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
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 Sep 9, 2026 01:04:39 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 technique, the layering and Photoshop wizardry behind those clean, catalog-ready product shots that most peo
Steve Gettle – Every Photo Has a Story Behind It: Forty Years of Chasing Wildlife and Meaning | Episode #294
Steve Gettle – Every Photo Has a Story Behind It: Forty Years of Chasing Wildlife and Meaning | Episode #294 Sep 2, 2026 01:02:06 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, Nicole.Steve talks about the difference between taking a photograph and making one, the tiers an image has
Stuart Rawlinson – The Story Was Always the Point: A Lifelong Travel Log Told One Trip at a Time | Episode #293
Stuart Rawlinson – The Story Was Always the Point: A Lifelong Travel Log Told One Trip at a Time | Episode #293 Aug 26, 2026 01:12:43 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 as low as minus 103 degrees Fahrenheit.Stuart talks about how a chance conversation with a fellow statio
Janina Wilde – No Rules, No Right Answer: Why Multiple Exposure Feels Like Meditation With a Camera | Episode #292
Janina Wilde – No Rules, No Right Answer: Why Multiple Exposure Feels Like Meditation With a Camera | Episode #292 Aug 19, 2026 01:45:27 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 travel photography before multiple exposure finally clicked for her during a creative course, why layering
Alexandra Nemeth – The Seven Summits and Beyond: Photography, Guiding, and Life in the World's Most Extreme Places | Episode #291
Alexandra Nemeth – The Seven Summits and Beyond: Photography, Guiding, and Life in the World's Most Extreme Places | Episode #291 Aug 12, 2026 01:44:58 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 about how photography, not mountaineering, was actually what pulled her into the mountains in the first pla
Mark James Ford – The Chemist Who Photographs Light a Thousand Years Old: The Science and Wonder of Astrophotography | Episode #290
Mark James Ford – The Chemist Who Photographs Light a Thousand Years Old: The Science and Wonder of Astrophotography | Episode #290 Aug 5, 2026 01:25:35 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 how a school darkroom sparked a lifelong fascination with the chemistry of image making, why he believes n
Aleksandra Dynaś – Truth Is the Only Currency: How Photojournalism Taught One Photographer to Stop Constructing and Start Witnessing | Episode #289
Aleksandra Dynaś – Truth Is the Only Currency: How Photojournalism Taught One Photographer to Stop Constructing and Start Witnessing | Episode #289 Jul 29, 2026 01:00:50 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 spending.Aleksandra talks about how solo travel at 16 taught her to observe people long before she ever picked
Michael Breitung – Landscapes, Morocco, and the Photography Life He Never Expected | Episode #288
Michael Breitung – Landscapes, Morocco, and the Photography Life He Never Expected | Episode #288 Jul 22, 2026 01:08:56 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 never expected to see from someone who never quit his day job.Michael talks about how a road trip to t
Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287
Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287 Jul 15, 2026 52:41 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 India.Carolien talks about how a bored afternoon in a photography hide with her husband's spare camera st
Antoine Didienne – The Luxury of Simplicity: The Documentary Approach to Wedding Photography That Changes How Couples Remember Their Day | Episode #286
Antoine Didienne – The Luxury of Simplicity: The Documentary Approach to Wedding Photography That Changes How Couples Remember Their Day | Episode #286 Jul 8, 2026 59:28 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 chaotic days in a couple's life.Antoine talks about why he describes his work as the luxury of simplicity,
Anusha Stewart – From the Family Table to the Camera: How Sri Lankan Heritage Shaped a Food Photographer's Creative Vision | Episode #285
Anusha Stewart – From the Family Table to the Camera: How Sri Lankan Heritage Shaped a Food Photographer's Creative Vision | Episode #285 Jul 1, 2026 01:09:40 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 constant in her life: food.Anusha talks about growing up in a Sri Lankan family where dinner meant eight d

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