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Great Big Photography World

Great Big Photography World

Perrin 283 Episodes Oct 14, 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

Perrin Adams – 300 Episodes In: A First Look Inside the New Great Big Photography World | Episode #300
Perrin Adams – 300 Episodes In: A First Look Inside the New Great Big Photography World | Episode #300 Oct 14, 2026 16:50 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 time, and how you get to decide what comes next.He talks about where it all started with Photographycourse
Craig McGowan – Frozen Landscapes and Old Growth Forests: The Dedication Behind an Award-Winning Landscape Photographer | Episode #299
Craig McGowan – Frozen Landscapes and Old Growth Forests: The Dedication Behind an Award-Winning Landscape Photographer | Episode #299 Oct 7, 2026 01:02:05 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 talks about how a teenage Olympus OM-1 and a library full of technical books first drew him to photograp
John Shephard – The Patience of Panoramic Film: Shooting Wide on Cameras Built for a Different Era | Episode #298
John Shephard – The Patience of Panoramic Film: Shooting Wide on Cameras Built for a Different Era | Episode #298 Sep 30, 2026 01:15:42 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 year apprenticeship under renowned panoramic photographer Ken Duncan, including a trial by fire two week tr
Felix Inden – Some Shots Take 10 Years: A Landscape Photographer's Lesson in Patience | Episode #297
Felix Inden – Some Shots Take 10 Years: A Landscape Photographer's Lesson in Patience | Episode #297 Sep 23, 2026 01:08:02 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 talks about why some of his favorite images sit unedited for up to ten years before he's finally ready
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

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