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Great Big Photography World

Great Big Photography World

Perrin 283 Episodes Aug 19, 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

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
Frederic Paulussen – One Photographer, Two Worlds: Corporate Headshots, Street Photography, and the Career Nobody Plans For | Episode #284
Frederic Paulussen – One Photographer, Two Worlds: Corporate Headshots, Street Photography, and the Career Nobody Plans For | Episode #284 Jun 24, 2026 01:02:24 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 quite planned for, why he romanticized travel photography before realizing he would never actually wake
Daniel Wakefield - It Goes So Much Deeper Than a Photo: What a Great Headshot Actually Does to People | Episode #283
Daniel Wakefield - It Goes So Much Deeper Than a Photo: What a Great Headshot Actually Does to People | Episode #283 Jun 17, 2026 01:24:45 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 and a career teaching high school science eventually led him to the Florida Everglades with a camera, w
Courtney Victoria – It Was Always There: How Macro Photography Trains You to See What You've Been Walking Past | Episode #282
Courtney Victoria – It Was Always There: How Macro Photography Trains You to See What You've Been Walking Past | Episode #282 Jun 10, 2026 01:14:06 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 with photography, why she almost always leaves her camera in the bag when she first arrives at a location,
Ronan O'Connell – Leaving the Newsroom Behind: A Journalist's Unlikely Path to Travel Photography | Ep. 281
Ronan O'Connell – Leaving the Newsroom Behind: A Journalist's Unlikely Path to Travel Photography | Ep. 281 Jun 3, 2026 01:11:07 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, where he accidentally built a career in travel photography. He gets into what it was like to unlearn clinic

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