What is Great Big Photography World about?

Great Big Photography World is about photography as both a creative practice and a career. Perrin interviews photographers about visual storytelling, client work, creative growth, business lessons, and the personal experiences behind their images.

Who hosts Great Big Photography World?

Great Big Photography World is hosted by Perrin, who leads one-on-one conversations with photographers and visual creatives.

How long are Great Big Photography World episodes?

Most Great Big Photography World episodes run about 1 to 1.5 hours, with some shorter interviews around 40 minutes and some longer conversations close to two hours.

How often does Great Big Photography World release?

Great Big Photography World releases weekly, with recent episodes arriving on a steady weekly schedule.

Where can I listen to Great Big Photography World?

Great Big Photography World is available on Podfriend and any podcast app that supports RSS, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Great Big Photography World

Perrin·284 episodes

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We want Great Big Photography World to be a source of valuable advice, inspiration, and motivation. We put a lot of love and effort into each episode and choose our interview guests very carefully.

Why listen

Great Big Photography World gives photographers a steady stream of candid, craft-focused conversations with working image makers across wildlife, food, fashion, travel, documentary, wedding, and commercial photography. Host Perrin talks with guests about the creative choices, business realities, burnout, tools, and personal stories behind the images, so it works especially well for photographers who want both inspiration and practical career perspective.

Episodes

1 hr 11 min

Jun 3, 2026Episode 281

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, where he accidentally built a career in travel photography. He gets into what it was like to unlearn clinical news writing and develop a more personal visual style, how the camera became his way into genuine conversations with strangers around the world, and what finally pushed him to turn a decade of travel into his first book, Hidden in Plain Sight.Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ronan-oconnellWant to support the show? Click here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/supporter/Join our online photography community to interact with photographers just like this, get access to fun photo contests, find inspiration daily, and much more! https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/join/

1 hr 22 min

May 27, 2026Episode 280

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 going viral on Instagram was one of the worst things that happened to his growth. He also gets honest about burnout, what clients actually want from a photographer, and why 1,000 targeted views will always beat 100,000 random ones.Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/matti-seppanenWant to support the show? Click here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/supporter/Join our online photography community to interact with photographers just like this, get access to fun photo contests, find inspiration daily, and much more! https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/join/

1 hr 16 min

May 20, 2026Episode 279

Michael Howard – Can Photography Escape the Algorithm? Rethinking Social Media for Creatives | Episode #279

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1 hr 6 min

May 13, 2026Episode 278

Eric Wittman & Anjali Banthia – How Photographers Are Actually Using AI in 2026: Inside VSCO’s New Research | Episode #278

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1 hr 15 min

May 6, 2026Episode 277

Alin Tolea – The Tinkerer Turning Vintage Cameras into Instant Memory Machines | Episode #277

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1 hr 13 min

Apr 29, 2026Episode 276

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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2 hr 2 min

Apr 22, 2026Episode 275

Shelly Waldman – Photographing Food, Running a Business, and Figuring It Out as You Go | Episode #275

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1 hr 28 min

Apr 15, 2026Episode 274

Margot Raggett – When Beauty Becomes Responsibility: Turning Wildlife Photography into a Global Call for Conservation | Episode #274

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1 hr 20 min

Apr 8, 2026Episode 273

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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1 hr 47 min

Apr 1, 2026Episode 272

Ivan Tsupka – Dressing the Dream: How Fashion Photography Builds Worlds of Desire, Myth, and Untouchable Beauty | Episode #272

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1 hr 35 min

Mar 25, 2026Episode 271

Ben Smith – A Small Voice in a Loud World: The Quiet Pursuit of Purpose Beyond the Frame | Episode #271

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1 hr

Mar 18, 2026Episode 270

Victor Coker Jr. – The Hype Man Behind the Camera: Turning Portraits into Moments of Courage and Self-Belief | Episode #270

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1 hr 31 min

Mar 11, 2026Episode 269

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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1 hr 40 min

Mar 4, 2026Episode 268

Rachael Talibart – When the Sea Becomes the Subject and the Teacher: A Photographer’s Lifelong Dialogue with Water | Episode #268

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1 hr 10 min

Feb 25, 2026Episode 267

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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1 hr 6 min

Feb 18, 2026Episode 266

Jason Pettit – The Beauty of Less: Fewer Frames, Deeper Roots, and the Quiet Power of Nature Photography | Episode #266

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1 hr 1 min

Feb 11, 2026Episode 265

Paulie Marechal – Color Carries the Story: Photographing People Without Taking Their Truth | Episode #265

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1 hr 17 min

Feb 4, 2026Episode 264

Michele Lee – Where Meals Become Memory: Finding Home, Emotion, and Honesty in Food Photography | Episode #264

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1 hr 19 min

Jan 28, 2026Episode 263

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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1 hr 4 min

Jan 21, 2026Episode 262

Rachel Korinek – Details You Can Almost Taste: Reinventing Food Photography One Texture at a Time | Episode #262

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1 hr 30 min

Jan 14, 2026Episode 261

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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1 hr 19 min

Jan 7, 2026Episode 260

Jillian Brown – Paddling Through Fire and Fog: A Journey of Grit, Wilderness, and the Stories We Carry | Episode #260

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1 hr 37 min

Dec 31, 2025Episode 259

Erich McVey – Built on Support, Shaped by Risk: The Unlikely Path to a Wedding Photography Legacy | Episode #259

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1 hr 27 min

Dec 24, 2025Episode 258

Lucrezia Bastoni – Where the Light Learns to Listen: Photography, Presence, and the Courage to Care | Episode #258

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1 hr 6 min

Dec 17, 2025Episode 257

Brittany DeMaio – A Light That Lasts: Photographing Generations of Families and Growing a Legacy | Episode #257

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1 hr 22 min

Dec 10, 2025Episode 256

Jay Watson – Photographing the Unscripted: Finding Poetry in Subcultures and the Spirit of California | Episode #256

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1 hr 16 min

Dec 3, 2025Episode 255

Gabriel Ramirez Junco – Wings, Scales, and Singing Forests: Photographing the Fragile Beauty That Holds a Nation Together | Episode #255

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1 hr 16 min

Nov 26, 2025Episode 254

Eric Wittman – Leading VSCO Into a New Era of Creative Tools, Authentic Community, and Human-Centered AI | Episode #254

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39 min

Nov 19, 2025Episode 253

Kristeen Waddell – Chasing Light and Little Feet: The Art of Family Photography in Its Wildest Moments | Episode #253

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56 min

Nov 12, 2025Episode 252

Peter Istvan - When the Mirror Smiles Back: Headshots, Humility, and the Art of Letting People Be | Episode #252

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56 min

Nov 5, 2025Episode 251

Nico Trinkhaus – Seeing Without Seeing: A Travel Photographer’s Story of Capturing Europe Through Presence, Not Imagination

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57 min

Oct 29, 2025Episode 250

Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove – When the Earth Cracks Open: A Photographer’s Dialogue with a Volcanic World | Episode #250

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1 hr 8 min

Oct 22, 2025Episode 249

Ratish Nair – In the Company of Kings: Documenting the Spirit of Nature’s Fiercest Souls | Episode #249

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1 hr 6 min

Oct 15, 2025Episode 248

Jonathan Knowles – Visual Alchemy in Advertising: Creating Iconic Art for the World’s Biggest Brands | Episode #248

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56 min

Oct 8, 2025Episode 247

Erik Johansson - Ladders to Nowhere, Shadows to Somewhere: Photographing the Impossible | Episode #247

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1 hr 26 min

Oct 1, 2025Episode 246

Johnny Martyr – A Photographer and His Film: A Monochrome Ode to Truth | Episode #246

1 hr 12 min

Sep 24, 2025Episode 245

Daniel Forster - Fifty Years on Deck: Capturing the Spirit and Speed of Competitive Sailing | Episode #245

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1 hr 5 min

Sep 17, 2025Episode 244

Laura Zalenga – From Silent Chaos to Striking Clarity: The Art of Self-Portraiture | Episode #244

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1 hr 7 min

Sep 10, 2025Episode 243

Hannah Bjorndal - Wedding Photography with Purpose: Shaping a Team That Leads by Seizing the Moment | Episode #243

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46 min

Sep 3, 2025Episode 242

Matt Payne – Hiking, Healing, and Honesty: Building a Book of Purpose Through Photography | Episode #242

1 hr 31 min

Aug 27, 2025Episode 241

Owen Deutsch – From Darkrooms to the Tropical Andes: A Photographer’s Mission to Save the Birds | Episode #241

1 hr 14 min

Aug 20, 2025Episode 240

Chris Covatta – Portraits, Playbooks, and Persistence: A Photographer’s Journey Through Sports History | Episode #240

47 min

Aug 13, 2025Episode 239

Rachel Collet – Yachts, Key West Charm, and the Art of Architectural Photography | Episode #239