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Skaistė Gulbė – Bold, Deliberate, and Determined to Photograph Who You Really Are | Episode #296

#296

Last Wednesday at 8:00 AM

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 all, the moment she looked back at years of client work and deleted her entire portfolio to start over, and why she refuses to shoot models for her creative work, choosing instead to find a w...

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

#295

09/09/2026

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 people have never heard of, and how being made redundant from her in-house ecommerce role pushed her to finally go freelance.

She gets into her philosophy that every image has to earn the stop...

Steve Gettle – Every Photo Has a Story Behind It: Forty Years of Chasing Wildlife and Meaning | Episode #294

#294

09/02/2026

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 to climb through before it becomes something truly special, and the moment his eye felt like it was smoking after chasing a sunrise shot in the Serengeti with a 600 millimeter lens...

Stuart Rawlinson – The Story Was Always the Point: A Lifelong Travel Log Told One Trip at a Time | Episode #293

#293

08/26/2026

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 station worker sparked his interest in documenting his travels, what it took to keep a mechanical Nikon F and 35 millimeter film working in the most extreme cold on Earth, and the helicopter flight near...

Janina Wilde – No Rules, No Right Answer: Why Multiple Exposure Feels Like Meditation With a Camera | Episode #292

#292

08/19/2026

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 images together throws out nearly every technical rule photographers are taught, and how a technique that demands so much planning and composing somehow became one of the calmest, most meditative things she does. She gets...

Alexandra Nemeth – The Seven Summits and Beyond: Photography, Guiding, and Life in the World's Most Extreme Places | Episode #291

#291

08/12/2026

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 place, why she once sold her entire camera gear down to the last memory card to fund her Everest expedition, and the emotional sunrise on Gokyo Ri that she says planted the seed...

Mark James Ford – The Chemist Who Photographs Light a Thousand Years Old: The Science and Wonder of Astrophotography | Episode #290

#290

08/05/2026

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 no other art form demands a deeper understanding of physical and chemical processes than photography, and the accidental discovery that led him from cityscapes to distant galaxies. He gets into what it...

Aleksandra Dynaś – Truth Is the Only Currency: How Photojournalism Taught One Photographer to Stop Constructing and Start Witnessing | Episode #289

#289

07/29/2026

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 up a camera, why she learned photography by shooting demonstrations in Barcelona rather than in a classroom, and what drove her to spend months living in the slums of Uganda documenting street children whose stories...

Michael Breitung – Landscapes, Morocco, and the Photography Life He Never Expected | Episode #288

#288

07/22/2026

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 the Grand Canyon with a brand new DSLR and no real plan produced a photo he still considers one of his best 17 years later, why a brief attempt at going full...

Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287

#287

07/15/2026

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 started an obsession she never saw coming, why she thinks of herself as a collector first and a photographer second, and the challenges of sitting in a hide for 14 hours waiting for...

Antoine Didienne – The Luxury of Simplicity: The Documentary Approach to Wedding Photography That Changes How Couples Remember Their Day | Episode #286

#286

07/08/2026

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, what it actually means to be the antithesis of the Pinterest photographer, and why he would rather photograph a bride putting on her dress than see it hanging against a window. He...

Anusha Stewart – From the Family Table to the Camera: How Sri Lankan Heritage Shaped a Food Photographer's Creative Vision | Episode #285

#285

07/01/2026

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 dishes on the table, why food was never just food but something she celebrated with and turned to when things got hard, and how a Nikon...

Frederic Paulussen – One Photographer, Two Worlds: Corporate Headshots, Street Photography, and the Career Nobody Plans For | Episode #284

#284

06/24/2026

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 up for the sunrise, and how he ended up building two completely separate creative lives under one roof.

He gets into what corporate headshot photography demands that most photographers underestimate, why...

Daniel Wakefield - It Goes So Much Deeper Than a Photo: What a Great Headshot Actually Does to People | Episode #283

#283

06/17/2026

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, why he walked away from wildlife photography to shoot corporate headshots, and what he had to unlearn about business before things finally clicked. He gets into the mindset shifts that separate photographers who struggle...

Courtney Victoria – It Was Always There: How Macro Photography Trains You to See What You've Been Walking Past | Episode #282

#282

06/10/2026

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, and how getting into macro completely changed the way she moves through a woodland. She gets into the mindfulness behind her process, what it actually takes to find a composition at extreme magnifications, and why...

Ronan O'Connell – Leaving the Newsroom Behind: A Journalist's Unlikely Path to Travel Photography | Ep. 281

#281

06/03/2026

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...

Matti Seppänen – Chasing Feeling Over Fame: How Curiosity Built One of Finland's Most Atmospheric Visual Storytellers | Episode #280

#280

05/27/2026

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.

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

#279

05/20/2026

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