Family Photography Blog
Welcome to the family photography blog from This is Reportage: Family! This is the area of the site where we'll be bringing you all our latest features; a veritable treasure-trove of documentary family photography goodness! Check back regularly for new features.
This was 2021
Excited to reveal our largest group feature to date – ‘This was 2021’ – where almost 100 of our members share their favourite documentary family captures from last year. Featuring the work of photographers all over the world, we’re showing just one image per photographer who contributed here, but note that doesn’t mean it’s their single favourite image – it would be too tough to just choose one fave photo from an entire year of shooting! – but each image is within that photographer’s personal Top 5 favourites of the year.
This is How: ‘Holiday’ by Katrin Küllenberg
In the third of our ‘This is How’ series – where photographers tell us exactly how they ‘got the shot’ – we have our 2020 joint-winner of Storyteller of the Year, Katrin Küllenberg, telling us exactly how she captured this Reportage Family Award of hers.
Katrin shares so much here, including her thoughts on trying out new things, her use of flash, layering, mirroring, and more…
This is Reportage: Family & This is Reportage Christmas Party 2021!
A couple of weeks ago we had our Christmas Party in London, UK, and it was such a great night! For reasons known to the entire world, we were unable to do the party in 2020, so it felt amazing to be able to come together again this year. Very sadly, just a few days before the event, the UK covid travel rules changed, meaning lots of our European members were unable to make it over – such a shame! – but those that managed to come along all had a super (and perhaps, quite drunken…!) time 🙂
Photographer of the Year and Storyteller of the Year 2021: Sabine Doppelhofer
Honoured to reveal our 2021 Photographer of the Year & Storyteller of the Year: Sabine Doppelhofer! Sabine won a staggering 34 Awards from us in total: 21 Reportage Family Awards and 13 Family Story Awards. This is an absolutely incredible achievement; the likes of which I think we may never see again. Winning a single award from us is incredibly tough; to win so many, so consistently, is quite astonishing.
This is How: ‘Equanimity’ by Agata Szymanowicz
In the second of our new series here on This is Reportage: Family, ‘This is How’, we’re honoured to have the brilliant Agata Szymanowicz taking us behind the scenes on how she captured this Reportage Family Award of hers.
Agata shares so much in this piece, including the exact settings she used to get this motion blur with sharpness with the panning technique, her life in lockdown, her edit (including the SOOC version), and more…
