Congratulations! You’ve been selected as one of the Top 50 Visionary Creative Innovators of 2025!
…Just send us £250 and we’ll email your certificate.

Yeah. We’re going there. In this episode of The Loud Lens, I’m calling out the bullshit behind pay-to-play photography awards, the fake prestige machine, and the obsession with being “award-winning.” Let’s talk about the money, the ego, and the marketing spin — and whether buying your own applause is ever worth it.

It’s been one year since I wrote Take The F*cking Lens Cap Off* . The book that pissed some people off, empowered others, and reminded me exactly who the hell I am.

In this honest anniversary episode, I’m unpacking why I wrote it, what it cost me, and why I’m still not going anywhere. This is my love letter to the loud, the defiant, and every creative who’s ever been told to stay small.

We’re talking naysayers, growth, authenticity, and taking up space in an industry that still pretends to be polite. Consider this your wake-up call — and your reminder that no one’s coming to save your dream.

If you needed a sign to stand up, speak out, and take the damn lens cap off… this is it.

#TheLoudLens #KhandieRees # photography #CreativeBusiness #PhotographerLife #UnfilteredPhotography #CreativeRevolution #NoGatekeeping #WomenInPhotography #RealTalkCreative #BluntTruths #OwnYourVoice

Specially requested episode from The Loud Lens facebook group. How do you market your photography business when you have no money and very few clients. So after some thought and planning, here is a 7 day plan that might help. I hope it does. I dont have all the answers but this HAS worked for me before.

Feel free to request any episodes yourself and let me see if you impliment any of the tips!

#photography #marketing #free

I only went and got myself another swanky guest! This time it is Matt Curtis who is an award winning photographer and big deal at The BIPP who is massive believer in heirloom photography work over the dispoable imagery the algorithm seems to thrive on. Have prints had their day or should we push them more?

Find out more about Matt here:

www.mattcurtisphotography.com

www.facebook.com/mattcurtisphotography

https://www.instagram.com/mattcurtisphotography

Grab tickets for the BIPP Big Bash 2025:

https://www.bipp.com/the-bipp-big-bash-2025/

When a viral reel exposed a supplier perplexed over a photographer charging £150 for image use/access, the internet split. But beneath the outrage lies a bigger issue: GDPR, contracts, copyright, and the messy expectations between suppliers at weddings. In this episode, Khandie Rees breaks down the reality of who owns what, why photographers charge, and why your business needs to understand usage rights before you kick off on Instagram.

I will admit that resetting yourself in business is so important but what actually does that mean? Is it another cliche buzzword some self professed social media guru is gonna sell me an overhyped overpriced course about? Nah its a legit thing. In this episode of The Loud Lens, Khandie talks about how she resets to keep her business mind sharpe and her work on track.

He started out filming tutorials in his garage and now works with Adorama, runs sold-out workshops, and collaborates with some of the biggest names in photography. But being a photography educator isn’t the same as being a working photographer.

In this episode, I sit down with my mate Gavin Hoey to get real about:

• Why he swapped shooting jobs for teaching thousands online
• The difference between pleasing clients vs. pleasing audiences
• What big brands really expect from educators
• The burnout, the critics, and the “you’re not a real photographer” brigade
• Whether free tutorials have wrecked photography education
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This isn’t your usual polished interview. Expect honesty, laughs, and a few hard truths about what it takes to build a career teaching photography in 2025.

Follow Gavin:

Youtube

Adorama

Instagram

#gavinhoey #teaching #photography

Forget funnels, forget boosted posts. I’ve promoted my photography business in some seriously weird ways — and shockingly, they worked. From offering ‘just in case’ portraits after seeing a missing child poster with a bloody Snapchat filter, to running a Pay What You Can day where people literally paid me in cake, I’m lifting the lid on the marketing experiments that got me remembered.

This isn’t marketing fluff. It’s scrappy, human, and it proves one thing: weird bloody works.

Hit play and maybe you’ll find the guts to try something unconventional in your own business.

Tickets for BIPP photo event in November 2025 https://www.bipp.com/the-bipp-big-bash-2025/

Images of the rubbish https://khandiephotography.pixieset.com/press-khandie/