Episode 13: The Photography & Video Team
The Photography & Video Show 2025, 8th-11th March, 2025 at Excel London
Episode Description
Welcome to The Photography Pod, the podcast determined to bring you the World’s most inspirational photographers.
As March approaches, photographers from all over the UK are preparing to head to The Photography & Video Show.
So, to tie in with this we are pleased to have on the show this week Hazel Soper and Ruth Folkard, the team behind the event.
We discuss what goes into planning such a huge event, what visitors can expect from this year’s show, and get the inside scoop on the move to Excel London for the 2025 event.
This episode actually is the first of a few episodes focussed on The Photography Show. The next couple of episodes will feature professional photographers speaking at the event.
This week we also view the entries for this month’s photo competition, on the theme of ‘Winter’. We had some incredible entries which can be seen below.
The two that we’d like to single out are here:
Danut Cristea - made Steve feel nostalgic about his life around the canals of the midlands
Helen Parkinson - reminded Nick of Hubert Ponting’s early photography from Antarctica Terra Nova Voyage
There will be a couple of treats from the cupboard of doom on the way to these two, and keep an eye on the Facebook Page for news of the next competition.
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Meet your hosts
Nick Church
Nick is a wedding and commercial photography, filmmaker and educator based in Bristol, UK. Following a career in the Software Industry, Nick saw the light (literally) and made photography centre stage in 2018. Most recently Nick has become a regular speaker at The Photography & Video Show in the UK and is delighted to be part of The Photography Pod.
Nick's website : https://www.nickchurchphotography.co.uk/
Nick's Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/nickchurchphotography/
Outside photography, Nick and his partner Dawn have four boys and his other passions writing and performing music, cycling and motorcycling.
Steve Vaughan
Steve is a wedding photographer based in Oxfordshire and together with his partner in crime, Sam, they run Sam and Steve Photography. Steve was awarded Wedding Photographer of the Year by FujiFilm, Photography News and Loxley.
Steve’s website: https://www.samandstevephotography.com/
Steve’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samandstevephotography
Steve and Sam have 5 children between them, and Steve somehow manages to also have a busy role in training and sales within the pharmaceutical industry. Deciding they need yet more drama in their lives, Sam and Steve also both perform on stage.