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

Podcast: Great Big Photography World · Perrin

Opublikowano: 2026-06-03

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...