About this episode

Ronan O'Connell shares his journey from hard news journalism to travel photography and the personal transformations that accompanied it.

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 of travel into his first book, Hidden in Plain Sight. Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ ronan-oconnell Want to support the show? Click here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/supporter/ Join our online photography community to interact with photographers just like this, get access to fun photo contests, find inspiration daily, and much more! https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/join/

People in this episode

Host: Perrin

Guest: Ronan O'Connell

Topics covered

• travel photography
• journalism
• career change
• personal storytelling
• burnout
• visual style

Keywords

• travel photography
• journalism
• career change
• burnout
• visual storytelling
• Thailand
• Hidden in Plain Sight

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Australia

Books & works: Hidden in Plain Sight

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