Photographers Keeping it Real

Photographers Keeping it Real Celebrating the world's best documentary wedding photography

Set up to help bring this under appreciated form of wedding photography to the masses and celebrate just how amazing those people shooting real moments candidly are!

It was amazing to welcome the tattooed legend of wedding photography to the podcast. We cover a whole range of topics f...
09/03/2026

It was amazing to welcome the tattooed legend of wedding photography to the podcast.

We cover a whole range of topics from business to creativity, a vegas elopement, gangster salesmen and of course, as it’s Chris, his usual controversial takes on things.

Chris has years of experience and makes some amazing points that I have already looked at implementing in my own business.

A huge thanks to Chris for his time and all his knowledge.

Mentioned in this episode .ai

New for the 2026 awards… the Photographers Keeping it Real highly recommended awards. Celebrating those images chosen by...
09/03/2026

New for the 2026 awards… the Photographers Keeping it Real highly recommended awards. Celebrating those images chosen by one judge in the round.

An amazing collection of images in themselves and just shows the level it takes to win a PKIR award.

We love being able to celebrate images that resonated with one judge. Well done to all the winners.

We absolutely love this image by .leephotography 👏

Announcing the winners of Round One (2026) of the Photographers Keeping it Real Awards… Another year, another incredible...
03/03/2026

Announcing the winners of Round One (2026) of the Photographers Keeping it Real Awards…

Another year, another incredible gallery of images from our very talented members. Well done to everyone who won an award this round.

Images top left to bottom right; .goglia

A huge thanks to the judges:

A huge thanks to our awards sponsor

Photographers Keeping it Real is honoured to announce a new sponsorship with UK album company With over 75 years experi...
25/02/2026

Photographers Keeping it Real is honoured to announce a new sponsorship with UK album company

With over 75 years experience providing exceptional quality services to the photographic industry, Digitalab is a third-generation family run enterprise with a remarkable team at the core.

Every product is meticulously handcrafted right here in the North East of England.

Scott has personally visited the Digitalab factory, met the team and uses the products in his own photography business. PKIR only partners with truly great businesses that support photographers and we can’t wait to work with Digitalab for this years awards.

More announcements soon but Digitalab will be offering print credit to the overall winner and runner up for the awards in 2026 and a new ‘judges choice’ award.

Thanks again to the whole team at Digitalab for the support.

10/02/2026

We covered a lot of marketing chat on last weeks podcast with the wonderful and some interesting traditional SEO vs AI chat.

What do you think, are you still focussing on traditional SEO? Is it bringing you leads? Are you making a plan to focus on AI search results?

Listen to the full episode anywhere you get your podcasts from, just search Photographers Keeping It Real. Thanks to Martin for sharing all his knowledge.

The podcast is back and kicking off 2026 is the wonderful Martin Cheung Episode 35 - Marketing, Industry Compromise & F...
03/02/2026

The podcast is back and kicking off 2026 is the wonderful Martin Cheung

Episode 35 - Marketing, Industry Compromise & F**K SEO is available anywhere you get your podcasts from, just search Photographers Keeping It Real

A huge thanks to Martin for chatting and I hope you enjoy.

Martins own podcast -

Photo of Martin by

Introducing the winners of round five, the final round of 2025 of the Photographers Keeping it Real Awards. What a year ...
31/12/2025

Introducing the winners of round five, the final round of 2025 of the Photographers Keeping it Real Awards. What a year and what a final collection.

A huge thanks to the judges for round five; Janina from

Check out all the winning images from a very tough round on the website now and also our top 10 photographers of the year (separate post incoming)

Here are 10 award winning images from round five;

Image 1 - .leephotography
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Announcing the winners of Round Four of the Photographers Keeping it Real 2025 awards 🎉 As always an amazing standard wi...
11/11/2025

Announcing the winners of Round Four of the Photographers Keeping it Real 2025 awards 🎉

As always an amazing standard with only 15% of all entries winning!

Thank you to all the judges for this round .photo

Special mention to for (I think) the most ever awards in a single round with 8! Also to this photo by for being the only photo picked by all 5 judges.

Congrats again to all the winners this round.

We have 1 final round for 2025 and it’s still close between the top 10.

Round Four (2025) is OPEN… members can submit up to 10 of their best documentary wedding images. This is the penultimate...
20/09/2025

Round Four (2025) is OPEN… members can submit up to 10 of their best documentary wedding images. This is the penultimate round of the year so don’t miss it!

Entries are open until 09:00am on Tuesday 21st October 2025 (UK time).

Cover image by award winning photo from round three.

Good luck!

The Photographers Keeping it Real (PKIR) round three (2025) results are out! Well done to all the winners. This round we...
03/09/2025

The Photographers Keeping it Real (PKIR) round three (2025) results are out! Well done to all the winners. This round we only had 3 judges, with 2 needing to select an image for it to win, this made it extremely difficult to win an award with less than 5% of entries winning!!

Thanks to the judges for this round and

Well done to for winning 3 awards putting him in the current number 1 slot for the year.

Also to who won 3 awards this round.

2 more rounds to go for 2025, the next round opens next week… good luck.

Cover photo is an award winning photo by

Round Three (2025) of the Photographers Keeping it Real Awards (PKIR) for short are open. Members can enter up to 10 of ...
03/06/2025

Round Three (2025) of the Photographers Keeping it Real Awards (PKIR) for short are open. Members can enter up to 10 of their best documentary wedding photos from real weddings now. Not a member? Join and enter now.

The deadline for entires is 0800hrs on the 9th July 2025.

Good luck!

Photo by previous PKIR award winner.

Round 2 (2025) of the Photographers Keeping it Real awards are out. An amazing set and a huge congratulations to all the...
29/04/2025

Round 2 (2025) of the Photographers Keeping it Real awards are out. An amazing set and a huge congratulations to all the winners. Another very hard round with less than 10% of entries winning.

See the full set on our website now.

Cover photo by

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