Marina Spironetti: Winning Strategies for Photography Competitions

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This episode of the SheClicks Women in Photography Podcast features an insightful conversation with award-winning photographer Marina Spironetti. Marina is a Milan-based travel and food photographer who has found great success by entering prestigious photography competitions.

Originally studying languages and journalism, Marina discovered her passion for photography serendipitously through developing photos in a darkroom. She went on to study photojournalism and has since built a successful freelance career focusing on travel and food photography assignments around the world.

In the podcast, Marina discusses how early rejection from a photography competition motivated her to keep improving. Her persistence paid off when she went on to win categories in competitions like the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year and Travel Photographer of the Year. Marina shares valuable lessons she's learned about entering competitions, including researching the right ones for her style of work.

Winning awards provided major career boosts for Marina. Photo editors suddenly contacted her about assignments rather than the other way around. She offers insights into how recognition from competitions opened new opportunities that allowed her to grow her freelance business.

Marina also discusses her portrait of Martina Bartolozzi, a female butcher from Panzano in Tuscany, Italy, that won her the very first Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers in the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Awards.

Marina gives a fascinating perspective on how photography competitions can elevate photographers' careers when the right strategies are employed.

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