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Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287
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- Great Big Photography World
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- 3161
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Summary
In this episode, Perrin sits down with Carolien Hoek, a Dutch wildlife photographer and travel writer who has spent the better part of a decade chasing birds across six continents, from photography hides in Belgium and the Netherlands to the rainforests of Ecuador and the mountains of northern India. Carolien talks about how a bored afternoon in a photography hide with her husband's spare camera started an obsession she never saw coming, why she thinks of herself as a collector first and a photographer second, and the challenges of sitting in a hide for 14 hours waiting for the right bird to show up. She gets into the difference between a birder's checklist and a photographer's standard, why she will never photograph a bird sitting on a feeder, and how writing detailed travel journals for every trip she takes has become just as important to her as the images she brings home. Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ carolien-hoek 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/