Episode Notes
Photojournalist Preston Gannaway won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetic photography documenting a New Hampshire family coping with a young mother's illness and death. Remember Me is her breathtakingly graceful and intimate chronology of EJ over the intervening years since he lost his mother at 3 years of age. Gannaway masterfully transcends one family's journey to speak to the universal touchstones of life, love, loss, and the abiding ties that bind.
In this conversation, Preston discusses, among other things:
Observation as a superpower
Finding a photograph
Parameters of storytelling
Intuitiveness and nuance
Consent & collaboration
Photojournalism
Documentary tradition
Community journalism
A prologue of images
Hindsight
Capturing presence in the absence
Taking away the ‘fever pitch’
Defining objectivity
An empathic eye
Editing and sequencing
Funding projects
Big, weighty things
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