Brutalizing The Press with Photojournalist Nick Stern
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This man has STORIES. Career photojournalist Nick Stern shares how he got into photographing ICE and DHS raids and stories of being press during a time when even local law enforcement shoots and arrests reporters.
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| 0:00.0 | You got told a lot of lies about achievement. |
| 0:03.4 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.0 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L ship trapped in a capital of salescape. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's fight back in have some talks about class in the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and nots. |
| 0:17.8 | Fat cats and Fox. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a thousand natural shocks. A Bad with Money podcast. Hello and welcome. Back at Fox. It's a thousand natural shocks. |
| 0:21.2 | A Bad with Money podcast. Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money Podcast. I'm your host, Gabe Dunn. And with me today is Nick Stern. Do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? Sure. Firstly, thanks for the invitation to join you, Gabe. I've been a photo journalist |
| 0:37.6 | for over 30 years, starting in the mid-90s, traveled to around 50 countries in around 2012, |
| 0:44.8 | 2013 in LA. As happens in LA, I reinvented myself as an artist, but also maintained a presence |
| 0:50.8 | as a photo journalist as well. And really getting back into do more photo more photo journalism since kind of 2020 when the whole Black Lives Matter thing kicked off with the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. |
| 1:01.3 | What brought you to L.A.? |
| 1:02.3 | I came here in 2007. |
| 1:04.5 | As a news photographer, I'd been here on a few assignments. |
| 1:07.5 | And I've never been a sun worshipper, but the idea of wearing jeans and a t-shirt |
| 1:12.3 | any day of the year and not having to scrape ice off the windows. And that was one thing that |
| 1:18.6 | appealed to me. The other thing that appealed to me in LA was the creativity here. You know, |
| 1:22.5 | you can go to a party, you can go to dinner, you can just hang out with friends. And you will |
| 1:26.3 | meet somebody who is a director, a producer, a musician, a dancer, an actor, a writer, you know, whatever. And that I just |
| 1:33.7 | found amazingly compelling about the city. What kind of stuff were you covering, you mentioned it a little |
| 1:39.0 | bit, but what kind of stuff were you covering over your 30 years as a photojournalist? Yeah, I started out in 94 and very quickly |
| 1:46.6 | developed this niche for investigation work and some of that was working undercover, some of |
| 1:51.9 | that was traveling internationally, trying to track people down and that kind of thing. |
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