Capturing Masculinity with Pete Muller—Nat Geo Storytelling Fellow, Conflict Photographer

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Pete Muller has traveled the world with this camera. A National Geographic Storytelling Fellow and conflict photographer, he’s chronicled everything from Ebola, to African civil wars, to modern forms of masculinity. That last project brought him to south west Ohio last year for a little thing we call MAN CAMP. Pete shares his adventurous and aggressive life—and a critical look at masculinity and MAN CAMP—in this powerful conversation.

Get your tickets for MAN CAMP at www.mancamp.us

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:19.3	You know, we all have that friend who's just cool as hell, right?
0:22.6	Cool job, cool style, cool attitude, cool freaking hair with his own Wikipedia page.
0:30.0	We all got our friend that's like that, right?
0:32.1	Well, I kind of disguise a friend.
0:33.9	I shared three days of a very, very close proximity.
0:37.2	We've stayed in touch. And that guy,
0:41.1	that's Pete Mueller. He is an award-winning photographer. He works as a storytelling fellow for
0:48.0	National Geographic. He's been all around the world. He's chronicled everything from the Ebola
0:53.6	outbreak in Sierra Leone to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, conflict zones in Africa in the Middle East.
1:01.1	And he had a documentary on the early days of COVID in New York City called The First Wave, and it was shortlisted for an Academy Award.
1:09.5	And, and he has been studying and documenting modern forms of masculinity.
1:17.8	Fascinating guy.
1:18.9	And, and he came to Man Camp, a thing that I run with some other dudes.
1:25.6	It's had about 20,000 guys go through it. He came to it last
1:30.5	year and it was awesome, just awesome spending time with him. I thought, man, so much of what
1:37.3	makes a good podcast, just having a good conversation with somebody who you like, you love
1:41.5	being around. And so welcome to the aggressive life, Pete Mueller.
1:46.7	Thanks a lot, Frank.
1:48.0	It's nice to see you, as they say, in this age.
1:51.6	Yeah, no kidding.
1:52.8	Like, I'm thinking myself, man, this is how fast life is gone.
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