How Photojournalist Sarahbeth Maney Captured History
Latina to Latina
LWC Studios
4.7 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm saving a special moment in this introduction for my daughters, Talia and Layla. |
| 0:19.3 | Girls, I know it has not been easy, |
| 0:21.6 | as I've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood. |
| 0:27.6 | And I fully admit that I did not always get the balance right. |
| 0:32.6 | But I hope that you've seen that with hard work, determination, and love, it can be done. |
| 0:41.6 | That was Judge Katanji Brown Jackson at our confirmation hearing to become the first black woman |
| 0:46.8 | nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court. For me and for lots of working moms, that moment |
| 0:53.0 | resonated so deeply. |
| 0:55.2 | And then like Sol for our soul came what might be the most enduring image of the hearing. |
| 1:00.6 | Jackson's 17-year-old daughter, Leila, gazing adoringly at her mother, who like so many women |
| 1:06.2 | of color was blazing the trail of the first and the only. |
| 1:10.6 | That photo was made by Sarah Beth Maney, a photojournalist at the New York Times, |
| 1:14.7 | and Sarah Beth is here to talk about how it happened, what it meant to her, |
| 1:18.0 | and why who captures history matters. |
| 1:26.8 | Sarah Beth, hello. Hi, thank you for having me. Do you remember the first time that someone put a camera in your hands? |
| 1:35.8 | The first camera I remember having was this pink Sony point and shoot camera. And I think I got that camera in like third or the fourth grade because I |
| 1:46.6 | kept asking my mom for a camera for Christmas. But I just remember taking my camera to school with me |
| 1:52.6 | all the time and photographing my friends during recess and going to like slumber parties and |
| 1:58.4 | documenting the whole night. |
| 2:05.6 | And my father who passed away when I was 10, he always had a camera on him. |
| 2:07.9 | So it was sort of in my DNA. |
| 2:15.6 | Can you tell me as someone who has only consumed but never produced this, |
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