Photo Session
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
When a reporter’s love story hits a dead end, she turns to a Palestinian couple for answers. A pretty ugly Photoshop project explodes and a man comes out to his mother repeatedly.
STORIES
Photo Session
When a reporter’s love story hits a dead end, she turns to a Palestinian couple for answers.
Thank you Rayan, Samih, and Anna!
Two years after their engagement, Rayan and Samih got married and moved to a flat just outside the camp and they still work there as journalists. Our storyteller Anna and her boyfriend got engaged shortly after she moved to Iraq to be with him. Read these two stories and many more in Anna Lekas Miller’s book Love Across Borders.
Produced by John Fecile. Original score by Clay Xavier. Artwork by Teo Ducot. Translation by Naziha Baassiri. Voice acting by Snap producer John Fecile and his wife Sarah Fecile.
Make Me Beautiful
Esther asked 50 Photoshop artists to make her beautiful. Things got pretty ugly.
Thanks Esther for sharing this story!
Esther Honig’s photo project still gets re-published to this day. It’s appeared in books for English language learners. The University of Cambridge put it in a textbook chapter about beauty. Her photos have been printed and hung on the walls of the Museum of Tomorrow in Brazil and The National Science and Media Museum in the UK. Check out her TED talk about this project.
Esther is currently a producer at Storycorps, and has also produced two Snap episodes, “White Gold Fever” and “Map to the Disappeared.”
Produced by John Fecile. Original score by Dirk Schwartzhoff.s
When Are You Going To Get Married?
For Ben Nakamura, coming out gay to his parents was not exactly like ripping off a band-aid…
Produced by Liz Jones. Sound design by Renzo Gorrio.
Season 15 - Episode 7
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios. |
| 0:08.0 | A young correctional officer. |
| 0:10.0 | He said it was the most dangerous prison in California. |
| 0:13.2 | Forced to make a choice. |
| 0:15.4 | Fulfill his oath or back his fellow officers. |
| 0:18.6 | Recognize the badge of my office. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Suki Lewis from KQED Podcasts comes on our watch season two new fulsome a story |
| 0:28.2 | about who gets hurt when the system that promises to keep us safe is bent on protecting itself. |
| 0:34.0 | Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | We have these categories, these lines, black, white, Hindu Muslim, rich poor, documented, |
| 0:49.7 | undocumented. We even got speeches with stars and |
| 0:53.7 | sneakers with no stars. |
| 0:56.3 | You know where we can do terrible things to the people |
| 0:59.6 | on the other side of the line we draw. This is true, but it's also true that you can do whatever you want to do, |
| 1:10.0 | start a war, pass a law, |
| 1:12.5 | build a wall, whatever you want to separate folks. |
| 1:16.7 | And I absolutely, positively, 100% guarantee |
| 1:21.2 | that somehow, some way, two people are going to look over this barrier |
| 1:28.6 | you've constructed and despite everything they are going to decide that the person they need more than anyone else |
| 1:36.0 | in the universe is over there on the other side. It's a law of nature and now I can't promise a happy ending. |
| 1:50.0 | I don't know if everything's going to work out. I just know that someone's going to try. |
| 1:57.0 | And when they try, because of the age we're in, they don't want to take a picture to document the occasion. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Snap Judgment and PRX, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Snap Judgment and PRX and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.