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Of the hundreds of interviews we've shared with you over the years, we've heard different stories of how people became photographers.

Some of them studied in college and started when they were relatively young.

For others, it became a second career after quitting or losing a job.

But Sean Tucker is, I think, the only photographer we've had on the show,

whose previous career was that of a priest. For about a decade, he was a man of the cloth,

but eventually he was unceremoniously removed from the priesthood. And it happened not because of a

loss of faith or some moral failing, but rather

a growing dissatisfaction with how the church's calling to serve people spiritually didn't always

extend itself to serving their needs in the real world. It kind of came to a head in about 2008,

actually. There were very serious xenophobic

attacks in South Africa where local South Africans were attacking immigrants coming in from

Somalia and Angola and Zimbabwe coming to look for work because they felt that they were coming

to take jobs.

And people were dying in the streets, you know, they were having their shops set on fire and they were being beaten to death. And this is the time I was working for church in Cape Town.

And I said to the church, we need to do something. We need to get down there now. And I said,

you know, let's take the bus and at least just get people out and they said no we

can't do that because you know we've been given this bus and we have to be good stewards of what God's

given us etc so myself and a couple of guys we stole the bus and we took it down anyway and we

bust people out for the whole day and we took them to schools because schools were the only people who were taking these people and

sheltering them. And I'm, what the hell am I doing working for an institution that says they care

about the poor and the outcast and society? But then when the pinch comes to shove, they're like

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