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Thank you

May 10, 2008

I was recently quoted in a press release that was sent out to 135 media outlets. To say I was mildly embarrassed is an understatement. I don’t want to be famous or have a spotlight shined on me. I have never been good with words and sometimes what comes out of my mouth isn’t really what I mean. For me to be quoted in writing is just as bad as to have my photo taken, or be seen on TV, which I also hate. Is it then a bit ironic that I ask to take people’s pictures for a living?

As a photojournalist I’m not shy about asking people to open up their lives to me and the world. I have always been grateful when people let me into their lives, for a minute, a week or a month. Yet working at a daily newspaper, running from assignment to assignment, I sometimes forget that it is a gift when people share their lives with us. With daily deadlines and routines it can be easy to lose sight of this, turning from asking, to expecting or demanding, access.

So with that I would like to say thank you.

Thank you Lisa. Thank you Anna. For letting me become a part of your lives this spring, for letting me shove a camera in your face when you were tired, or crying, or trying to sleep. Thank you for allowing me to tell your stories—and they are good stories—to the world.

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Written by Liz Margerum · Filed Under Español, People 

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