ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 4月20日 14時34分

The most beautiful gift in life and photography is when someone believes in you. Few photo editors have taught me more about myself, and storytelling, than Sarah Leen @roseleen. Before becoming director of photography at National Geographic magazine, we worked together on 4 or more stories for @ナショナルジオグラフィック. Sarah had an idea for Bedlam in The Blood, a global look at our world’s greatest killer. It was a marvelous, crazy idea…photograph a group portrait of 3000 people, to illustrate the number of deaths every day from malaria. I’m not really a portrait photographer. Meaning, a set up portrait photographer. Imagining the heaviness of photographing not only one person. Three thousand! We thought a lot about this and found a possible solution...rent a crane, drive it to an event, and ask through a megaphone if everyone would kindly gather briefly for a portrait. Sure enough one late afternoon, there was a campaign rally outside Lusaka for an upcoming town election. After all the speeches were made, I was warmly offered the microphone. With a welcoming crowd of more than 3000, all fully bewildered why some long haired fellow was perched high upon a rickety crane, they gathered for the largest portrait I had ever done. This photograph never ran...we counted once in DC during editing, we were short by a few hundred people. What I did learn from this experience is never underestimate the need and beauty of being supported. Lifted, both physically and spiritually. Given strength to believe anything is possible. 2600+ beautiful people kindly patient, looking to the sky. Thankful it was overwhelmingly, more than one.
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