Episode Notes 

Photojournalist Preston Gannaway won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetic photography documenting a New Hampshire family coping with a young mother's illness and death. Remember Me is her breathtakingly graceful and intimate chronology of EJ over the intervening years since he lost his mother at 3 years of age. Gannaway masterfully transcends one family's journey to speak to the universal touchstones of life, love, loss, and the abiding ties that bind.

In this conversation, Preston discusses, among other things:

Observation as a superpower

Finding a photograph

Parameters of storytelling 

Intuitiveness and nuance

Consent & collaboration

Photojournalism

Documentary tradition

Community journalism

A prologue of images

Hindsight

Capturing presence in the absence

Taking away the ‘fever pitch’

Defining objectivity

An empathic eye

Editing and sequencing

Funding projects

Big, weighty things