00:00Well, I mean, I have to be honest, I have continued to use the Rollerflex camera because I had to get so good at using it and recreating those images, as you say.
00:11And it was very important to me that that camera never, ever felt like a prop.
00:16It had to really feel like something I was doing with my eyes closed.
00:19It had to feel like an extension of my arms, something that was both incredibly present, but also just disappeared.
00:26And the beauty of the Rollerflex camera is that because it sits below and you have to look down at the image in order to take it, it means that Lee was able to really lock eyes with the person she was photographing in order to truly capture their truth, what's going on, not only in their face, but in their head, in their heart, emotionally.
00:50The ability to connect with people was really her superpower and she did that as a photographer as well as in life.
00:59And so I was most inspired, I think, by her capacity to really see people and really connect in an empathetic and compassionate way.
01:08And the power, of course, of photography and storytelling in documenting the truth, in being that visual voice, really, for the victims of conflict, was something I was just, I was so profoundly inspired by and has really stayed with me.
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