#58 WHAT IS MY PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY?
Hailey Sadler, an international documentary photographer operates at the intersection of art, journalism, and advocacy.
This is the second part of our two part chat, where we discuss her photographic work spending time with the victims of the Rohingya genocide, the mark it has made on her personally and ask, what difference do our own photographs make to the world around us?
It’s a question I often debate with my two closest photographer friends. Have I changed opinion with anything I have personally shot? Have I created a feeling where someone can emotively connect with the stories I have made behind the lens, so that they may be moved to make a difference themselves? Have I made any difference at all? Really, have I?
Do you have to travel to all corners of the world to make a meaningful photographic contribution? No is the answer, spoiler alert, though today’s episode continues the story of Hailey Sadler’s photography which certainly does talk of one person’s desire to change opinion by making pictures on international assignment. I realise just how movie trailer that statement sounded. But it really is true of Hailey.
I didn’t ask whether telling stories of plight in the face of adversity was her way of building a form of legacy and I wish I had, perhaps another time I will.
Particularly keen to hear your own thoughts about your own pictures on this subject. Send to: studio@photographydaily.show
Photographs copyright Hailey Sadler
