A Small Voice Podcast with Maggie Steber

A young Haitian man writhes in grief at the funeral of his mother in the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in November 1987, while his family and friends try to hold him back from the coffin.

Maggie Steber speaks to Ben Smith on A Small Voice Podcast about changing career directions, education, Haiti, the warrior ethos, and her alter ego, “Lily LaPalma.”

“I’m a documentary photographer. I’ve covered everything from war to fashion; i’ve worked for the Geographic; I’ve done all these stories, but I realized a few years ago that I had all of these things stored up in my head and I felt I was experiencing the tyranny of documentary photography, because that’s what described me. But we’re so much more than what we do…”

Take a listen here!