Our Story

Three legendary photojournalists, who for decades have travelled the world, reporting not just from their hometowns, but their homelands, and conflict zones around the world, sit down to discuss not just the challenges behind their award-winning stories, but also their efforts to tell the stories of today. From border challenges, to protests that touch upon every conceivable issue, to coverage of the Middle East, award-winning photojournalists Yunghi Kim, Carol Guzy, and Paula Bronstein talk about what motivates and moves them, and how they work to render the facts and dynamics of a story without an agenda.

When all of them began their careers, they were working for daily newspapers, during the era of film cameras with no autofocus.  There were no cell phones, no immediate capability to transmit anywhere with a simple click. Frequently, there was no communication for outside support, leaving them, often, on their own.

Working against an east coast deadline, they had to process film in the field, scan and transmit.  They were limited both in the number of images they could take, process and transmit on any given day.  What takes seconds today took hours then. And it required a different level of planning and working, factoring processing and transmission into your shooting day.

When there were stories to cover, the indomitable three would always find a way to get there. Sometimes their papers would send them; but if not, they would take vacation time, often paying their own expenses to boot.

But ultimately what mattered most was delivering the story, distilling it to a handful of images, sometimes, to just a single one.  Then and now, this is where they excel.

As technology evolved, they grew with it.  But technology wasn’t the story, it just extended the deadline. All the while, these women stuck to their core beliefs:  journalistic integrity, uncompromising quality, and a never-quit determination propelling them past transmission, past cutline writing, until the job was done.