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"Tell Him He's Right": How a Photographer Learned to Stop Playing God | Rick Smolan Part 2
The story continues. And it gets stranger.
In 1978, Rick Smolan was twenty-eight years old andphotographing an eleven-year-old girl in Korea when her grandmother made an impossible request. Part 1 of this conversation told you what she asked. Part 2 tells you what happened next — including a night in a burning Seoul hotel that neither of them was supposed to survive, and a promise Rick made to God on an eleventh-floor balcony that has shaped the forty-five years since.
From there, Elena and Rick go somewhere harder. They talkabout the shyness that quietly shaped a life spent behind a camera…
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