Kathryn Nicolai
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1,487 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Kathryn Nicolai’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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to position ourselves and our subjects with care.
But flipping back through my old albums, no, I'd say we were just snapping away at whatever caught our eye.
More interested in the novelty of pressing the shutter button, burning out the flash.
winding the wheel than in the finished product.
We were kids, after all.
At some point in my teens, that first camera had been replaced with something a bit more advanced.
The flashbulbs were made obsolete by a permanent flash built into the device after each snap.
There was a high pitched sound as it recharged and wound the film forward.
I remember that it had come with a soft faux leather case and a wrist strap so that you could easily carry it to your next summer concert or holiday tree lighting.
We had no way of knowing when we flipped the camera around and held it at arm's length, finding the shutter with one finger if our faces would even show up in the final shot.
and we had a lot of laughs in the parking lot of drug stores, as we flipped through the finished photos,
sometimes still warm from the processing machine, seeing the faces we'd made, the way the tops of our heads had been cut off in the shot, or our eyes had glowed red in the flash.
I thought about the packets of newly developed photos and how they'd come with negatives cut into strips of four or five pictures each, tucked into a separate slot in the paper folder.
Surely there were lots of those still lingering in hall closets and basement bins to this day, quietly waiting to tell the stories of days out at the beach and fourth of July parades, and first cars and best friends.
Treasure chests waiting to be found by the older versions of the photographers and subjects themselves.
And then by a generation unsure of how any of this technology even worked.
At some point, and I don't remember the exact moment, I'd stopped having a camera that lived separately in its case, and could take photos whenever I liked, see them immediately, and erase them when they overfilled my memory space.
While the way we took and kept photos had changed a lot since I'd burned my fingertips trying to change out those flashbulbs.
I liked that we hadn't outgrown the urge itself.
We still had an instinct to preserve a beautiful moment, to share something with others when it made us smile or took our breath away.
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