Lindsay Addario
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was like early evening.
There were all these New York bouncers.
There was a perimeter around the set.
And of course, I talked my way on.
If you let me in, I'm going to be famous one day.
I'm going to be a famous photographer.
The guys were like, OK, you're so pathetic.
We're just going to let you inside and good luck.
And so I went on to the press riser and I raised my little camera to my eye and I only had a 50 millimeter lens.
And of course, Madonna was like miles away.
And so I must have looked so exasperated because this guy, one of the journalists, one of the photographers on the press riser had like a 600 millimeter lens.
You know, it was on a tripod.
It looked like a Hubble telescope essentially.
And he looked at me and he goes, hey, kid, put your camera back on my lens and you could take a photo.
And I was so green.
I knew so little about photography that I didn't even realize I can put my Nikon camera back on the back of his giant lens.
And so he helped me and I did it.
And I ran back to the newsroom and I ended up getting the picture on the front page.
And it was a horrible picture, but I got a job.