Award-winning photojournalist Brian Palmer reflects on the lessons he has learned during his long and successful career, dwelling on the importance of vulnerability and being a great listener.

Brian Palmer is a Peabody Award–winning journalist based in Richmond, Virginia. During his 30-year career he has photographed conflict, politics, activism, daily life, and more around the world and in his own backyard. His photos have appeared in the New York Times, Buzzfeed, Narrative.ly; his writing in Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, and the Nation; and audio on Reveal. His documentary, Full Disclosure, which appeared in 2011 on The Documentary Channel, along with several magazine articles and photo exhibitions, grew out of three media embeds in Iraq with U.S. Marines. In 2019, along with collaborator, Seth Wessler, he received a Peabody for Reveal radio story "Monumental Lies.”

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