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He went to document their story. He ended up becoming part of it.   👉 Natasha — born Un-Sok Kim — was one of 40,000 children fathered by American GIs across Southeast Asia and then abandoned. Rick Smolan spent six months documenting her life and the lives of five other children across the region. But something about Natasha was different.   🌐 What happened in that village in Korea in 1978 is one of the most quietly extraordinary stories of human connection you'll hear. And Natasha's story doesn't end here (Part 1 of the episode); it continues in Part 2, out in two weeks. This episode is so rich, we split it into two parts so you can take your time with it.   🎙️ EP. 54 — Part 1 | Elena Petrova sits down with Rick Smolan, New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of the Day in the Life book series, former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer, and CEO of Against All Odds Productions — whose global photography projects have featured hundreds of the world's leading photographers and appeared on the covers of Fortune, Time, and GEO. More than a million people have watched his Natasha's Story talk on TED.com. His National Geographic story about Robyn Davidson's 2,000-mile camel trek across the Australian outback was adapted into the 2014 feature film "Tracks," with Adam Driver portraying Smolan.   We also talk about: ✨ How getting rejected by Swedish girls in a Madrid post office queue turned into the friendship that made Natasha's adoption possible ✨ Why Robyn Davidson's crossing of the Australian outback alone with four camels and a dog was the story that turned Rick from a photographer into a publisher ✨ Why the same feeling that kept Rick glued to the internet for six hours in 1994 hit him again the first time he opened an AI tool, and why the people building it are quietly giving it a 10 to 15% chance of ending civilization  ✨ Why he spent two years building a book about a century of American social progress, and what it means that so much of it is now being actively reversed   🎧 This episode is so rich, we split it into two parts so you can take your time with it. Part 1 is out now: 🔴 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/d4RFVHkp 🟢 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ekuHi ⚫ Apple Podcast: https://shorturl.at/qbciY 🔵 Amazon Music: https://shorturl.at/oGVu4   #ConnectedConversations #Photography #HumanConnection #Storytelling #AIcreativity

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