#LeicaConversations - A Photographic Memory: Rachel Elizabeth Seed and Bill Shapiro

When photographer and journalist Sheila Turner-Seed died at 42, she left behind her intimate interviews with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Don McCullin, and Lisette Model, among others. In this special Mother’s Day conversation, her daughter, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, will talk about the film she’s making about the mother she never knew, and what she’s learned about her from listening to the long-lost and rarely heard interviews. In conversation with Bill Shapiro, the former Editor-in-Chief of LIFE magazine.
Originally from London, Rachel Elizabeth Seed is a Brooklyn-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography and writing. She is a 2020 Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Pictures, NYFA NYC Women’s Fund, and National Arts Club fellow, and a 2019 Sundance Edit & Story Lab fellow and Sundance Documentary Fund recipient for her feature film, A Photographic Memory. Rachel’s work has also been supported by Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council On the Arts, the Maine Media Workshops, the Roy W. Dean grant and IFP.
Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, Rachel's photography was included in the International Center of Photography’s exhibit on Hurricane Sandy, Rising Waters, and she was a cameraperson on several award-winning feature documentaries including Sacred, by Academy-Award winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon. Her writing has been published by No Film School, the Sundance Institute, and Talkhouse and she is Executive Director and Co-founder of the Brooklyn Documentary Club, a thriving NYC-based filmmaker collective with 250+ members.
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Bill Shapiro served as the Editor-in-Chief of LIFE, the legendary photo magazine; LIFE’s relaunch in 2004 was the largest in Time Inc. history. Later, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of LIFE.com, which won the 2011 National Magazine Award for digital photography. Bill is the author of several books, among them Gus & Me, a children’s book he co-wrote with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. In 2018, he published What We Keep, which was recently turned into a streaming series with Cynthia Erivo serving as executive producer. A fine-art photography curator for New York galleries and a consultant to photographers, he also serves on the Art Advisory Board for the SXSW festival. He writes about photography for the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Vogue, and Esquire, among others. You can find him on Instagram @billshapiro.

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