Sarahbeth Maney, who is from the Bay Area, captured a viral photo of Supreme Court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings.
recently received a lot of attention online for a photo she took during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
“When I found out that President Biden was nominating a Black woman, I knew that it was something I wanted to cover. Similar to my time in California, in D.C. I never work alongside any other Black women photojournalists. And for that reason, I knew my voice was important. I knew that I wanted to be in the room to document confirmation hearings from my perspective,” Maney told me.Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on March 21.
“It was really special and a really big honor to make a photo that resonated with so many people on an intimate level because we don’t usually see these intimate photos coming out of political coverage,” she says.
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