When people zig, you zag...

The very first time I heard of Marcus Yam was in my college newspaper. There was a story about this international student who had studied aerospace engineering just a few years before me. He had found his calling while covering engineering students' projects for the local chapter of AIAA, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Eventually, his calling took him to what he does today: photography as an insanely talented roving foreign correspondent for the LA Times. 

Once an aerospace engineering student at UB and today a 3 times recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his photography, rewarding how he tells stories that impacted the past decade, raw and urgent images that capture history, humanity and society, Marcus follows his guts and says no. Ultimately what truly fascinates me is how leading his life this way took him where he is and to what he does today: telling powerful stories through images. Marcus is passionate about telling stories, about showing us the world as he sees and lives it, and … well, he does it so well.

So I decided to reach out to him as I wanted to know how a once international student who studied aerospace got to live his life as he puts it "as freely as possible", to living his dream. His new American dream.

Episode cover picture by Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times.

Follow Marcus Yam's work on his website: https://www.marcusyam.com/

An episode by Anne-Fleur Andrle, mixing and sound design by Alice Krief.

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