![]() ![]() “It made me feel seen, it made me feel represented, and that’s why I took the photo,” Maney said.Īnd now, here’s what’s happening across California: While she couldn’t know how much the photo would resonate with the public when she snapped it, Maney certainly did know at the time how much it meant to herself. “She congratulated me, which I thought was a huge honor because I felt like I should be congratulating her,” Maney says. Judge Jackson told her she was happy to see the response to the photo. Maney also got to briefly speak to the woman herself. “She also said she read some of the articles about me and that she really admired me as well, which just made me smile from ear to ear,” Maney says. The message was gratifying, but it was also a relief because she wondered how the 17-year-old would feel about all the attention created by the image. Maney has since received a message from Leila over Instagram thanking her for taking the “touching” photo. “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. Maney has a guess as to why the image received so much attention. The photo has since been retweeted over 16,000 times and received over 119,000 likes. I knew that I wanted to be in the room to document confirmation hearings from my perspective,” Maney told me. And for that reason, I knew my voice was important. I never work alongside any other Black women photojournalists. ![]() Similar to my time in California, in D.C. “When I found out that President Biden was nominating a Black woman, I knew that it was something I wanted to cover. pool of photographers would not be very diverse, so her presence would be valuable. Supreme Court, and Maney was the first Black photography fellow for the East Coast paper. It was a personal assignment to her Jackson was the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Maney raised her hand to be one of the photographers documenting Justice Jackson’s historic moment. She began a yearlong fellowship at the New York Times in June. ![]() She’s also served as a photo intern at the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. Maney, who is from the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from San Francisco State University in 2019. Sarahbeth Maney recently received a lot of attention online for a photo she took during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. ![]()
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