 Hi everybody. My name is Maryam Intruchpar. I am special collections librarian for rare books and documentary photo archives at Alden Library at the Monsoner for Archives and Special Collections. I'm here with renowned photojournalist Lynn Johnson, also a graduate of the Viscombe program here at Ohio University, and to be recipient this weekend of the University's Medal of Merit. I'm extremely excited to have Lynn here and extremely excited also to be standing in this sort of experimental space that we have created. It is a non-exhibit, an unexhibit, called Lynn Johnson the Photographer's Process, and it's meant to be sort of an interactive journey through Lynn Johnson's process as a photographer, focusing on the pre-digital period and using the materials in her collection, which we hold at the Monsoner, as a way to introduce people both to the sort of intensity of her process and also to the scope and extent of the collection, which we and Lynn very much want, students, faculty and other university community members and researchers in general to be coming to us and using and interacting with the physical materials. So this is meant to sort of start to create that experience for visitors. So that's why we're here. Thank you, Lynn, and welcome. I wonder if you would speak very briefly about your process as it's shown here and how correct or not correct we might be and how it's changed with the shift to digitalism. So, first of all, this exhibit feels very true to my eye. I actually love that you thought about the fact that the cinematography, most of its history, has had a physical form. There's film and chemistry and producing negatives and slides and things. So you can actually see the process here, how it's progressive through the photography and the selection process, the editing process. And then in this case, Maryam has chosen some diaries, books, an actual drawer where the files have a living. And I really think that this part of photography, which I've been shooting for 40 years or so, so this was at least 30 plus of it. And I think the move to digital has changed photography in the other ways. And I actually still, she's a little bit of film now, but I'm listening to digital. What do you miss most about this period and this process? I think I miss the way that film reinforces curiosity, that you have to be in the hot pursuit of the story and the best image to communicate the story and relationship. And then you never really know if you have succeeded. And so you have to choose a role for the deepening of the story. You can't look at the back of the camera and say, because first of all, you don't. You don't know. And second of all, that's not really very effective. We never fully understand another person or another situation. And so film keeps one curious and maybe a little insecure in pursuit of something important. So you just met with the class of students. And one thing I heard you say that really struck me was something about how, is it photography still physical? I wonder if you could just talk a little bit more about that. Well, I think it's one of the art forms, art forms have its physicality, but when you're telling the story of another person, you really have to physically be in your life. And you have to move. You have to look for the best position and hang your perspective. And are you going to choose intimacy? And are you very close to that person? Are you going to choose distance and just connect in the sense of far away? And so as a photographer, in this way I've heard so much of it, how do you do it? I mean, just to never stop. And that's crazy. Do you have time? Well, I have a ton more questions, but hopefully we can speak again later. But we really want people to come to this space. The display will be up for the rest of the semester, early December. And again, the idea is come in, touch things, we have lens, light table, like reproduction slides and negatives. And you're welcome to look at everything, move them around, organize them, how you see fit. And then we also have a response wall. We're looking to have a whiteboard wall in this space. People have already written some pretty amazing things. And we've asked people to respond to what they sort of see and think and feel about lens process, but also to write about your own creative and professional processes. And I know for me, creating this has been a very useful exercise since I really struggle with writing processes. So, thank you for giving us this opportunity. Thank you. Great honor. Thank you.