“The only way you can change the world is with stories,” says Cristina Mittermeier in the opening moments of her new National Georgraphic documentary, Win or Die.
“The bigger your legend becomes the easier it is to share the story. People want to hear it, they want to listen.”
Considered one of the most influential conservation photographers of our time, with 1.5 million followers on Instagram, the ocean photographer is using her renown not just to tell stories, but to open viewers’ eyes to the environmental emergency happening in our oceans. As her partner in the profession and in life Paul Nicklen puts it, they’re aiming to build a movement of people who care from a photograph.
Photographer is a stunning six-episode docuseries from award-winning filmmakers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin of Free Solo acclaim which premieres on March 18. Each episode follows the journey of an iconic photographer in a different environment – Dan Winters in Iceland’s fjords, Anand Varma examining spiders with orange armpit hairs through a microscope and Krystle Wright chasing tornadoes in West Texas.
