Interview with Stacia Spragg-Braude
There’s an interview with photographer and farmer Stacia Spragg-Braude at Matthew Ratajczak’s blog, Eat The Darkness.
Spragg was a photographer at the Albuquerque Tribune but left the paper well before it closed. While interning there in 1996 she met and became friends with the Begay’s, a Navajo family living on a reservation in Arizona. She began to photograph the family on her own time, and a collection of the photos have been made into a book titled “To Walk In Beauty: A Navajo Family’s Journey Home.”
She talks about her roots in photojournalism, how she’s handled some of the changes that life has thrown her way, her connection with the Begay family and with the resulting photographs, about becoming a farmer, and the process of building a book.
“For me, it was the chance to weave together my images with the Navajos’ words to create a narrative poem of their journey as I saw it. I liked the idea of putting that poem down permanently in a book, which has a very different feel than in other media such as the internet, magazines, newspapers, museum exhibits. And that mission statement dictated how I edited.” — Stacia Spragg-Braude.