“I had just got done with the long workday and I got a text from a Times reporter who was like, ‘Hey, you need to tweet this photo out yourself because other people are like tweeting it and not crediting you,’” she said. Soon, she said, others were uploading it to Twitter, often without citing her as the photographer. Maney shared the photo on her Instagram account, where it quickly began gaining traction. “And during these hearings, it was the first time in my career where I worked alongside more than one other Black photographer, which is major to be able to share that space with people who understand the Black experience.” press pool, I am the only Black woman or Black photographer in general,” Ms. As the first Black photography fellow for The Times, she said felt it was important “to provide the representation” at the hearings. Maney, who is from the San Francisco Bay Area, said that when President Biden announced Judge Jackson as his official Supreme Court nominee four weeks ago, she knew she wanted to cover the confirmation process. It was just this look of such pride and admiration.” “And then I noticed how proud her daughter was of her, and it gave me chills when I saw this look that her daughter gave her. “I just remember seeing Judge Jackson smiling a lot, and I think she was receiving compliments and praise,” Ms. Maney was standing on a step stool on the left side of the courtroom behind the Senate, cater-cornered from Judge Jackson and her family members. The real subject is her teenage daughter Leila Jackson, who is seated behind the Supreme Court nominee and beaming with pride. In it, Judge Jackson is smiling in the foreground but out of focus.
You are a great American.”īut few images from this week’s hearings have resonated as widely as one photograph Ms. Out of the hearings have come countless powerful pictures of Judge Jackson - exhibiting stoicism in the face of aggressive questioning from Republican senators, wiping away a single tear as Cory Booker, the only Black senator on the 22-member Judiciary Committee, delivered words of reverence and encouragement: “You have earned this spot. “I instantly posted it because I knew what I felt when I took the photo, and I really gravitated toward it.” Maney, a photography fellow for The New York Times, said in a phone interview. “I did not expect it to gain that much traction,” Ms. What she did not know was that she would create one of the event’s most widely shared images. When Sarahbeth Maney was tapped to photograph the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, she knew she could be witnessing history.
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