Love of Visual Storytelling In early March, we gathered in Mérida, Mexico, coming from around the globe, driven by our love of visual storytelling. For me, teaching a workshop with National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer was a bright point, because I knew I would learn from witnessing how he worked with photographers and be moved by guiding photographers as their stories evolved. In the first few days, I got to know personalities, to see how Alex from the US and Susann from Germany had academic minds that were drawn towards long interviews while Helen from England was simply thrilled to be working on a project about cenotes in which she could spend her days taking underwater photos.