Topeka - Museum After Hours - Kansas Museum of History
Wall Walks: Insider Pool at National Geographic
Settle in for an evening exploring the haunted realms and fable characters of National Geographic. After fifty plus stories for National Geographic Jim Richardson mastered the drill pretty well — besides knowing where the skeletons were buried. From writing the story proposals that began each coverage to the legendary wall walks where covens of editors lurked hoping to poke holes in photographic coverages (and by so doing gain pages for their own projects) Jim will dish the dirt as well as offering some actual serious observations. No other publication lavished so much money and resources on photography as National Geographic. (And photographers knew their career there could survive one mediocre story, but not two.) Here’s what it took to survive a National Geographic for 35 years. The museum will be open during this time and admission will be free. The program starts at 6:30 p.m. This presentation will be offered in a hybrid format, with options to view it on Zoom, livestream it on the KSHS YouTube channel, or attend in-person at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka.
