Name: 【TED】Rick Smolan: A girl, a photograph, a homecoming !
Uploaded: 2013-03-14T09:31:49.000Z
Duration: 25 min 7 s
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but, in fact, there's somebody in the audience

who's never heard this story -- in front of an audience -- before,

so I'm a little more nervous than I normally am telling this story.

I used to be a photographer for many years.

In 1978, I was working for Time magazine,

children who had been fathered by American GIs

all over Southeast Asia, and then abandoned --

I had never heard the word Amerasian before.

I spent a few days photographing children in different countries,

and like a lot of photographers and a lot of journalists,

I always hope that when my pictures were published,

they might actually have an effect on a situation,

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and I was so unhappy with the article that ran afterwards,

that I decided I would take six months off.

I decided I would find six children in different countries,

and actually go spend some time with the kids,

and try to tell their story a little bit better

than I thought I had done for Time magazine.

I was looking for children who hadn't been photographed before,

that they worked with a lot of Americans who were

donating money to help some of these kids.

And a man told me, who ran the Pearl Buck Foundation in Korea,

that there was a young girl, who was 11 years old, being raised by her grandmother.

And the grandmother had never let any Westerners ever see her.

Every time any Westerners came to the village, she hid the girl.

And of course, I was immediately intrigued.

I saw photographs of her, and I thought I wanted to go.

And the guy just told me, "There's no way. This grandmother won't even -- you know,

there's no way she's ever going to let you meet this girl that's she's raising."

I took a translator with me, and went to this village,

found the grandmother, sat down with her.

And to my astonishment, she agreed to let me

And I was paying for this myself, so I asked the translator

if it would be OK if I stayed for the week.

The family had a small shed on the side of the house,

so I said, "Could I sleep in my sleeping bag in the evenings?"

And I just told the little girl, whose name was Hyun-Sook Lee,

that if I ever did anything to embarrass her --

she didn't speak a word of English, although she looked very American --

she could just put up her hand and say, "Stop,"

So there I was, I couldn't speak a word of Korean,

and this is the first night I met Hyun-Sook.

Her mother was not raising her, her grandmother was raising her.

how in love the two of these people were.

The grandmother was incredibly fond, deeply in love with this little girl.

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors,

so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.

I had photographed, as I said, a lot of these kids.

Hyun-Sook was in fact the fifth child that I found to photograph.

And almost universally, amongst all the kids,

they were really psychologically damaged by

having been made fun of, ridiculed, picked on and been rejected.

And what struck me immediately in meeting Hyun-Sook

how happy she seemed to be in her own skin.

because I'm going to show you another picture later,

but you can see how much she looks like her grandmother,

This is the first morning I stayed with her.

This is the morning assembly outside her school.

And I noticed that she was clowning around.

she'd be the first person to raise her hand.

or anything like the other children that I'd photographed.

Again, the first one to go to the blackboard to answer questions.

Getting in trouble for whispering into her best friend's ears

And one of the other things that I said to her through the translator --

again, this thing about saying stop -- was to not pay attention to me.

And so, she really just completely ignored me most of the time.

I noticed that at recess, she was the girl

who picked the other girls to be on her team.

It was very obvious, from the very beginning, that she was a leader.

And that's North Korea up along the hill.

They would actually cover the windows every night, so that light couldn't be seen,