When a life looks like a movie

Hello, Oblivious Witnesses!

If you have your hands free while you’re listening to this episode, head over to Instagram and check out the beautiful work of documentary and portrait photographer Lyra Lintern. Lyra’s stunning photographs give us an insight into the way she sees the world and the way she lives her life, and are the perfect visual accompaniment to her words.

Lyra Lintern is an anthropology graduate whose interest in people and how they live shines through in everything she does. Having spent the covid years living in China with her family, Lyra took advantage of the country’s closed borders, travelling domestically and documenting China and its people at an exceptional moment in their history.

Lyra tells us, in this interview, about the first time she left her native France, and about the years she spent studying and living in Canada. She tells us the incredibly romantic story of how she met her husband David, and describes, poetically, the way she feels about her home nation of France now that she has lived away from there for more than half a lifetime.

Please enjoy this conversation with the wonderful Lyra Lintern.

And I’d love to hear from you too!

If anything in this episode inspires you to see the world a little differently or to expand your own horizons in any way, I’d so love to hear from you. Please drop a note in the comments, or send me a message about a story you’d like to share.

And if you’d like to talk about your own experiences of living away from your home nation, please let me know!

Let’s come together to share stories of the things we’ve witnessed, so that we can learn from one another and see that, despite the differences in the details of our stories, we’re all global citizens of one beautiful and intricately interconnected world.

With love

Michelle x

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MUSIC: Defining Life, by Bill Conn

PHOTOGRAPHY: Michelle Neeling

Written and produced by Michelle Neeling

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