In this July 2024 interview, the brilliant, popular originator of what Der Spiegel magazine dubbed “art-journalism,” Molly Crabapple explained that if she carried a chip on her shoulder it was not anger at some past injustice she suffered, but for other people.

Seeking to give a voice to victimized, stigmatized, and oppressed, Crabapple, has sympathetically portrayed the Occupy Wall Street protesters, sex workers, taxi drivers whose lives were destroyed by predatory lenders, the tortured inmates of Guantanamo, the Syrian peoples warred upon by their own government, and the Ukrainians attacked by Russia. Combining image and text enables her to convey truths with an immediacy and accessibility that neither can do alone.

Here, in this art-filled video, she narrates her first-hand experiences in war zones, with refugee children and struggling adults, as well as her observations on capturing beauty, the advantages of a pad and pen over a camera, and using art to earn a living as well as to circumvent censors.