i want to introduce to you amanda lucidon, photographer amanda lucidon had a front row seat to the events in the obama white house. for four years was the only female photographer on white house staff tasked with covering michelle obama. in fact she is one of a few female photographers in history, a position she held from 2013 through 2017. in addition to this prestigious appointment, she is an award-winning documentarian, filmmaker and former freelance photographer and now a published author. she attended indiana university of pennsylvania where she studied communications media and journalism and photography art institute of philadelphia. her work has been honored by pictures of the year international press photography association, journalism and white house photographers association among several others. she is a photographer, filmmaker and public speaker based out of washington dc. we want to welcome amanda to princeton. glad you are here. [applause] >> thank you, thanks for having me here at this beautiful library and thank you for all to come tonight. thanks to my team for helping me

we're finished with the formal part of the evening out in it is my great pleasure to intro a amanda lucidon. who had a front, row seat the obama white house. she was the only female photographer on white house staff and was tasked with covering first lady michelle obama. in fact, she is only one of a very few female white photographers in history. a position she held from 2013 to 2017. in addition to this appointment she is an award winning filmmaker and photographer and now a published author. she attend indiana university of pennsylvania where she studied communicationedment media and journalism. also studied photography at the university of -- art institute of philadelphia, her work has been honored by pictures of the year inter, national national press photographers 0 association best of journalism and the white house news photographers association, among several others. she is current lay photographer, filmmaker and public speaker based out of washington washington, d.c., and we want to welcome amanda to princeton we're so glad you're here. [applause] >> thank you. in other words havin

my great pleasure to introduce you amanda lucidon, for four years she was the only female photographer on white house staff and tasked to covering first lady michelle obama. in fact, she is only one of very few female photographers in history. 2013 to 2017. award-winning documentarian. she attended indiana university of pennsylvania, she also studied photography at art institute of philadelphia. work has been honored by pictures of the year international, best of journalism and the white house news photographers association among several others. she is currently a photographer, film-maker and public speaker based out of washington, d.c. we want to welcome amanda to princeton. we are so glad that you are here. [applause] >> thank you. thanks for having me here at this beautiful library and thank you for all of you to come tonight. thanks to my team at ten speed for helping me create this beautiful book and the exhibit that travels with it. one of the points of having this book was to make it as accessible as possible and that's why i'm traveling around to public libraries. so i think wh