The Official And Now Love Podcast: www.andnowlove.com Readings Discussed: "Money, Power, Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood" by Brenda Ann Kenneally "Upstate Girls" by Brenda Ann Kenneally For acclaimed documentary photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, love has always been inseparable from truth. In this deeply moving episode, Cynthia Marks welcomes Brenda — a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and an award-winning photojournalist known for living among the families the world has left behind. Rather than observing poverty and hardship from a distance, Brenda moves into the margins and stays for years, decades even, becoming family to the people she photographs. Her images are raw, honest, and profoundly loving — doing much of the same work this show does: stripping away the armor, breaking down the stigma, and helping us see beyond our trauma. Brenda shares her own remarkable journey with striking candor — a childhood without unconditional love, her role as the "family truth teller," early addiction and the long road through recovery, and how a camera became her way into love and connection. Together, she and Cynthia explore how trauma shapes our idea of love, why understanding "how things got that way" is the path to compassion, and why, for Brenda, all that chaos and disorder is love. It's a conversation about service, healing, and the families we create when we finally build the safe space we always needed. This is And Now Love. Listen to your dreams and live from your heart. Please follow, rate, and share the podcast, and pass this episode along to someone who might need it. Follow our socials: Instagram / / andnowlove.podcast Facebook / / And Now Love Podcast Youtube / / @AndNowLovePodcast TikTok / / and.now.love.podc 0:29 — Welcome, Brenda Ann Kenneally 3:13 — Love, Truth, and a Childhood Without Words for It 7:29 — Rebellion, Drinking, and the Family Truth Teller 15:22 — Recovery, AA, and Finding the Camera 24:00 — The Camera as Love and a Way In 29:14 — Not How Things Are, but How They Got That Way 33:00 — What She Wants Us to See in the Photos 37:38 — The Books: Brooklyn, Upstate, and Baby Girl