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Annie smiled. That was the right question.

Annie Leibovitz stood at the front of the dimly lit studio, her silhouette sharp against the softbox glow. Twenty students, their cameras dangling from necks like nervous ticks, sat in a half-circle on metal folding chairs. watch annie leibovitz teaches photography course

"You're ready," she said. "Not because you know light. But because you know how to wait for it." Annie smiled

She pulled up a contact sheet from 1975, the Rolling Stones tour. "Look at Charlie Watts here," she said, tapping a tiny frame. "He's not playing. He's waiting. That's the photo. The waiting." " she said

"Turn off your gear," she said, her voice gravelly, unhurried. "We don't start with the shutter. We start with the seeing."