For Release: March 12, 2007
"What I'm looking for is serendipity," says photographer Bill Luster, The Courier-Journal's Pulitzer Prize - winning photographer. "I'm looking for the surprise. Some days you just fall right into it, and some days you don't. That's what I live for, frankly--that photographic surprise."Luster, whose 38-year career has put him in the presence of presidents, common folk and everything in between, is Bill Goodman's guest on the next edition of One to One , airing Friday, March 30 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2 and Sunday, April 1 at 2/1 p.m. CT on KET1.
He began his career as a 14-year-old correspondent covering the Little League fields in his native Glasgow, Ky., where he found he enjoyed taking pictures more than writing copy. After attending Western Kentucky University to study journalism, he was hired by the Glasgow Daily Times, where he worked until leaving for the Courier.
Along the way Luster's talent drew the attention of larger papers, but the Kentuckian was reluctant to leave his home state. Even National Geographic, where he worked for one year, couldn't lure him away permanently from home and hearth.
In this program, Goodman asks Luster to give the story behind some of the incredible photos he's taken--including Gerald Ford on Air Force One, Ronald Regan in the Oval Office, Martha Layne Collins viewing the Capitol from the air on her last day in office--as well as smaller, favorite subjects such as a family snapping beans in the front yard or children in poverty on the front porch of their home.
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