Jo anne mcarthur biography channel

 

We recently connected with Jo-Anne McArthur and have shared our conversation below.

Jo-Anne, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person.

Where do you get your resilience from?

We often think of “thick skin” as an asset. With thick skin, we are better equipped to endure and recover, and not be too easily offended. I agree that being thick-skinned can be very valuable.

But here’s a twist: I think that “thin skin” has its values, too.

Jo-Anne McArthur is a Toronto-based photojournalist and creator of We Animals Media, an ambitious project that documents, through photography, animals in the.

Jo-Anne McArthur is a Toronto-based photojournalist and creator of We Animals Media, an ambitious project that documents, through photography, animals in the.

Photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur documents the relationship between humans and animals in the book 'Hidden.

Award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur has been documenting animal issues around the globe and on all seven continents for over a decade.

Jo-Anne McArthur has been awarded Highly Commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year for her image, “Life and Death in Fur Farming”.

“How to Hide an Empire”: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States.

I’m someone who is very sensitive to the suffering of others. Whether it’s human woes or the suffering of non-human animals and the planet; these things affect me deeply. Like a sponge, my thin skin absorbs others’ hurt.

I’ve come to see this as a superpower. Because I let the suffering of others affect me, over the course of my lifetime I have become someone who t