Scott Pelley's first love: taking pictures
For this week’s story, “The Slave Ship,” Scott Pelley traveled to Mozambique Island, where he took an interest in a type of traditional sailboat, known as a dhow, still used there today.
“I shot a whole series of pictures just of the dhow sails in various shapes against the blue sky, which is amusing I’m sure only to me,” he tells Overtime Editor Ann Silvio.
Lucky enough to travel the globe for his work, he says, he always brings his camera along. He tells Silvio that his uncle, a wedding photographer in Dallas, gave him a 35-millimeter SLR when he was 13 years old. It was love at first sight.
“Everything in my life has been about photography ever since that moment, and it was that experience that brought me to journalism,” he says. “I’m a failed still photographer.”
This video was originally published on November 1, 2015