DIANA WALKER

December 2002
		Time magazine White House photographer Diana Walker answers your questions about her unique career and experiences documenting the public and private aspects of the presidency.

Introduction What is your favorite photograph in your book? What equipment have you found most rewarding in your work (camera, format, and film)? What kind of camera did you use and what length of lenses (zoom and fixed)? Did you find that one presidential administration was more open and warm with the press corps than another? Did the presidents behave the same in private as they did in public?   Online NewsHour Special Report: Diana Walker: Twenty Years Covering the Presidency Media Watch	For the past 20 years, Diana Walker has captured many of the White House's behind-the-scenes moments, enjoying extraordinary access to the nation's chief executives and documenting administrations from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton. In her new book, Public and Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency, Walker shares her unique experiences behind the camera, offering a rare glimpse into what private life is like inside the White House. In 1990, Walker received a first prize award from World Press Photo for her photograph of George Bush with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. Her photographs appear in the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Minneapolis Museum of Art. Diana Walker responds to your questions and comments.