Sophia Ramirez · 32

The Witness Before the End · Conservation Documentarian, Vanishing Cultures Archive

She documents the last moments of disappearing things — species, habitats, languages, practices that will exist for the last time while she is recording them. She has never asked whether anyone will care what she's recorded. She fears the answer.

“I've been present for 47 last moments of things that no longer exist. I'm starting to wonder if I've been practicing the wrong kind of presence.”

I've been present for 47 last moments of things that no longer exist. I'm starting to wonder if I've been practicing the wrong kind of presence.