According to Commercial Appeal, Ernest C. Withers, the person who shared and documented some of America’s most tragic/glorious moments during the civil rights movement was a federal mole. It isn’t surprising now considering just how much access this one documentary photographer received. Ernest Withers captured moments such as the Little Rock 9, the Emmett Till murder and up to Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis. Ernest did this simply by gaining everyone’s trust and making his way into some of the most influential, mundane and political circles.

I kind of parallel this to when I see ‘backstage’/'candid’ moments captured by a ‘rock’ photographer. I get so lost in the romanticism and think to myself, “how on earth can one person …