rapist. women were coming forward, publishing in the washington post, huffington post, in press conferences. almost every day there was a bit of news about cosby. jody saw if you could get them all together in one place and take a picture there would be a lot of power in having all of the women standing together. strength in numbers. what struck you as you went through the process. the extensive interviews. you can read and watch them. they were all done this is important individually. it s not like a group of people so details right. these are individual people telling their story. the similarities were striking. the alleged tins, had things in common. a lot of the women were aspiring models or actresses. young, new to their careers. one was 17 at the time. teenagers. they said, my agent told me that
almost every day there was a bit of news about cosby. jody saw if you could get them all together in one place and take a picture there would be a lot of power in having all of the women standing together. strength in numbers. what struck you as you went through the process. the extensive interviews. you can read and watch them. they were all done this is important individually. it s not like a group of people so details right. these are individual people telling their story. the similarities were striking. the rayalleged tins, had things in common. a lot of the women were aspiring models or actresses. young, new to their careers. one was 17 at the time. teenagers. they said my agent told me that bill cosby wants to mentor me. you show up here do a line reading and in many cases they said their drinks were drugged,
it s a magazine-wide effort. it was. it was then taken down by some hacker attack today? our website was down. it s back up now. you can read it in print and online. apparently unrelated? have to interview the hacker. yeah. it s now up and you can read it. how long did it take? how did this come together and how long did it take? this process started all the way backing in december. our photo director jody kwan was reading the news in the wake of hannibal burress doing the part about bill cosby being a serial rapist. more and more women were coming forward. one by one they were publishing in the washington post, huvington post, doing press conferences. almost every day there was a bit of news about cosby. jody saw if you could get them all together in one place and take a picture there would be a lot of power in having all of the women standing together. like literal strength in numbers. what struck you as you went through the process? and there are extensive
fascinating to read about the different women through the years with this sense of just coming together in a shared story experience. but the empty chair on the cover, what did you all intend by that? well it s sort of open for interpretation. but what i will say is that many of the women we spoke to did say, you know i have a friend she had the same experience that i had but she s not ready to come forward and it s been interesting to see that take on a life of its own on twitter, #theemptychair has become a thing on twitter, reasons why they might not be ready to come forward yet about their sexual assault. how did this kol togethercome together? it s been a project about six months in the making. six months. and in december our photo director jody saw the picture in her head. she had been reading all of the news about women, you know with a broad range of ages who all looked very different, who all