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Photographer Caitlin McNaney Shares What Instagram Won’t about Body Image

January 09, 2026 • Lindsey Sullivan • Season 1 • Episode 52

It's the first episode of 2026! This feels like a timely one as we’re all fresh off of posting photos of our 2025 roundups and envisioning the new us this year will inevitably bring. This week's guest is Caitlin McNaney, an incredible photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, The Cut and more. For seven years, she was the photo director at Broadway.com, where she and Lindsey's paths crossed. While Cait typically works in Nashville where she lives with her dog Josie–a bonus guest on this episode–and in New York City, the best friends actually recorded this episode in Rochester where she grew up. Cait started taking photos when she participated in local community theatre–famously, a production of Les Miz, in which she ALSO played Madame Thernardier. As art enthusiasts, former theatre kids, friends and colleagues, Cait and Lindsey have always spoken at length about body image. Cait has always championed capturing subjects in unique ways, which makes her a great photographer and an even better friend. The ladies discussed what interested Cait in photography initially and how being behind the lens has informed how she views beauty now. Photos can be beautiful moment preservers or master manipulators; Cait and Lindsey also addressed the fact that pretty much everyone has a camera and editing tools on their person at all times now–for better or for worse.