B&W photo of Easter Bunny approaching a house front door.

‘Everybody’s got an important story to tell’

Longtime National Geographic photographer David Guttenfelder has covered war, genocide, and other news events around the globe.

While David Guttenfelder was driving through Lake Mills, Iowa, he saw someone dressed as the Easter Bunny riding in the back of a car. He followed the car. The driver, Ona Van Heiden, was the head of a local Girl Scouts group. Since the annual Easter egg hunt had been canceled, she persuaded her son Treize to don a bunny costume and hand out Girl Scout cookies.
Published December 8, 2020
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This story appears in the January 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. It is part of a series in which five contributors answer the question “What was it like to be a photographer in 2020?”
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