The Flight The Flight Attendant: The Travels of Molly Choma

“I started at Virgin Airlines. I was on airport standby a lot and wasn’t getting called to work much, so I asked my supervisor if I could walk around the airport and take pictures.”

- By Gwynned Vitello

“I started at Virgin Airlines. I was on airport standby a lot and wasn’t getting called to work much, so I asked my supervisor if I could walk around the airport and take pictures.” Molly Choma’s mom always had a camera in hand and enrolled her daughter in all the neighborhood rec center photography classes. After studying art in college and being ready to set out in the world, Molly fell into the family business. Though it started almost surreptitiously—“I wanted to be a true artist.” Molly decided that travel photography might just add some color to a steady paycheck, not to mention that, “My mom was a flight attendant for twenty years, and there are only, like, three or four pictures of her.” Taking pictures of friends at work turned out to be a gratifying way to document their fight experiences and share them with friends and families too.