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I should begin by pointing out that I’m fairly new to video. My idea
of a camera has always been a Leica M6 hanging over my shoulder
and
extra rolls of film in my pocket. Now, as a burgeoning documentary
maker, I find myself loaded down with bags of lighting, tripods,
sound equipment, and cameras. For music videos, I frequently have a
whole car full of equipment for multi-camera shoots. That said, I
come to the task of evaluating the Panasonic HVX-200 with a
particular point of view. I like simple, rugged cameras that produce
gorgeous pictures. The HVX-200 is in my comfort zone.
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As things settled down in Baton Rouge, and security was relaxed on
the flooded areas, which was about two months after the storm, I
started systematically exploring the entire region affected by
Katrina, from Ocean Spring, Mississippi, which is just east of
Biloxi, to Grand Isle, Louisiana, which is west and south of New
Orleans.
What I saw was both amazing and frightening.
I started
documenting the damage with my 4x5....
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"If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine we
call modern America, then before God I assert that those who consume
coal and you and I who benefit from that service because we live in
comfort, we owe protection to those men first, and we owe security to
their families if they die."
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The past two years have been very interesting for
photographer Alec Soth, a period of time in which he has gone from
being an unknown to fame after his exceptional book Sleeping by the
Mississippi was released in 2004....
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Filmmaker Dan Krauss' award-winning documentary
The Death of Kevin Carter
tells the story behind Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph
(right). The Bang Bang Club is a book by his colleagues who covered the
violence of the last years of South Africa's apartheid regime. View a
gallery of photographs and excerpts from the book.
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