Dear Video Shooter:
This is your task. This is your struggle to uniquely and eloquently express your point of view, whatever it is and wherever it takes you. For the shooter storyteller, this exploration can be highly exhilarating and personal. This is what makes your point of view different and enables you to tell visually compelling stories like no other video shooter in the world.
In May 1988, while on assignment for National Geographic in Poland, I learned a profound lesson about the power of personal video. The aging Communist regime had amassed a thousand soldiers and tanks in front of the Gdansk Shipyards to crush a strike by workers belonging to the banned Solidarity union. I happened to be shooting ...
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