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With Cameraperson , Kirsten Johnshon both raises and answers the question of: T he people I film are in immediate and often desperate material need, but I offer little to nothing material . While Kirsten may not have anything of material value to offer the people she films, arguably this might be the better alternative. By not offering the people materials that they may need, she places herself in a position of omniscience, she exists and inhabits the space she’s in, but she does not influence it or impress herself upon it. Allowing for a true perspective into the lives and stories of those and what she shoots. When Kirsten visited lecture she mentioned that she could have given the young boy with the balloons a toy that she had in her pocket but she chose not too. Her mission when documenting the lives of people is not to change their lives or to assist them, granted it would be a noble thing to do. She is instead ‘documenting’ them, she turns them and their lives into a piece of i...