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Cameraman Quote by Kate Adie

“People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.” quote by Kate Adie — Download Open image

“People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.”

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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

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“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.”

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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

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I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

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