Documentean Gifts

"Big mistake getting him a video camera for Christmas."

'Nothing beats seeing your favourite band play live.'

"Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?"

"Where are you guys going?" "We’re out of here!" "It’s October 28th!" "The new team are running late. We need you to stay until February 2025!" "But I’m tired!!" "How do we know they won’t bail on us again?"

Police film evidence

Kirsten Johnson

Crocodile

"The arms reduction talks are off to a good start -so far, we've agreed to ban pebbles."

'Your proposal sounds interesting. Can you send me a written proposal? I cannot reread a phone call.'

"I remembered that time you said you wished you had a biographer."

Harvesting the folder crop in Manila

"Excellent! It's the disclosure documents for your hearing on Monday."

'I still say these shots need more action.'

'Hold it - someone's filming this without permission!'

'If whales are so intelligent, why do they swim near Japan?'

'Great! So that's the film... Now for the sound!'

"Those pervs from the nature channel are filming us again."

'Coming up next...more of man's inhumanity to man...in hi-def.'

'I can't remember the title,but it was on a little white piece of paper.'

"Where would we BE without the right DOCUMENTATION...?"

'Because it's there.' ... 'Because he may fall.'

"Here is the one pager we all agreed on..."

"Is it my imagination, or does our use of correction fluid increase as people's teeth get whiter?"

An environmental documentary crew filming garbage washing up on the beach.

'You're a funny beggar, switching off the sound just because Joanna Lumley is ENTHUSING!'

Files of Doom

Rain Forest Filmcrew

The Young Jacques Cousteau at the Beach with his Mother.

Social lens of the photojournalist

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