Kirsten Johnson

I remember making up songs and melodies from an early age, but never actively pursued composition until I was a graduate student, with music theory as my minor. Some of the works on this disc date from that period. I focused on my career as a pianist, but in recent years composition has taken much more of my time and has been a great joy.

I remember making up songs and melodies from an early age, but never actively pursued composition until I was a graduate student, with music theory as my minor. Some of the works on this disc date from that period. I focused on my career as a pianist, but in recent years composition has taken much more of my time and has been a great joy.

A boxing match in Brooklyn, life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home.

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage collected over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative.