"In her film CAMERAPERSON Kirsten Johnson lets the audience experience how beautiful and vivid and, at the same time, unbearably oppressive and ambivalent camerawork for documentary film can be. Her film embarks upon an intelligent and personal essay-like discourse about the various facets of and the tensions within the relationship between the person behind the camera and the world in front of the camera. In the process, her images and scenes achieve great intimacy and poetry. Her core interest is in reporting where the images originate from - with all the adversity, ambivalences and documentary gifts that are generally invisible to the viewer."