Close to the Edge and Still Operating ...
The last of three programmes about Magnum, a co-operative of the world's leading photojournalists.
The film features the work of some of today's most acclaimed photographers:
Sebastiao Salgado 's visionary photographs of famine in Africa; Eugene Richards 's compassionate photo-essays on drugs and poverty in the United States: and James Nachtwey 's unflinching record of the wars of our time. While filming was taking place this year, the tragic and dramatic events in China were unfolding.
Magnum photographers were in China to witness and record what happened before, during and after the student demonstrations and subsequent massacre.
Producers PATRICIA WHEATLEY and ROSEMARY BOWEN JONES