• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 5, 2012
  • Season #: 1
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  • Summary: The HBO docuseries profiles three photojournalists as they work in Juarez, Mexico; South Sudan; Libya; and Rio de Janeiro.
  • Genre(s): News/Documentary
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  1. Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Nov 2, 2012
    100
    At every turn in this heart-wrenching series of films, we are reminded that these men and women are human, no matter how robotic they may seem as they rapidly snap off shots of death and tears.
  2. Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Nov 5, 2012
    91
    It's grim but exhilarating: a portrait of an artist chronicling despair.
  3. Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    Nov 5, 2012
    90
    At the same time [Eros Hoagland is taking pictures], his process is also the subject of a picture--shaped in part by the remarkable work of photographer and cinematographer Jared Moossy, who shoots all four episodes of Witness--a picture that shows both context and effect, the sort of broad view that might emerge from the most specific images.

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