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Thank you Nathan. This is a fantastic, powerful article.

The only thing I have to say is that in the photo "Wu Wenguang instructing villagers at his Caochangdi Workstation", the people learning to use the cameras appear to be all men. Do you know if any women were actually involved in his "give the people a camera" project, or was it limited to 'give men a camera'? Having said that, it's still a powerful thing he has done. I love your descriptions about the films being just like rural China, "slow, patient, and mundane, where nothing happens for weeks, and then, in an instant, everything changes".

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