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National Geographic : 1982 Jun
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On Assignment MENTION NAMIBIA and most people draw a blank. They don't know what it is (a former German colony administered by South Africa) or where it is (in southwestern Africa). Newspapers report on a border war there, and some observers conclude the con flict boils down to black versus white. To get behind the headlines and preconcep tions, photographer Jim Brandenburg and senior writer Bryan Hodgson crisscrossed the immense desert country for two months last year to prepare the most intensive report ever made by American journalists. "It was a real eye-opener," Brandenburg reports. Among the surprises: "Early morning fog on one of the world's great deserts-with the highest dunes anywhere... the majestic si lence of elephants at a water hole . . the warm reception of the drought-stricken Him bas [above], who live in the war zone and haven't seen rain for seven years. .. ." The two men are veterans at searching out a story. A sportsman since his Minnesota child hood, Brandenburg has adapted his under standing of wilderness to a lens view of the world, from Kansas to Manchuria. Pictures of tallgrass prairie, the Canadian Rockies, and bamboo published in 1980 GEOGRAPHIC arti cles earned him the coveted Magazine Photog rapher of the Year award. Hodgson, British-born, raised in Ireland, and a newspaperman in California, has tack led such complicated issues as the Alaska pipe line, the boom in natural gas, and the pain of Northern Ireland. "I've learned it's not what experts say that is crucial, but what's going on in the field," he says. JIM UnANUtNUUKG BY ANNIEGRIFFITHS
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