Kit Swartz

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Kit Swartz was a television producer, for CNN, [1] and he is currently a freelance photographer.

He was a soundman at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 with Cynde Strand. [2] He was a cameraman for "Europe on the Brink", which won a 1992 CINE Golden Eagle award. [3] He was also a member of the band Love Tractor during his time at University of Georgia, which was critically acclaimed as one of the founders of the Athens alternate rock scene.

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