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Zack B.

Washington, DC, USA

3 reviews

$600 - $2000 / Day

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About Zack

Zack Baddorf is a military veteran with 10 years of video, radio, print, photo and web reporting in more than 30 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West Bank, Kashmir, and Iraq, as well as rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka and Burma. Most recently, Baddorf spent a year working as a civilian videographer for the U.S. special forces command in Afghanistan.Based in Brooklyn, Baddorf has produced award-winning radio, video, photo, print and web content for NPR, BBC, AP, the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and other international publications. He also served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania and worked for a year for an international non-governmental organization in South Sudan doing media development. He served in the U.S. military for five years as a journalist, reporting from across Asia and the Middle East. He's got master's in international relations and a bachelor's in journalism. He shoots in 4K on a GH4, C300 and 360 degree video.

Top Services

  • Documentary DP

    1 review
  • News Shooter / Video Journalist

    1 review
  • Commercial DP

Top Projects

  • Syrians Learn to Make Prosthetic Limbs in Turkey

    • News Shooter / Video Journalist

    More than 100,000 Syrians have been killed during the country’s ongoing civil war. Losing limbs in the conflict is also common. To help amputees, Syrians with little medical training have learned to make prosthetic limbs in a medical center on the Turkish side of the Syrian border.

    Produced for Storyhunter Studios on Storyhunter

    October 2013

  • Celebrity Dog Wedding

    • Documentary DP

    As described in description

    Produced for LittleThings.com on Storyhunter

    January 2016

  • [Urgent] Makongo: a local delicacy

    Produced for Aljazeera DNR on Storyhunter

    July 2017

  • Svoboda Guard at Euromaidan: "We are not extremists." - YouTube

  • After Euromaidan, Flowers Come Out in Kiev - YouTube

Equipment

Video

  • 2K video camera
  • 4K video camera
  • Full HD video camera
  • Multiple cameras
  • DSLR or equivalent
  • Drone

Audio

  • Wireless lavalier mic
  • Shotgun mic

Miscellaneous

  • Lighting kit

All Services

Pre-Production

  • Fixer
  • Production Company
  • Immersive/Spatial Video Capture

Production Support

  • Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
  • Field Producer
  • TV News Producer
  • Audio Storyteller
  • On-Air Reporter / Host
  • Commercial DP
  • Documentary DP
  • Drone Operator
  • News Shooter / Video Journalist
  • Reporter / Journalist

Post-Production

  • Video Editor - Commercial
  • Video Editor - Documentary
  • Video Editor - News

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