Using Multimedia to Reflect All Aspects of a Story
One of the things I like about working for the BBC is that you get to produce news material for television, radio and online. Although each medium requires a different set of skills, it allows you to cover all aspects of a story. The material from my recent trip to Sierra Leone with the BBC’s [...]
Turkey Earthquake
This is the spot where the BBC has been camped out all day in Ercis, covering the Turkish #earthquake. We were all hoping they would find more survivors of the earthquake in this collapsed apartment block. Several times during the day the rescue workers called for complete silence to hear if anyone was calling out [...]
Liberation Day In Libya
I made an unexpected visit to Libya this weekend to cover the country’s official liberation declaration for the BBC, following the death of Muammar Gaddafi. The event took place in the country’s second largest city, Benghazi, where the revolution against Gaddafi’s 42 year rule, began in February. It was held in a parade ground across [...]
Greece Feels Like a Country Ready to Explode
I’m going back to Athens this week to cover a strike by public sector workers after spending a few days there last week for the BBC. That trip was a real eyeopener for me. Our hotel overlooked Syntagma Square in front of parliament and every day there were demonstrations of one sort or another. I [...]
Benghazi’s Talented Street Artists
Benghazi is buzzing. It feels like a city waking up from years of repression. Where ever you look you can find evidence of this. One of the best examples in the vast amount of street art. When Muammar Gaddafi was in power, his official portraits were everywhere. In Libya’s second largest city, artists have turned [...]
The Day the Libyan Rebels Received Piles of Cash
I’ve been in Libya for the last week filming and producing for the BBC in Benghazi with correspondent Jon Leyne and producer Shaimaa Khalil. The trip has yielded some interesting surprises, including laying my eyes on a fortune in cash. On Wednesday evening we got a call from the British embassy telling us to be [...]
Remembering Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros
Damn! The world can’t afford to lose people like Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. I did not know them personally, but I knew their work. They were both incredibly talented photojournalists who were committed to exposing the truth and the realities of war. I will remember Tim most for his film Restrepo. It was unlike [...]
The UK could learn from Pulitzer winner
Its good to see LA Times photographer, Barbara Davidson winning a Pulitzer for her excellent series on the victims of gang violence in the Los Angeles area. The award goes to prove that it pays to allow journalists and photographers to invest time and energy on stories. This is becoming a rare thing as financial pressures [...]
Whoonga: A New Twist in the Fight Against Aids
A story I filmed during my recent trip to South Africa with reporter Jonah Fisher, is being broadcast on BBC World this weekend. It focuses on a new drug that is becoming popular in the country’s townships. The drug is called Whoonga and is a cocktail of various substances. One of these is the anti-retroviral [...]
Learning a Hard Lesson from a Monk
My trip to Laos has been very enjoyable but also incredibly frustrating. I’ve had to learn some very hard lessons. The toughest of these was from a 19 year old monk. Laung Prabang is well known for the daily morning ritual of the tak bat, when hundreds of monks walk in single-file, silently through the [...]
South Africa Is The Real Winner
The 2010 World Cup is now over, the vuvuzela’s have been put away and South Africa has proved all the critics wrong by hosting one of the most successful events ever staged. Its been great to see all the positive press the rainbow nation has received over the last month. The front page of the [...]
My New Website
Welcome to my new website. Please have a look around. I have set up a new home to showcase my travel and landscape photography as well as develop my interest in humanitarian photography. I also wanted a place where I could bring together my journalism and photography and explore new avenues such as video and [...]
On The Frontline In Afghanistan
The BBC have posted a slideshow on their news website, which offers and very human and intimate look at what life is like for British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. The photos were taken by Captain Alexander Allan, during a six month deployment to Helmand Province. If you have 5 minutes to spare, check out this [...]
The Afghan War
This week I attended the BBC’s News Festival. Its an annual event where organisation’s staff get to hear leading figures inside and outside the organisation debate the issues dominating the headlines and the challenges facing the media. I was looking forward to listening to Helen Boaden, the head of BBC news. Her session proved a [...]
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