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“What difference could me and my little camera ever make?”: The Rory Peck Awards
George Jarrett reviews the Rory Peck Awards, given to freelancers shooting on the front lines
THE DELIVERY of outstanding editorial coverage often from highly dangerous locations has always been the identifier behind the Sony sponsored Rory Peck Awards, but the 2013 finalists took the journalistic values of freelancing to astonishing new heights. Boosted by a record entry of 73 titles the nine finalists across three categories focused on three Syrian stories, two stories from Bangladesh, plus single reports from Mali, Somalia, Afghanistan
Aris Roussinos’sGround Zero Mali: The Battle of Gaowon in the news category and Kashmir.
Setting the context and mood
for the event, Rory Peck Trust chairman Michael Jeremy said: “It is good that freelancers are recognised, but they are not recognised enough. It is good that they have more access to
safety and protection, but they are still not safe enough.” “Often at great personal risk they produce remarkable work that plays a crucial role in shining a light into dark places. Those of us that believe in transparency and
Roussinos: “War is inherently ludicrous”
well-informed democracy should be grateful that committed freelancers exist.” The Trust is a safety net, but sometimes it has to say no. How big should it become to achieve everything that director Tina Carr thinks it must cover?
“I think we are too small to
really fulfill our remit,” said Carr. “We do not want to become an enormous organisation because we would lose our very personal touch. We just want to be big enough to be able to help maybe double the number of cases we are able to support now fully. We are mainly getting to people through social media, and that has opened up the whole thing.” Talking about the competition Carr said: “The quality was astounding. The people who were getting the stuff in just said it was the best they have seen in the 17 years of the event.”
It was kill or be killed In the news section, Aris Roussinos triumphed with his online video, Ground Zero Mali: The Battle of Gao, the product
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