The Rory Peck Award For News 2010

LPA movingPictures are delighted to confirm that Sebastian Rich has been selected as a finalist for The Rory Peck Award for News for his work on " Afghan Bomb Disposal ".

This Award is part of the prestigious Rory Peck Awards. It honours freelance camerawork of a news event where the focus is on the immediacy of the story: This Award was judged in London on 30 September 2010 by a panel of news professionals.

There are 3 finalists in this category and the name of the winner will be announced at The Rory Peck Awards Ceremony which will take place in central London on 17 November 2010.
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Sebastian Rich From Bullets To Ballet
Photography by Sebastian Rich Afghan army Marja Afghanistan

Sebastian Rich Shoots Ballet In Argentina

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Bullets To Ballet

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Sebastian Rich

Sebastian Rich is a photographer and hard news cameraman and has been working on the front line in war zones for the past three decades.
He has just spent two weeks embedded with the the Julio Bocca Ballet School in Buenos Aires Argentina.

"I am starting to smile behind the camera. Not the perverse smile of the photographer who knows he has got the shot of some one in their quintessential moment of terror in a war zone. But the smile of the photographer who has just captured the most beautiful movement he has ever seen. As I am a lensman and not a pensman I will try and let my pictures tell the story of the dedication and sacrifice of these ballet dancers. I think that’s fair to them and me"

At this point in my new found passion “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”

You can view some of Sebastion's ballet pictures and read the supporting text in his LPA Featured Gallery.