The Rory Peck Awards 2003
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James Brabazon

Liberia - Attack on Monrovia

Finalist: The Rory Peck Award for Hard News

Attack on Monrovia was the result of Brabazon’s second trip into Liberia, filming with the rebels as they arm and prepare, march to the capital and then - running out of ammunition - are driven back, navigating and barely surviving government ambushes. This time, judging the dangers too great to continue filming, Brabazon decided that he and his AP, Tim Hetherington, should withdraw. He subsequently discovered that because his reporting from rebel-occupied Monrovia was directly contradicting their press information, the Liberian government had issued a death warrant against the crew and had actually dispatched soldiers to find and kill them.

Biography

James Brabazon read history at Cambridge. As a frontline journalist filming, photographing, producing and directing in the world’s most hostile environments, Brabazon has worked in over 50 countries, including Afghanistan, China, the United States, Ecuador, Eritrea. For the last 10 years, James has travelled extensively through Africa and Asia for Camerapix. James’s work with Camerapix has appeared on, the SABC, BBC, TVNZ, SKY, CNN and The Discovery Channel, as well as in Newsweek, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Guardian. His international reportage has also been used extensively by Amnesty International and Save the Children.

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