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Kazbek Basayev

Russian
South Ossetia war
Shot in South Ossetia, Georgia, August 2008
Commissioned and broadcast by Reuters Video News

WINNER - RORY PECK AWARD FOR NEWS 2009


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Kazbek Basayev shot the Russia-Georgia conflict from the South Ossetia side, reaching its capital Tskhinvali with the first wave of Russian troops. 

His pictures show the human casualties of war – the dead and injured, shocked and displaced survivors in devastated streets – and they provided the first coverage of burning Georgian villages in territory taken under Russian/Ossetian control.

The judges praised the human quality of Kazbek’s camerawork and his ability to tell a complete story through the pictures he shot. One said: “He was dealing with a population under stress, a foreign power, tanks, and burning buildings but in the middle of all that he managed to convey the human face of conflict with a series of thoughtful and beautifully composed shots.”

Biography
Kazbek was born in 1969 in the Soviet city of Ordzhonikidze, now re-named Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia. He trained as a vet at the State Agriculture University and did National Service with the Soviet Army in Belarus before getting a job with local TV in North Ossetia.  From 2000 to 2005 Kazbek worked as a cameraman for the Russian channel NTV before becoming a freelance.  He is married with two daughters.


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