Producer, cameraman, photographer, and journalist based in the UK.
Senegal
Joined March 2009
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My good good friend Ross has been missing for a week. NYC friends please share around. Police contacts on image.
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The wonderful and super-talented @berdynskykh_k has been named one of the BBC's women of the year! Read her moving account of returning to her hometown of Kherson soon after the Russians left ft.com/content/edebcc74-ea99…
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Twenty years ago, the Joola, a Senegalese ferry capsized taking more than 1,800 lives. Only 64 people survived.
It is the second-worst non-wartime maritime disaster in history. This is the story of Africa's Titanic.
It was worse than the Titanic, but you have never heard of this sea disaster. More than 1,800 people drowned when Senegal’s Joola ferry sank in 2002. Our new documentary for the BBC follows some of the 64 survivors.
youtu.be/QW84OZeXJog #Titanic #disaster @BBCAfrica #ferry
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Our trip to Balakiia, formerly on the frontline of occupied Kharkiv region 1/ One of the most striking things was the ‘information vacuum’ and differences in perception of the last 7 months. Most people had no internet or TV for most of the period bc of power and internet cuts.
Africa's Digital Future: Freedom or Repression? My latest video work from here in Senegal as camera operator and producer. youtube.com/watch?v=clh2W-nF… @cypher007 @AFRICTIVISTES @AfricaVerified
For World Environment Day belatedly sharing a highlight of my past year - a shoot with @cheikh_mbow under Senegal's mighty baobabs. Was thrilling to see my drone shots narrated by Sir David Attenborough. For Silverback Films tinyurl.com/55a2vwrc #ClimateChange
"Every second was hellish. It's very scary underground - to be underground like moles in the dark." @Alessaprentice's moving story about life and what people valued while surviving underground at Azovstal.
reuters.com/world/europe/mol… #UkraineWar #Azovstal
“The war has reached us now. Everyone was scared, people were running around and worried. The main thing is everyone is alive." @alessaprentice’s story today about how a house was shattered and a family pet killed.
reuters.com/world/europe/war…
"Go ahead, get to Zaporizhzhia and grab a table at a cafe and ... we'll join you for a pizza.” @alessaprentice’s story about those who have just escaped from Mariupol
Meet Tetyana and Daisy on their first day of freedom after two months sheltering underground at Mariupol’s Azovstal reuters.com/world/europe/mar…
"We had said goodbye to life, we didn't think anyone knew we were there." @alessaprentice's interview with women who have just escaped from Mariupol.
reuters.com/world/europe/ukr… #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar #Mariupol #IDP
"They brought them, tipped them out and buried them. That is what they do, cynically hiding their war crimes in these mass graves." Mariupol's mayor talked to @alessaprentice about the situation in the city. reuters.com/world/mariupol-m…
"The hard thing was not being able to tell family and friends that I was alive and in captivity." @alessaprentice's latest from #Ukraine on the treatment of civilian captives taken to #Russia. reuters.com/world/europe/ukr…
Spending the night with Peul nomadic herders #zebu #fulani #nomad #cow #climatechange #onassignment #cattle @ Lamaran, Kaolack, Senegal instagram.com/p/CbyG49CLfeP/… – at Senegal
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Russia shut down the media, so reporters are becoming the media.
You should all subscribe to @faridaily_'s newsletter, which has lots of exclusive reporting about the consequences of the Ukraine war in Russia – often in English, such as in this report
faridaily.substack.com/p/the…
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My opinion piece for The Financial Times ft.com/content/307c8729-bf83…
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Road sign in Odessa
Straight on: fuck off
Left: fuck off again
Right: fuck off to Russia
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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: Today I witnessed Russian troops deliberately targeting civilians fleeing for their lives from the village of Irpin. At least three members of a family of four were killed in front of me. @nytimes nytimes.com/live/2022/03/06/…
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A second attempt to help thousands evacuate Mariupol has failed. We spoke to the mayor about life under Russian siege reuters.com/world/europe/bom…
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Encircled by Russian troops and under near-constant bombardment, Mariupol has no water, heat or electricity and is running out of food, its mayor says reuters.com/world/besieged-u…
