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July 26, 2012 2 Comments
BBC World Affairs Producer Stuart Hughes carried the Olympic torch on Tuesday (24 July), through Hillingdon, West London, in recognition of his campaigning work against landmines.
Hughes lost part of his leg after stepping on a landmine while covering the war in Iraq 2003. His colleague, cameraman Kaveh Golestan, was killed instantly.
July 24, 2012 1 Comment
The BBC’s Stuart Hughes (right), who lost part of his leg in Iraq in 2003, is running the Olympic torch relay today. He hopes to raise awareness of landmines (Stuart Hughes)
A journalist who lost part of his leg after stepping on a landmine in Iraq will be running the Olympic torch relay in London today.
Stuart Hughes, World Affairs Producer for the BBC, will be wearing a carbon fibre blade prosthesis as he carries the flame through the borough of Hillingdon.
Hughes was injured after stepping on an anti-personnel landmine in Iraq in 2003. His colleague, cameraman Kaveh Golestan, was killed instantly.
His right leg was amputated below the knee and he was fitted with a prosthetic leg.
June 11, 2012 Leave a comment
A wounded man sits in shock above the blood-soaked floor at Jinnah Medical Centre. At least 140 people were killed in a suicide bombing aimed at assassinating former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. October 19, 2007. Karachi, Pakistan. (©Warrick Page/Getty Images)
“As a curator, you aren’t normally used to your artists dying on you.”
When photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed while covering the war in Libya last year, curator Sarah Schuster felt the impact of his death. She had been working with him on an exhibition that will explore the psychological effects of war coverage on journalists.
“When he died I was upset. It was surprised how hard it hit, because I didn’t feel I had the right to be upset. It brought home a whole different perspective,” she said in an interview with INSI.
Schuster, 32, has curated exhibitions for 10 years. But her new project, “One Shot Over the Line: Conflict Journalists and Trauma” is a far cry from her previous endeavours, which included a Zaha Hadid retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York.
She wanted to explore the gritty lifestyle of war correspondents and bring to light the challenges they face every day.
May 25, 2012 2 Comments
An Iraqi journalist takes a photograph of local dignitaries during the grand opening for the district advisory council hall for the Rusafa political district in eastern Baghdad (Flickr/James Selesnick)
After years of working behind the scenes to help deliver some of the greatest international stories covered by the BBC, a former security adviser for the corporation has decided to step forward tell his own.
As a bodyguard for high profile BBC correspondents John Simpson and Jeremy Bowen and a plethora of international new crews for more than a decade, Craig Summers has travelled to and through some of the world’s most troubled and dangerous places.
His work as a BBC security adviser took him to war zones and scenes of natural disaster, to undercover operations involving child trafficking, football hooliganism and narcotics.
April 4, 2012 1 Comment
By Stuart Hughes
Stuart Hughes with his prosthetic leg which replaces the one blown off by a landmine in northern Iraq (BBC/Stuart Hughes)
Nine years ago to the day I was lying in a hospital bed, heavily sedated, as surgeons prepared to amputate my right leg below the knee.
A few days earlier I had stepped on an anti-personnel landmine near the town of Kifri in Northern Iraq, where I was on assignment for BBC News. In the chaos that followed the explosion the Iranian cameraman I was working with, Kaveh Golestan, tried to run for safety. Instead, tragically, he strayed further into the unmarked minefield, triggering two more devices.
