Sebastian Rich has been a photographer/cameraman in hard news, documentary and current affairs for over thirty years.

Sebastian joined Independent Television News (UK)in 1980 and developed a knack for being in the right place at the right time on some of the worlds biggest
breaking news stories. He gained a reputation not just as a fearless and relentless cameraman in the theatre of war but also as a sensitive and highly talented
photographer (“his camera work is amongst the most sensitive I have ever witnessed” Jon Snow, Channel 4 News).

Sebastian won the prestigious Royal Television Society’s Cameraman of the Year award for his dramatic pictures of war and famine throughout Africa.

Over the years Sebastian has been the personal cameraman to some of British television’s most highly respected journalists - Martin Bell, Jon Snow, Kate
Adie, Sandy Gall, Trevor McDonald, and many American Network anchors - NBC ABC FOX CNN.

During his eventful career Sebastian has filmed and photographed every major war and conflict: El Salvador, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, The Gulf, Bosnia, Palestine, Iraq, he has been wounded several times, kidnapped and held hostage while on assignment in Beirut.

One of the characteristics of Sebastian’s work is the poignant images of young children that he portrays most vividly in his footage and photographs. 

In the forward of Sebastian’s first book “People IHave Shot”, Jon Snow the highly regarded British television journalist, described Sebastian as “….probably the finest news cameraman of his time’’.

Sebastian left ITN in 1993 to pursue a freelance career as a photographer /cameraman, dividing his time between international television networks, independent film productions and print media. He is a favoured cameraman/director/photographer with the French NGO Medicins Sans Frontiers, Save the Children, World Wildlife Foundation and the United Nations agencies
UNICEF, UNHCR. W.H.O.

During the war in Iraq Sebastian was ‘embedded’ with the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines (USMC) a.k.a. ‘America’s Battalion” for the entire duration of hostilities and,
for the first time in television history, broadcast live pictures from the battlefield.

For more photography by Sebastian Rich visit www.hungryeyeimages.com