Burmese secret cameramen 'Z' and 'T' among Rory Peck Awards winners

Freelance cameramen and camerawomen working in news and current affairs for Channel 4, CNN and Reuters were named winners at the Rory Peck Awards last night.

Kasbek Basayev won the news prize for his coverage of the South Ossetian war in August 2008, commissioned and broadcast by Reuters.

The winners of the features category were two anonymous Burmese cameramen, 'Z' and 'T' who risked imprisonment for their work if caught by authorities. The pair's prize-winning work focused on the orphans of Burma's cyclone and was shot for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme.

The Martin Adler prize, set up in honour of murdered freelance photographer, journalist and filmmaker Martin Adler, was awarded jointly to three Gaza freelancers: Talal Abu Rahma, who works regularly for CNN and France 2; Raed Athemneh and Ashraf Mashharawi.

The Sony Impact award, which focuses on freelance news footage that raises humanitarian issues, went to Joost Van Der Walk for his work on 'Saving Africa's Witch Children' for Channel 4's Dispatches.

Clips from the finalists can be watched on the Rory Peck website.

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