http://www.davidniblock.co.uk Documentary lighting cameraman Thu, 26 May 2011 14:00:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A two-part documentary for Al Jazeera in which Rageh Omaar traces the roots and repercussions of the January 2011 uprising in Tunisia http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2011/05/26/the-death-of-fear/ An estimated 30,000 children have been used as soldiers during the 14 year conflict in Congo. No one knows how many thousands of them are still in the forests forced to carry a gun. http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2011/05/26/stacey-dooley-investigates-kids-with-guns/ Ben Fogle journeys through Ethiopia in search of victims of the cruel disease Noma, which eats away the faces of its victims. http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2011/05/26/make-me-a-new-face/ Madonna's controversial adoption of Mercy James polarised opinion both in Malawi and around the world. http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2011/05/26/madonna-and-mercy-what-really-happened/ Congo's wars have raged for more than twelve years and the cost to human life has been enormous. Nearly five-and-a-half million people have been killed http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2009/10/26/congos-forgotten-children/ The BBC makes, on behalf of various charities and NGOs, films highlighting their work. These films are broadcast monthly as appeals for funds. http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2009/10/26/lifeline/ A Dispatches special in which Jon Snow examines the difficulties that news organisations around the world faced reporting the conflict in Gaza in January 2009. http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2009/10/26/dispatches-unseen-gaza/ A landmark series for BBC2, following Jonathan Dimbleby as he ventures through the whole of present-day Russia, exploring how this huge country came to be what it now is, through the richness of it's literary history and the tragedy of its legacy as the former "evil empire". http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2008/02/11/russia-revealed/ http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2008/02/11/the-return-to-kirkuk/ I have been lucky enough to travel a lot of the world, incl. Iraq, Afghanistan, Brazil, Bosnia, Russia, Africa (from Cairo to Cape Town), Kazahkstan, Dagestan, the US and most of Europe, doing what I love. In 2009 I was shortlisted for The Rory Peck Award for my work ... http://www.davidniblock.co.uk/2007/06/29/about-me/