The Rory Peck Award is an award given to freelance camera operators who have risked their lives to report on newsworthy events. It was set up in 1995 and is named after the Northern Irish

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 freelance cameraman Rory Peck

Rory Peck

Rory Peck was a Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman who was killed while covering the events of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.-Work:...

, who was killed while reporting on the siege of the Moscow White House in 1993. The award is organised by The Rory Peck Trust. Both were set up in 1995 by Peck's widow Juliet Peck and his friend John Gunston, in order to provide support and help to freelancers and is sponsored by Sony UK Ltd.

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

The Rory Peck Trust is now an internationally recognized organization that supports freelancers' rights and enables them to work safely.

Categories

The Rory Peck Award is currently awarded in the following categories:

• The Rory Peck Award for News
• The Rory Peck Award for Features
• The Sony Professional Impact Award

The awards honour individual initiative and journalistic integrity as well as the quality of the camera work.

Recipients

• Najibullah Quraishi, 2010, Rory Peck Award for Features
• Roger Arnold, 2010, Rory Peck Award for News
• Nick Read, 2010, Sony Professional Impact Award