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Rory Peck (December 13, 1956 – October 3, 1993) was a Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman who was killed while covering the events of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.[1]
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[edit] Work
Rory Peck covered the first Gulf War; the wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, the many armed conflicts that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was one of the founders of the independent Frontline Television News agency.[2]
Rory was killed in a crossfire while filming the battle for Ostankino TV Centre in Moscow between Vityaz special forces and oppositional gunmen led by Albert Makashov, during Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. He was posthumously awarded the order "For Personal Courage" by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
[edit] Personal life
He was born in the US in 1956, and grew up in north county Dublin, Ireland. He was educated mainly in Dublin, and also briefly in Monaco and the US. On his father's side the Pecks were from Glasgow, Scotland; his mother's family, Titcomb, were from Maine and New York City. His maternal grandmother was from a French-speaking family in New Orleans of French and Spanish descent. There were journalists and many writers in his late father Julian Peck's family. After school his first interest was ocean engineering; he started at the Florida Institute of Technology, then transferred to Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh - leaving there for travel, then military training, and eventually journalism. He was gifted in mathematics and spoke Russian, French and Persian. He had one sister, a photographer, and one brother, Colin Peck, also a TV journalist - known for his coverage of the first Chechen war and for locating the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq during the US-led invasion of Iraq. Both brothers worked and filmed together in Moscow.
His first marriage, in 1981, was to Jane Alexander, daughter of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon, and they had two sons, James and Alexander. The marriage was dissolved in 1987.[3] His second marriage, in 1991, was to Juliet Elizabeth Crawley. They had a daughter, Lettice.[1]
[edit] Rory Peck Trust and Rory Peck Award
There are a charitable trust and an award named after Rory Peck. The Rory Peck Trust is a charity which supports cameramen injured in the line of duty.[4] The Rory Peck Award is given to camera operators who have risked their lives to report on newsworthy events.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Juliet Peck". Telegraph. 2007-07-02. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1541782/Juliet-Peck.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ^ Green, Chris (2008-04-14). "Life on the frontline". The Independent. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20080414/ai_n25163888?tag=untagged. Retrieved 2008-07-09.[dead link]
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ a b UK Kosovo film wins Peck award, BBC
[edit] References
- Ryzhij. V.Snegiryov. 2003. ISBN 587135145X.
[edit] External links
- Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting, by David Loyn
- The Rory Peck Trust offers discretionary grants to the families of freelance newsgatherers killed whilst on assignment, and crisis support to freelancers who are unable to continue their work due to severe injury, disablement or imprisonment
- Рецензия на: В. Снегирев. Рыжий. Посвящено Рори Пеку. 28 марта 2004 г. Д. Верхотуров. (Russian)
