Fiona Lloyd-Davies

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Fiona Lloyd-Davies is a photojournalist and documentary maker whose work is focused on human rights abuses in conflict zones. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and has won various awards for her work.

In 2000 Lloyd-Davies produced a documentary Licence to Kill, for which the Royal Television Society (RTS) awarded her the Best International Journalism of the Year. [1] [2] In 2005 her documentary The Baghdad Blogger: Salam Pax won another RTS award. [3] In 2010 Lloyd-Davies traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to film a documentary for BBC3 titled, The World`s Most Dangerous Place for Women and to work on an independent project titled, Field of Hope. [4] [5] [6]

She is a former producer for the BBC show, Newsnight. [7]

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References

  1. Heath 2004.
  2. Lloyd-Davies 2012.
  3. The Guardian 2009.
  4. Holmes 2013, p. 238.
  5. Lloyd-Davies 2013.
  6. Sauer 2013.
  7. Hoskins & O'Loughlin 2010, p. 42.

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