Adnan Sarwar won the Premio Luchetta Award for Reportage in 2020 for a documentary about gangs in South Africa recruiting children. In the same year he infiltrated an Iranian people smuggling gang in Calais by posing as a migrant for 6 months. He was in the sea one night up to his waist with a secret camera filming children on boats making the dangerous journey to the UK. Since then he spent two years in Afghanistan making documentaries about the Taliban, he was the second camera on the Emmy Award winning Escape from Kabul for HBO. In Kabul he was near explosions, shootings and had his life threatened. He documented the lives of Afghan women, children, men and the Taliban in film, photographs and words. His latest documentary series, which will be shown in 2025, follows the lives of the suicide bombers who blew up three trains and a bus in London in 2005. Before television he was a soldier in the British Army and served in the Iraq war. His work can be seen here www.adnansarwar.com
Adnan Sarwar
Adnan Sarwar won the Premio Luchetta Award for Reportage in 2020 for a documentary about gangs in South Africa recruiting children. In the same year he infiltrated an Iranian people smuggling gang in Calais by posing as a migrant for 6 months. He was in the sea one night up to his waist with a secret camera filming children on boats making the dangerous journey to the UK. Since then he spent two years in Afghanistan making documentaries about the Taliban, he was the second camera on the Emmy Award winning Escape from Kabul for HBO. In Kabul he was near explosions, shootings and had his life threatened. He documented the lives of Afghan women, children, men and the Taliban in film, photographs and words. His latest documentary series, which will be shown in 2025, follows the lives of the suicide bombers who blew up three trains and a bus in London in 2005. Before television he was a soldier in the British Army and served in the Iraq war. His work can be seen here www.adnansarwar.com
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