Kenyan
Kibera Slum
Shot in Kenya, January 2008
Commissioned and broadcast by Al Jazeera English

FINALIST: Rory Peck Award for News 2008

Clifford’s piece takes the viewer into Kenya's notorious Kibera Slum at the height of the post-election chaos and shows how its impoverished residents bore the brunt of the violence.

Clifford was the first cameraman to go into the slums. He witnessed a contingent of anti-riot police firing live rounds into the crowd and tear gas into houses where terrified women and children tried to shelter.

The judges said the film was full of striking images. One said: "this entry is a product of real initiative and access. The resulting rawness is extraordinarily revealing. The sense of individual misery and injustice is powerful."

Biography
Clifford Derrick has worked as a journalist since 2001 and specializes in investigative reporting. In 2003 he was named Cameraman of the Year at the Kenyan Union of Journalists Awards. In 2004 he was CNN African Journalist of the Year.

In 2005, he received several awards from the Kenyan Union of Journalists including Journalist of the Year, Investigative Journalist, Crime Reporter, Children Rights Reporter and Electronic Journalist of the Year.

Clifford has a diploma in Journalism and Public Relations from Kenya Polytechnic and a Post Graduate Diploma in Media Management from Rhodes University in South Africa.