Awards
As a freelance cameraman Smith won, either individually or as part of a team, 28 news awards. Most of them were for “The Valley", a film which Smith produced about the Kosovo War, which remains one of the most acclaimed documentary ever shown on the UK’s Channel 4 Television.
In 2007, Smith was the joint winner of a Media Guardian Innovation Award and in 2008 a Rory Peck Award finalist for his independent video blog from Afghanistan, From the Frontline.
Giving a speech at the Rory Peck Awards ceremony, Smith strongly criticised news broadcasters for failing to give cameramen due recognition for their work. "I've been shot more times than I have been credited by the BBC," he said. "Without the recognition we deserve we spill our blood anonymously, consigned to the margins."
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