Ballroom Dancing

About

adilbradlow

Front-line journalist who has covered the major conflicts of the past two decades – from the Rwandan genocide to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Award-winning journalist and videographer MENA and AFPAK area expert M.A student – Department of War Studies: King’s College London I began working as a journalist in South Africa in the 1980s as a photographer covering the Anti-Apartheid struggle for the international news agency the Associated Press. After 13 years I switched to television and began working for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Within a year I had won the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award and was working for CNN based out of their London bureau. After five years covering the War on Terror I was transferred to Jerusalem where I was the West Bank and Gaza cameraman for the network. In 2007 I was hired by CBS News where I worked for two years with Lara Logan, CBS News’ Chief International Correspondent. I then went freelance in Johannesburg working for a variety of news companies including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News and ZDF, both inside South Africa and beyond. Specialties: I have specialised in working in hostile environments and have covered wars across Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia and the Middle East.

Gauteng – 1996

961207AB02:SAFRICA:ARTS:7DEC96 – A mixed race couple make their way into the dance hall during the early heats in the 1996 South African National Ballroom Dance Championships, in Midrand, Saturday December 7, 1996. (Photo: Adil Bradlow/PictureNET Africa)

After the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and in the years subsequent to that, what we covered at AP Photos slowly changed and broadened out and quiet often we would shoot stories of a more socio-cultural theme, like these images from the 1996 World Ballroom Dancing Championships.