Sebastian rich, owner of adventure-TV, will be in charge for the production of the documentary film about the project "OTJIKOTO 2".

He has been a cameraman, news, documentary and current affairs, for over 25 years. Starting his career in the British film industry, then at age 20 he became the youngest ever Director of Photography shooting a feature film (How Sleep The Brave) for Warner Brothers.

Joining itn (Independent Television News) in 1980 Sebastian soon gained a reputation not only as courageous operator, but also a sensitive and highly talented cameraman, winning the prestigious Royal Television Society’s Cameraman of the Year award in 1985. This led to an assignment following the world’s most famous couple (The Prince and Princess of Wales) for a year, filming a ‘’fly on the wall’’ documentary produced by ITN entitled “In Public and In Private”.

During his eventful career, he has filmed every major war and conflict: El Salvador, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, The Gulf, Bosnia, Kosovo, Palestine, Northern Ireland, Iraq and has been wounded several times and kidnapped on assignment in Beirut.

Over the years he was the personal cameraman to Jon Snow, Kate Adie, Martin Bell, Sandy Gall and many American anchors.

One of the characteristics of Sebastian’s work was the poignant images of young children he portrays vividly in his footage. An affinity with innocent children caught up in the horrors of war led him to his involvement with a young Muslim girl, dying of Leukemia and trapped in the Bosnian conflict. His attempts to help the 12-year-old Sabina Music, tragically failed, and she died in 1993. His youngest daughter, born a year later, is named Sabina Music Rich, in her memory. This story was the subject of a BBC documentary, “The Correspondent”.

Sebastian is also the subject of a documentary screened by BBC in early 2002 in a series entitled “Living Dangerously”.

In the forward of Sebastian’s 1st book “People I Have Shot”, published in 1990, Jon Snow, highly regarded British journalist and newscaster, described Sebastian as “probably the finest news cameraman of his time.” He is also an accomplished stills photographer and mounted an exhibition of his work in the Grosvenor House Hotel (London) in 1996, entitled “Legacies of War”, to raise money for the family of Sabina Music and The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust.

Sebastian left ITN in 1993 to pursue a freelance career, and whilst he still visits the world’s “hotspots”, his documentary work is veering towards less traumatic subjects. 

As well as producing and directing his own documentaries, most  recently released on the National Geographic Channel with an estimated audience of over fifty million (’’The Deeper Blue A Freedivers Story’’) the life and times of a FREEDIVER in competition, the real life version of the Hollywood film ‘’The Big Blue’’.

Sebastian also headed up ITN’s Underwater Unit filming such diverse stories as the sinking of H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S Repulse in the South China Sea, a cover of the Scapa Flow anniversary to the fabulous lost burial grounds of the Arawak Indians on the island of South Andros, an expedition –100m underwater into an unknown (Ocean Hole) cave system.

Other recent underwater credits include ‘The Bermuda Triangle Solved‘ for The Discovery Channel North America (a scientific approach to some of the triangles more popular tales) and a detailed underwater survey of the barrier reef off the coast of Honduras for ‘The World Wildlife Fund For Nature’ after Hurricane Mitch.

Currently in post production “On a Wing and a Prayer‘’ an in depth look at the lives of United Nations bush pilots in Africa and the present evil slave trade in Sudan, plus exclusive interviews with the Warlords of Somalia.

He is also now one of the preferred Director/Cameramen for the World Wildlife Foundation, Save The Children and the French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres, having directed and shot to date, some ten films for these NGO’s in locations varied as the Galapagos, Mexico, Honduras, Cambodia, Sudan, Somalia, and Namibia, one of his latest wildlife films for WWF, is about the silver backed gorillas of Cameroon.

Sebastian is a favored Director of Photography for TLC/Discovery and the National Geographic Channel with over twenty credits as Director Of Photography.

Following the events of September 11th Sebastian completed a two-month ‘tour of duty’ in Afghanistan as Correspondent/Cameraman for a number of European broadcast networks.

Sebastian has just been commissioned to write his second autobiography and has just returned from Ghana as director/cameraman with the British based NGO Save The Children.