Sam Wild’s webspace

I am a journalist and film-maker and I have worked for a number of media organisations including: Agence France Presse (AFP) (Hong Kong), Channel Four (UK), NHK (Japan), The Independent (UK) and The Times (UK). I am from London and have lived and worked in Hong Kong, Italy, Switzerland and Thailand.

Feel free to drop me an email.

Some of my print journalism work is listed here:

Article for AFP on the Philippines’ unwanted pregnancy crisis (in English, Nov 2010, weblink)

Tages Zeitung article on gentrification in Washington DC and Beijing (in German, April 2008, PDF)

BBC Wildlife Magazine article on melting glaciers (in English, Aug 2005, PDF)

BBC Wildlife Magazine article on the natural return of wolves to Switzerland (in English, Sept 2004, PDF)

Article in The Independent on air quality in the London Underground (in English, July 2001, PDF)

Article in The Independent on anti-World Bank protests in Prague (in English, September 2000, PDF)

Limb by Limb Magazine article on anti-WTO protests (in English November 1999, PDF)

Some of the films I have made (both video news and documentary) can be viewed here:

AFP Video wire service story on Hong Kong’s world-famous toy doctor, Ambrose Lee (July 2011, 2 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on the struggle campaigners are waging in the Philippines to bolster government support for access to modern contraceptives for poor communities (Nov 2010, 2.5 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on threats to the city’s internationally-renowned Mai Po wetland site (Feb 2010, 2 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on Japanese ‘Samurai Sword’ keep-fit craze (May 2010, 2 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on Hong Kong’s notorious financial service ‘Fight Night’ (Nov 2009, 2 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on Hong Kong’s Dragon Boat Festival (May 2009, 1.5 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on how one man converted his tiny flat into a ’23-room palace’ (March 2009, 2 mins)

AFP Video wire service story on ‘Sleep Pods’ in Hong Kong where tired city workers can pay to rest for 20 minutes (October 2008, 2 mins)

The First River. WWF Switzerland-funded film on the threats facing the Tagliamento river in North East Italy. (In Italian / English, Sept 2007, 21 mins)

On The Tracks Of The Wolf: Self-funded film on the natural return of wolves to Switzerland (In Italian /English, Sept 2005-2011, 31 mins)

Some of my photos can be viewed here (all JPEGs):

Anti-World Bank sticker on Prague Metro (Czech Republic, 2000)

Anti-WTO protests, Seattle (USA, 1999)

Aboriginal children (Broome, Australia, 1997)

Road workers (Hong Kong, 1996)

Buddhas in Bangkok (Thailand, 1995)

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