About me
I have been a documentary cameraman for more than twenty years, having graduated with a BA (Hons) in Photography and Film from London College of Printing in the 1980’s and then working my way up through the industry. On the way I was fortunate to work with Michael Waldman on the landmark BBC series The House and to carve out from there a career in observational filmmaking.
I have subsequently filmed in many of the world’s current trouble spots, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, as well as Sudan, Congo (DRC), Angola, Liberia and Ethiopia. I was also in Tunisia during the revolution in January 2011.
I shot two films of the major five-part BBC series RUSSIA: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby, travelling from Moscow to the Caucuses, including Kabardino Balkaria and Dagestan, on to Astrakhan and along the Volga to Volgograd, Samara, Kazan and Perm - finally emerging on the Euro-Asian border in the Urals.
Many of the films I shoot hit the headlines for the right reasons; they make people sit up and take notice of the injustice and establishment failings that surround us, whether it is the state of our railways, the iniquitous influence of supermarkets regarding the production of our food, the betrayals by our government on myriad issues or the lack of compassion for the lives of innocents. I am extremely proud of that.
Awards won by films I have shot include: - Prix Italia 2003 - BAFTA 1997 - Emmy 1996 & 2002 - RTS 2001 & 2003 - Broadcast Award 1998 & 2004 - One World Award 2001 - Prix Europa 2001 - Grierson Award 2009 - and I was personally shortlisted for The Rory Peck Award in 2009. Other films have been shortlisted for, amongst other things, the Grierson Award (twice), International Emmy Award (twice), the Huw Weldon Award, RTS Awards and the Screen Nation Award.