CV

Professional Experience

- 1993 - present Documentary Lighting Cameraman - Documentaries, Current Affairs. Factual, Features, Corporates.
- 1988 - 1993 Editor - Documentaries, Factual, Features, Current Affairs.

Working Experience

I have covered many Genres during my Twenty eight years as a Lighting Cameraman, working on high end documentary, current affairs, national news, factual & feature productions that’s led to me travelling the world in the pursuit of great stories for major UK & Foreign Broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, CH4, CH5 & Discovery for programmes such as Panorama, Dispatches, On Assignment, Tonight, America Tonight & The One Show.

I can work off my own initiative with a solid reputation of flexibility and patience, priding myself to achieve the highest standard of programming by using different camera & lighting techniques to create a mood using imaginative lighting effectively.

I have worked extensively in Hospitals, covering A&E & major transplant surgery, and also with the trauma unit in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.

I can also provide a provision for live broadcast capabilities, as I own a LiveU 600 that can transmit live HD pictures from almost anywhere in the world where there is a cellular Network.

HEFAT trained, I have spent many months in the Theatres of Iraq & Afghanistan over the past eleven years, in 2009 filming two documentaries, one on the Internets arrival in Afghanistan and one on the Russian Invasion of Afghanistan, in 2012 a BBC documentary about Shakespeare in Kabul, that won Best Programme in the Eutelsat Awards, and in 2014, covered the conflict of the uprising in the Ukraine followed by the Russian Annexing of Crimea.

I returned to Kabul to film a Documentary about the only Afghan ever to have flown into space and the following year worked on the BBC’s technology programme ‘Click’ in Kabul.

I’ve covered over 60 foreign trips to date in 34 different countries, filming in both Hemispheres, the Middle East and in third world countries under very testing and basic conditions.

I worked extensively on the very popular ‘How Do They Do It’ series, 4 recent films for ‘What on Earth’ 2 in Morocco, one in Iceland filming with a NASA Mars Landing experimental Team down in the Lava Tubes of the Volcanoes, 3 films for Storm Warriors, 5 more for Discovery’s X-Machines programmes, covering the world’s most extreme machines & 18 films for the Combat Countdown series, the World’s elite War machines series for the Discovery HD channel.

I journeyed with Louis Theroux to Johannesburg for a BBC Documentary on Law & Disorder, to film Louis observing how private armed security deal with the seemingly lawless streets and ghettos of Hillbrow, as they evict long term illegal squatters from their dilapidated landlord owned buildings, often leading to killings on both sides, and recently travelled with Dan Snow to see if the myth of the Nazi Gold train in Poland was to be uncovered for the BBC.

Two of the most difficult assignments to cover have been two Documentary’s on The Marathon Des Sables 156 mile foot race in Morocco, living in tents amongst the competitors in the middle of the Sahara desert for over a week, with temperatures exceeding 50C, following Olympic Rower James Cracknell’s quest to achieve a record British ranking in the same tough race & also a similar race, the 7 day Jungle Marathon in the Brazilian rain forest.

Specialist, Adventure & Lighting.

• HEFAT BBC approved Hostile Environment trained with additional Jungle training, Adventure Assignments & inoculated to travel worldwide.

• PDX–X500 & Sony PMX-FS7 with CN7 Cine Zoom Lens & CN-E Primes owner operator with card reader to download rushes in the field, with the LiveU-500 Live Broadcast Unit, capable of transmitting live broadcasts from anywhere in the world or feeding urgent rushes back to wherever required.

• Extensive operating theatre experience filming major liver, kidney & heart transplant surgery, along with many other theatre operations including C Section births and all types of Cosmetic surgery.

• Artistic Documentary style lighting requirements to suit each set up on location.

Courses Attended

TOR Hostile Environment Training Course x 4 (HEFAT)

Jungle Environment Training

Health & Safety

Risk Assessment

Manual Handling.

Awards

2019 Winner - Asian Media Awards - Newsnight – Far Right Yellow Jackets.

2019 RTS Nominated ITV News - Violent Crime Feature

2012 Shakespeare in Kabul – Best Programme – Eutelsat Awards.

2005 Finalist - Cameraman of the Year - ITV Awards.

2005 RTS award Best Feature programme “Joe Cocker at 60”

1999 Silver Award for “Lost girls” BMA Film Award Competition, where I had the honour of Filming with NASA in Iceland on the Mars landing experimental project working underground in the Volcanic Lava tubes.