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Hello, and thanks for stopping by.

I'm a freelance lighting cameraman with over 20 years experience working in TV news & broadcast documentaries - both here in the U.K. and worldwide - for many UK & foreign TV networks & independent production companies. 

Although I'm UK based, I've always enjoyed travelling to foreign climes - the light, the smells, the tastes....  and I've been fortunate enough to have been involved with some really interesting stories over the years - shooting some memorable documentaries from locations as diverse as the Meng Dynasty forts of the Gobi Desert to the gilded residences of the rich & famous in Beverly Hills....  

Nowadays I'm just as happy to work closer to home, either as a single person news crew or as part of a larger team.  

I have my own broadcast camera channel with sound and lights, which means that I can be available at short notice for last-minute & breaking news work. Regular clients include ITN & BBC TV News, Breakfast TV News etc, filming news packages, features, interviews etc., as well as 'lives' for OB satellite feeds.

Sometimes the reporter can't make it for a news interview; that's no problem - just email or text me the questions in advance, and I'll do the rest, then have it fed 'down the line' to you from the nearest news hub. 

I can also provide a 2 or 3-man crew for documentaries, corporate video, educational & training work.

  

   

 

 

Recent Television Credits. 

 

'The Many Faces of Les Dawson'. BBC TV. Documentary profile of the late, great British comedian. 

'China's Man-made Marvels': 'The Great Wall of China'. Discovery Channel  

Documentary tracing the origins and development of the Great Wall, from an early system of defensive walls built out of mud and straw to the Meng Dynasty forts, which had to withstand explosives and artillery barrages. The film examines not only the huge cost of the wall in terms of human suffering - up to a million people died building it - but the vast range of engineering and logistical problems which had to be overcome in order to realise such an immense undertaking. Engineers had to work out ways of building over mountain peaks and river valleys; even into the sea.  Extensive shooting for C.G.I.

 

Seconds From Disaster: 'USS Forrestal'. National Geographic Channel. The story of the tragic fire aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal, stationed in the Bay of Tonkin, Vietnam, in 1967. The fire - and subsequent explosions - led to the deaths of more than 130 servicemen, and resulted in a complete overhaul of operational, safety & fire-fighting procedures throughout the US navy. Hi-Definition with extensive shooting for C.G.I. 

 

 

  

'China's Man-made Marvels': 'Beijing's Olympic Makeover'. Discovery Channel.
In the run-up to the Beijing olympics, the Chinese government embarked upon an ambitious series of building projects, using world renowned architects, new construction techniques and state-of -the-art materials. From the new opera house in Beijing, a colossal, titanium-skinned egg, nicknamed 'the spaceship', to the new athletics stadium, which resembles a gigantic bird's nest, these are some of the most difficult and expensive civil engineering projects ever undertaken.

'Killing Mum & Dad': The Menendez Brothers. Sky One.
In 1989 Jose and Kitty Menendez were brutally murdered in a seemingly motiveless attack in their Beverly Hills mansion. Was it the Mafia, a business rival, or even their own children who were responsible? The case dragged on through the courts for several years -and two trials - before the murderers were finally brought to justice.