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​I'm a Natural History Cinematographer and National Geographic Explorer with bases in the UK and Kenya. My 3 main skills are long lens, drone and gimbal (handheld and vehicle-mounted). I also regularly film macro, phantom slow motion, moco time-lapses and on the shoulder obs doc. During 2022 I undertook the prestigious camera bursary/JCO at the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU). I love working in remote corners of the world and have recently worked on productions for the BBC, Netflix, Apple, NBCU, Channel 4 and Nat Geo.

I have a UK and US drone license, US iVisa and I own a wildlife filming vehicle in Kenya. Please see the car hire page for more information.

​Outside of my broadcast work I've filmed conservation stories with various NGOs including WWF, am a Scientific Exploration Society Grantee and have been awarded the Scott Pearlman film award by the Explorers Club. I founded the organisation Stand Up for Nature which shows wildlife films to remote communities on a bicycle-powered cinema.
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For a current CV and showreel please get in touch.

​MY BACKGROUND

In 2011 I was awarded 2nd place in the young category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for a photograph capturing the moment a great tit took flight. This led to me becoming an imaging ambassador for Sony UK, and I have since worked as ambassadors for Canon, Manfrotto and DJI. 

In 2014 I then went to the University of Exeter to study Zoology. During my first year at university I successfully completed a self-generated expedition to a never-before-studied forest in Madagascar; we were told that we were too young but we managed to prove ourselves to the Royal Geographic Society who then supported the expedition. That Christmas, I then went to Malawi to make a film about elephants and the illegal ivory trade; it was during this trip that I realised a lot of people in Malawi and all across Africa don't have the opportunity to see Elephants! So I designed and built a bicycle-powered cinema and the following Christmas I went back to Malawi to show the film to rural communities - we managed to show 14,000 people the film in just 5 weeks. This was the beginning of Stand Up for Nature and in 2016 a friend and I founded the organisation (www.standupfornature.org).

Throughout 2015 & 2016 I worked with Steve Backshall (BBC Deadly 60 presenter) on four films including one for the BBC One Show.

In 2017, I was named a National Geographic Young Explorer, the Scientific Exploration Society Rivers Foundation Explorer of the year and awarded the Scott Pearlman field award by the Explorers Club. With their support, as soon I had graduated University I headed to Kenya for 5 months to make films about Kenyans doing remarkable things to protect wildlife.

In 2018 I entered life as a professional camera op, and have since worked for Plimsoll, Humble Bee, Offspring, John Downer, Maramedia, BBC and Channel 4. Filming highlights include: lions mating in the Okavango Delta, leopard slug mating, using a specially adapted camera to film CO2 emissions, dwarf mongoose mobbing a cobra and wild dogs hunting with a drone.

In 2022 I was delighted to get a place on the BBC's prestigious Camera Bursary/Junior Camera Operator where I worked on a major landmark series, The Americas for NBCU.

​Further Awards:​

• 1st Place in International Young Garden Photographer of the Year
• 20 further awards and commendations in competitions including; British Wildlife Photography Awards, International Garden Photographer of the Year, Landscape Photographer of the Year, Environmental Photographer of the Year, WWF Earth Hour Awards and New York Conservation Film Festival.