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​I'm a natural history camera op, National Geographic Explorer and award-winning wildlife photographer. I specialise in filming with gimbals, both handheld and car-mounted. I also regularly film with long lens CN20, drone (CAA Licensed), motion-controlled kit and I enjoy filming on the shoulder obs doc and presenters. I am accustomed to working in remote locations for long periods. I have recently filmed for the BBC, Netflix, Apple, Channel 4 and Nat Geo.
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I own a wildlife filming vehicle in Kenya with a Black Arm and Ronin 2 setup, the car also has a low angle filming door. 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. Jamie@standupfornature.org

​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.

Since 2018 I have entered life as a professional camera op. I have filmed lions in the Okavango Delta in Botswana for National Geographic WILD, and various other productions currently under NDA for Plimsoll, Silverback, Humble Bee, Offspring, John Downer, Maramedia and Channel 4. 

​Further Awards:

• WWF Student Earth Hour Award 2017
• New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival Nomination 2015
• 1st Place in Young International Garden Photographer of the Year 2011
• 20 further awards and commendations in competitions including; British Wildlife Photography Awards, International Garden Photographer of the Year, Landscape Photographer of the Year and Environmental Photographer of the Year.