I’m an Underwater Cinematographer specialising in filming creatures great and small - in, on and around the worlds oceans.

Based in Cape Town, I’m an owner/operator of a range of specialised underwater filming equipment including Gates and Nauticam underwater housings for RED digital cinema cameras, as well as specialised custom rigs such as pole-cams and tow-cams - take a look at my gear page to learn more. I offer a wide range of expertise to shoots, with experience as a drone operator and skills in motion control time-lapse work as well as sync / presenter based filming. 

I’m equally comfortable and experienced working with large animals in dynamic situations such as bait-balls or other feeding events, as I am with technical underwater shoots involving rebreathers, underwater time-lapse gear and macro scope systems, in order to cover intimate behavioural sequences from every angle.

Operating from my base in Cape Town, I work on local stories and my stock footage archive - making the most of the exceptional diving on my doorstep here in South Africa, and helping productions to capture these stories for documentaries.

I have been diving and taking pictures underwater since the age of twelve. After participating in a ‘try dive’ with my family whilst on holiday in the Florida Keys, I was instantly hooked and learnt to dive in the UK before going on to log thousands of dives worldwide whilst working in various jobs where my work focused around shooting video and images underwater. For almost ten years I worked as a cameraman for the Save Our Seas Foundation, documenting research projects, conservation initiatives and expeditions around the globe.

From early 2015, I embarked on two intensive years of shooting for the long-awaited follow up to the 2001 BBC series, 'The Blue Planet'.

Spending over 500 days in the field, my assignments took me to twenty locations - from the frozen far north - filming feeding whales, to some of the worlds most remote and pristine atolls documenting life on coral reefs. I was lucky enough to be awarded a BAFTA award as a part of the core camera team on the series. 

You can read more about some of the sequences I worked on in the ‘stories from the field’ area of my site.

Since ‘Blue Planet 2’ I have worked on various other productions including for Nat Geo/Disney+ Hostile Planet, Secrets of the Penguins, Underdogs, BBC; Seven Worlds One Planet, Frozen Planet 2, Mammals, The Americas, Planet Earth III, and also… Blue Planet 3, as well as a number of other productions for other companies.

I have recently starting working in the Immersive media space, shooting with the latest technology to capture stories in an entirely new way - both for headsets and for installation display spaces such as museums and aquariums.

Throughout my career I have been working lucky enough to work with a host of different  conservation and research initiatives, including the Save Our Seas Foundation, National Geographic Pristine Seas, OceanX and the Okavango Wilderness Project.

My work with Pristine Seas takes me to very remote and often unexplored areas in search of unspoilt reefs - documenting their expeditions and the marine enviroments we find along the way.

With twenty years of underwater shooting experience in some of the most remote parts of the worlds oceans, as well as the ability to shoot drone and long lens, I bring a broad set of skills, experience and extensive field craft to any marine shoot.