After a long career with the BBC's prestigious film department in London, where I shot documentaries and drama, and later as a freelance based in southern Spain, I am now committed to helping the next generation of budding cinematographers by sharing the skills and experience I have been fortunate enough to gain.
The BBC probably had the best training schemes in the world for aspiring programme makers and this was certainly true of the film camera training scheme, which I was fortunate to be accepted for. After a spell in the classroom learning basic theory, the training after that was very much 'on the job' - you worked alongside, and gained invaluable experience from skilled lighting cameramen who were, without doubt, some of the best in the world.
During my career I have shot hundreds of documentary programmes and dramas as well as some of the major series that the BBC is famous for, and in doing so travelled to and worked with people in more than 40 countries.
It is with this experience that I tutor and lecture in all aspects and levels of cinematography at the Lincoln School of Media, University of Lincoln, to undergraduate and graduate students who wish to specialise in cinematography or others following other production paths, who just want to know more and understand better the role of the cinematographer in film and video production.
I am also available to shoot assigments anywhere in the world, either on film or video.
On location in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Spain for 'Horror Weekend'
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