These crabeater Seals were asleep in the broken ice besides our ship 8 weeks into our Expedition.
We were deep in the cold, icy Weddell Sea ‘gyre’, one of the world’s most inaccessible places, and close to where Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’, beset…
Read MoreAs part of an ongoing work, and collaboration in East Greenland with the Inuit community - this short film gives a window into a day in the life of Justus, an Inuit hunter from Kulusuk.
Read MoreIn February 2022: Up against so many logistic challenges, Covid, quarantines, the filming kit being bumped from flights - and wind keeping us stuck in the dock at Stanley, in the Falklands:- After a 3 day crossing over the Southern Ocean, we finally made it to King Edward Point in South Georgia, coinciding with the 100 year Anniversary of Shackleton’s death there and we pretty much had the place to ourselves….
Read MoreIt’s an exhilarating experience flying a DJI Inspire 2 drone at night with 2 others doing the same, capturing a swarm of 300 drones during an 8 minute display filled with colour, shape, form and an important message.
Read MoreThe epic story of Victor Vescovo’s mission to be the first person to go to the deepest point in every ocean has been released on Discovery Plus 5 x 45mins. Taking you to each ocean, on an expedition that needed firstly a submersible that could achieve that, that was yet to be invented…
Read MoreDuring lockdown I had the time to put in to some of the photography awards. With some successes which was a good pick me up during those unusual times.
Read MoreIf you want to watch the results of all the drone and sound work I did, plus the beautiful camera work of Paul Williams in Antarctica, it has now been released in the UK.
Read MoreWorking on "A Perfect Planet", narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films, was a career-defining moment for me. The insight the filming gave me into the work of Sea Shepherd, and the opportunity to contribute to both the film and the accompanying book was incredibly fulfilling and aligned with my passion for wildlife conservation.
Read MoreHere is the teaser for a documentary I was involved with as the aerial cinematographer and sound recordist during the Antarctic summer of 2019. It’s first airing this Thanksgiving weekend in the USA. I’m so excited it’s going out after all this time, having been delayed by Covid.
The film is presented by Laurence Fishburne…
During lockdown I have been busy getting together a fine art photographic collection. I have titled this collection Endurance Collection, as I took them in the place that Shackleton’s ship Endurance was recorded to have sunk after being crushed in the ice. Deep within the Weddell Sea gyre in Antarctica…
Read MoreSince lockdown has caused many people disrupted sleep. Here is a long-form film I put together, feel free to share to other non-sleepers.
I made this from footage I shot on my iPhone and edited with iMovie whilst filming out in the Maldives in October 2020 between lockdowns in UK. It wasn’t planned, I am an impulsive image collector, but I enjoyed putting the shots together and making the film one night. I hope you find it chilled and relaxing
In March 2020 I went on a filming trip with ‘Harvard’ to the Falkland Islands as their sound recordist and drone op. We were making 2 short films for…
Read MoreExplorer and master of the deepest points on the planet, Victor’s February 2020 submersible dive was to the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea in the Hellenic Trench. Alongside was his co-pilot and guest, HSH Prince Albert of Monaco on his first dive.
It was fun to be back on-board Pressure Drop, a vessel and it’s crew I know very well…
Read MoreFinally, I’ve been able to spend a few days with my husband away, abet doing a workshop in the heat of Naples in summer.
It is always good to spend time thinking about photography, and our 3 day workshop was really hard work, but full of sound advice. I have done workshops with both Chris and Laura before so when my husband found the workshop on Instagram I was thrilled to join him…
Read MoreThe last couple of jobs have been filming expeditions, that have required me to cover the sound of many people (not necessarily in the same room), unassisted, with multiple cameras, and multi-disciplines, at times I’ve had to go off and fly the drone and cover publicity stills whilst the filming is happening.
Audio Limited’s latest A10 digital radio mics were a vital component in my sound strategy on a 2 month expedition in Antarctica earlier this year, and my current expedition recording sound at the very deepest points on Earth for ‘5 Deeps’ also know as ‘Deep Ocean Challenge’…
Read MoreI’ve just returned from filming the Weddell Sea Expedition covering the first 2 months of this year in Antarctica. The WSE was on 2 missions, to carry out scientific work in the Larsson C area of the Weddell Sea and to search for Shackleton’s ship Endurance that sunk in the Weddell Sea in 1915. If you aren’t familiar with the story it’s worth reading about, as it really was an epic achievement of the failed expedition to stay alive and get to safety.
We were the first visitors to the famous break away giant iceberg A68, but got chased away eventually by a build up of ice floe. The science in this area sampled the ice, water, looked at the phytoplankton and diatoms, salinity, temperature and flow, mud samples, seabed biology, and mapped not only sea floor but for the first time underneath sea ice. As with all new technology…
Read MoreFor the next year I will be working on this film for Discovery. We will be travelling to every ocean to film a record breaking attempt to go to the deepest point in each of the 5 oceans. We should come across some pretty cool creatures too.
Here is the teaser we filmed in August in the Bahamas. I did the drone shots on the Inspire 2 with the X5S camera. (I have just taken delivery of the X7 camera and will report back on the test shots.)
Sound has been captured often on this job purely on the new Audio Limited digital A10 radio mics. These fantastic radio mics allow me to capture sound in the submersible, even when it is at the bottom of the ocean.
Read MoreI have created ‘Extraordinary, Ordinary, People’ with the images I took whilst out in Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2014/15 celebrating the front line workers / healthcare workers during the Ebola crisis.
I have put together portraits with personal stories and articles. In the back ground there are 4 large cloths printed up in black and white illustrating the grim reality of their day to day lives. In the foreground, in colour, is a 1m/1m print of 100 portraits of everyone who worked in the ELWA 2 Ebola Treatment Unit, ETU, in Monrovia, from the security guard to surgeon Dr Jerry Brown who started the ETU. Included on this sheet are 3 people who also had full-page portraits published in Time Magazine in December 2014 ‘Person of the Year’, The Ebola Fighters, edition.
Alongside the portraits are images and text that
Read MoreIn July I was invited to take some pictures at the Andrew James workshop in Batcombe.
Most of the artists regularly attend painting workshops and Andrew James has a long waiting list. For some it was their first time using oils, for everyone it was a successful workshop.
Here is a short photographic film of their work and the atmosphere in the workshop.
Read MoreNews has come through that I will be off to BM19 to complete a photo-story that I have been working on in collaboration with designer maker Richard La Trobe-Bateman and seasoned 'burner' Kurt Westerlund.
At Kurt's invitation Richard has designed the 'Gap' bridge, an exciting design that gives the user not only a physical experience of crossing, but, due to a gap at the top, a metaphorical one too.
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