Back on location with Brian Hill currently working on a BBC documentary about the ongoing pandemic. Stories, music and dance with poetry by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. It’s proving to be a long slog with difficult shooting conditions due to Covid restrictions.
This short film was funded by Creative England and The BFI. The director, Jesse Lawrence, is a good friend of mine who wrote this script based on a real life event when he came across a dead body as a young man. The budget was very tight and everybody pulled together brilliantly to make it … Read more
Working with Director Brian Hill, editor Stuart Briggs and fellow DOP’s Michael Timney and Conor Maloney Hill on a documentary about Drill music. Filming and production has finished on this feature length film for YouTube. Another exciting project with Century Films, working with fascinating characters. Lots of good humour on location and in the studio, … Read more
Very pleased to announce that I was awarded a Fellowship by The Royal Photographic Society in December 2019 for my work in the moving image. The Royal Photographic Society – Roger Chapman
A three-part BBC Documentary series about a Bollywood actress called Jiah Khan who was found dead in her Mumbai apartment. This was a Grain Media production directed by Marta Shaw & Jasleen Sethi and transmitted in January 2021. My part of the filming was on location in London, Mumbai and Pune. We had a great … Read more
A couple of weeks in Mexico with Angus Macqueen to gather some images and shoot some drone footage for his ‘Maradona in Mexico’ series for Netflix. Based in the Sinaloan city of Culiacan in North West Mexico, the home town of Maradona’s football team, Doradas de Sinaloa. It is also the cradle of drug traffickers. … Read more
Once again working with the legendary Leslie Woodhead and Reggie Nadelson on an Eagle Rock Films feature length documentary about the life of Ella Fitzgerald. One of the highlights was filming her adopted son Ray Brown Junior in an emotional interview at Ronnie Scotts followed by a splendid Italian lunch together across the road at … Read more
Spent a few days filming the master interviews for the Channel 4 production, Drag SOS, with Sam Whitaker and Lucy Hillman from Summer Films and director Paddy Wivell. Great fun.
A fascinating insight to the workings of the Foreign Office, filmed when Boris Johnson was the Foreign Secretary. During the filming, director Michael Waldman and I did a whistle stop tour of Europe with the Foreign Secretary during the Brexit negotiations. One of the many extraordinary scenes we filmed with Boris Johnson was one in … Read more
Received a call from Australia, from long time friend, Lavinia Riachi, asking if I would like to work on a film about the Australian artist Sir Sidney Nolan. It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know the life and works of this fascinating man. Filming in London and Rodd in Herefordshire. The studio at … Read more