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Represented by Vision Artists in the UK and Worldwide
+44 20 7439 4657      http://www.visionartists.co.uk/ 
shade@visionartists.co.uk, michele@visionartists.co.uk, chris@visionartists.co.uk

Represented by United Talent Agency for US Drama work
+1 (310) 273-6700 FranciosaP@unitedtalent.com, nick.hawkins@unitedtalent.com, sarah.campbell@unitedtalent.com

Biography

I started my career by making horror films with my friends while in my teens. Shooting on 8mm video and editing tape-to-tape in our schools media department.

After a 3 year TV Production degree, I started work as a freelancer in factual entertainment, in 2002. For many years I worked as a lighting cameraman for TV shows, from MTV Cribs to Blue Peter, countless documentaries, reality shows and children's television. While shooting short films and music videos on the side. I slowly started shifting my career into commercials and drama (it took a while!).

In the past 10 years I’ve become a full-time commercials DOP, with dips into shooting long form. I've spent my whole career with a camera on my shoulder, I’ve never assisted, which means I generally do things the wrong way (while also annoying the hell out of my ACs), and I didn’t go to film school so yeah I guess I’m badly educated too! I’ve very much “felt my way” though my career so far.

In 2020 I was nominated for an Emmy award for Cinematography, for Netflix's The End Of The F**king World. And in 2023 I was invited to join the British Society of Cinematographers.

In 2024 I won and RTS award for my work on Eric, for Netflix. And in 2025 the BSC gave me an award for the same show, in their Streaming/International category. I'm still speechless about that one. I was also nominated for a BAFTA for Eric, I didn't win, but as we all know the real BAFTAs are the friends we made along the way.

I live in East London, just round the corner from where I was born, with my wife Zoe and my dog Chewie.

This photo was taken 6 years ago, my eye-bags are so much bigger these days, no matter how much water I drink.