https://youtu.be/zxvmMgGo6e4 I recently covered the elections in South Africa. I wanted to try and avoid the boring and the cliched so I pitched the above film - young hip-hop artists sharing their views on the different parties as a way to explore the youth vote and why so many young people aren't bothering to... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/itoeoDZifys I haven't made a new showreel for a number of years and so I figured it was about time that I finally got around to editing one. It's a combination of old and new material and I have tried to reflect both my feature/doco work and my hard news filming. All of the sequences... Continue Reading →
I recently shot, edited and directed a mini-doc for the BBC about the coloured (people of mixed heritage) community in South Africa. It was a fascinating story and one I really enjoyed shooting. Thanks to my brilliant colleague, Vauldi, we managed to get great access to the community and also to the police. I shot... Continue Reading →
Johannesburg was built because of mining. The city is surrounded by huge, sandy dumps - a side-effect of the search for gold. I've lived in South Africa for ten years (on and off) and I had never thought about the dumps and what might be inside them. It was only when my colleague, the brilliant... Continue Reading →
I was recently in Zimbabwe to cover the elections. I was there to make films away from the politicians and the hard news. It was fun, until the shooting started. Here are a few short clips from my footage that day. https://youtu.be/EiDHJ_BHoXA As I approached the front of the crowd I found a man who... Continue Reading →
The victorious hunters ran towards town, the stunned deer slung over the big man's shoulders. Panting heavily, draped in kit and soaked in sweat I managed a few shots with my DJI Osmo before nearly collapsing. The zips on my bag were coming loose, I was burning because I'd forgotten both my sunhat and cream... Continue Reading →
I usually work in sub-saharan Africa, I love it and am in no rush to work anywhere else. But, my other favourite part of the world is the Indian subcontinent so when the chance arose to be one of the VJ's working on the BBC "Pop up" project I jumped at it. Pop up is... Continue Reading →
