20 May 2006
Gavin - Photographer & Videographer
From: the UK
Unlike a surprisingly large number of people that I meet on Greenpeace boats I'm not multicultural and dont speak two or three languages fluently. I'm the typical Englishman. Born in London, always lived in England and only speak one language, English!
I first worked with Greenpeace 13 years ago when they were looking for an underwater cameraman and photographer to dive on Driftnets at 3am in the morning. A mutual friend suggested he might know someone mad enough to do that and so my Greenpeace life began. Since then I've dived on every kind of fishing net you can think of, taken samples from undersea nuclear pipelines, camped on the arctic sea sea ice, swam with whales and been shot at by fishermen. Life as a Greenpeace cameraman can be unpredictable but rarely dull.
I specialise in underwater and underground filming and photography, equally happy behind a video or stills camera. When I'm not working with Greenpeace I spend my time either beneath the waves or down caves working for clients such as dive magazines and the BBC with the odd very boring corporate video shoot thrown in to pay the bills...
I love the challenge of trying to find new ways to film and photo things often building specialised filming rigs to the get the shot and Greenpeace offers many opportunities to meet these challenges. Onboard the Esperanza you're as likely to find me in the engineering workshop building yet another strange camera mount as in the edit suite or photo room.
Diving with sharks... no problem.. flying my motorised paraglider.. no problem.. underwater caves.. no problem.. spiders... utterly terrifying...
You can see some more of my work for Greenpeace and others on my website at: www.underworld-productions.com
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hmph, one of these days we end up on that ship at the same time again, until then, it's musical chairs!
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Posted by: Sari at June 1, 2006 10:37 PM
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