After immersing myself in the world of Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester during the early 90s, I embarked on a remarkable journey that would define the next two decades of my life.

My focus has been on crafting documentaries for British television, with me taking on the roles of director and cinematographer for a significant 90% of these productions.

I am a BAFTA-winning documentary director, with many major UK awards including the Royal Television Society, Broadcast, and Televisual Awards, and I am an Honorary Lecturer at Manchester University.

My films have taken me deep into some of the world’s most remote and challenging places — from surviving a plane crash in the Brazilian Amazon, to exposing oil pollution in heavily flooded South Sudan, and filming in Gabon’s globally important rainforests with the country’s environment minister (a fellow Mancunian).

n Nigeria, I’ve documented the lives of well-diggers and oil-flare cooks, and in Peru and Brazil the stark connections between poverty and rainforest destruction.

I’ve worked with Buddhist Layap in the high Himalayas of Bhutan, Penan hunter-gatherers in Sarawak, Eveni reindeer herders in Siberia, and migrants in the slums of Lagos, witnessing how global forces reshape lives. In West Papua, I filmed the Korowai people grappling with the pressures of the cash economy.

Along the way: a 700km, 20-hour ride on Mauritania’s iron ore train in 50-degree heat with a salt trader; a village in the Pacific whose people worship Prince Philip — and now King Charles — as a god; an Englishman in Japan whose cultural journey led him, improbably, into a panda suit, tethered to a microlight.

It has been a life of extraordinary encounters — deserts, rainforests, oceans, mountains — and through all of it, the privilege of telling stories that reveal the deeper texture of our world.