About
Ben is U.K. based Director of photography with 30 years experience and a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) .
He studied film in the UK to degree level and then film poduction at Vancouver Film School in the early 90s graduating with with a post-graduate diploma in cinematography.
Ben has filmed projects across many genres including feature length drama, Television docudrama and music promos and has been nominated for BAFTA craft awards twice. His television experience includes 13 years as a principle director of photography on the Emmy award winning BBC series Top Gear and 5 seasons as DOP of the “The Grand Tour” for Amazon Studios
His factual documentary work has taken him extensively through all 7 continents including projects for Nat Geo in Antarctica, and 20 Top Gear/ Grand Tour “specials” with locations as diverse as the magnetic North Pole, and Mauritania. Other credits include the BAFTA/EMMY nominated "Secrets Of the Penguins" for National Geographic, "Our Universe, Water World" narrated by Morgan Freeman for Netflix, "Welcome to Earth" with Will Smith and "Limitless" with Chris Hemsworth for Disney+.
Ben's has extensive experience of running large scale multi camera crews. His ability to foster a creative and collaborative atmosphere amongst colleagues has often been essential to the visual success of a project. Elegant composition, attention to detail, and a considered approach, honed in stills, is expressed in his moving image work.
He can also "run and gun" if the situation requires it. Skills that have served him well particularly during his time on Top Gear and Grand Tour in testing environments and tight schedules with both shows enjoying significant global success and praise for their visuals.
Ben often works as a Director/DOP including 9 global brand films for Ferrari.
Drama credits include the BAFTA nominated BBC children’s drama “Behind Closed Doors” and BBC drama “Thunder Road” written by John Godber and Nic Copus. His B-unit Director of Photography credits include Power TV’s “Day of the Triffids” remake and 2nd unit DOP on the internationally successful TV mini-series, “The Summit”produced by Shaftsbury Films Toronto along with race car photography on Ron Howards "Rush"
When not filming you can find him running with his dog Laika on the South Downs...