I recently finished work with IWC and director Louise Hooper on a new primetime arts series for BBC1. Presented by Alistair Sooke, arts critic for the Telegraph, we were documenting the life and times of Salvador Dali (other progs are Picasso, Matisse and Warhol) and looking at his influence on comtemporary culture. This project really made me reconsider my view of Dali as predominantly a showman. I particularly enjoyed the Spanish shoot, filming in the incredible Dali museum in Figeres, and his house in Cadaques. I also helped director Mark Haliley out with some of his London shoots for the Matisee film. Due to TX early next year.

I recently wrapped up shooting with director Frank Hanly, working on a new BBC series tying in with the 20th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web. We were in San Francisco, New York, London, Estonia and Russia on Prog 2, which looks at how nation states have tried and largely failed to control internet content. Our presenter was (Twitter-holic!) Aleks Krotoski, academic and new tech writer for the Guardian. Fitting for a program about new technology, we were shooting on Panasonic's new 1080 tapeless camera, the HPX-3700, and Cooke S4 prime lenses. www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution

Having taken the Summer off for a much-needed catch up with my life, in August I went back to work in Norfolk on a period drama shoot for Darlow, telling the story of Squadron 303: the rebel Polish pilots who were the best in the RAF and later betrayed and written out of history. As a team we all worked incredibly hard to create a production value far above & beyond the budget. I was working with an excellent director Carl Hindmarch, and had a first-rate gaffer Steve Lindberg and 1st AC Melvin Wright. TX later in the year

In the Spring I found myself across two intense drama shoots for RAW on their hugely successful Banged Up / Locked Up Abroad strand. Both women's stories, I found myself first in Quito with director Virginia Quinn and Producer Tim Riding, then later in Goa & Mumbai with Barbie MacLaurin and Martin Pupp. Both shoots were kind of insane but hugely creative experiences, working with great Ecuadorian and Indian crews. RAW were a joy to work for; run at the top by real filmmakers with experienced freelancers in the production office. We had great support and encouragement to experiment and push the format.

Recently I have been working with director Virginia Quinn and advertising agency Poke on a project called The Teens Speech. The tabloid media are constantly portraying teens as hoodie-wearing, drug-taking, gang-forming, under-age-sex-having, out-of-control delinquents. The aim of this film, broadcast Christmas Day on the homepages of MySpace and YouTube, is to let teenagers have their own say. Filming mostly studio-lit talking heads and some stylised documentary sequences, I have found listening to teenagers all over the country a fascinating and uplifting experience. http://www.barnardos.org.uk/turn_around/the_teens_speech.htm

click HERE for trailer / web gallery under construction

2009 started with the trip of a life time: a wildlife series filmed around five African countries with a hot air balloon! Fronted by Stephen Tompkinson, the programmes looked at human-driven wildlife stories, from the Masaai and their cattle, vets on the Serengeti, croc-trapping in the Okovango Delta, to walking with lions in Zambia. As a team of fourteen we traveled across Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia by convoy and light aircraft, and undertook twelve balloon flights piloted by the legendary Robin Batchelor.

Directed by Frank Hanly and Produced by Becca Harris