Jake is wildlife and documentary cinematographer based in Western Australia, who has worked on multiple projects for channels including the BBC, ABC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery and more. He has a love for all things wild and a passion for conservation.

His love for cinematography was initially sparked as a child, watching David Attenborough and National Geographic documentaries in awe of the natural history scenes he was seeing. It was the footage of orcas hunting seals off the beach in ‘Trials of Life’ and what the camera crew did to achieve this iconic scene that inspired Jake to purse a life in wildlife filming.

Jake has now worked around the world working both topside and underwater working on films capturing behaviours of whales, sharks, snakes, turtle hatchlings, illegal fishing implementing an array of filming techniques to capture the stories that move people to care about the world around them. These techniques include underwater filming, time-lapse, gimbals including experience with GSS systems and telephoto methods.

Jake has also worked documenting conservation campaigns for organisations such as Sea Shepherd, Protect Ningaloo, Conservation Council and Western Australian Forest Alliance. These campaigns included anti-whaling, illegal fishing, logging and plastic pollution.

Jake has been fortunate to work with a lot of amazing other DOP’s that have helped guide and train him to be able to tell amazing stories in new and creative ways. They have had different styles and methods which Jake has been able to incorporate into his own methodology and style.