Biography
2009
Jun Scene City - Singapore: 8-part TV series
Television
In May and June I shot a series in Singapore on digital photography for Channel News Asia, with funding from MediaCorp, with production company Originasians, executive producer Lionel Chok. It was great fun. A link to the trailer is below. More details will follow as this whole video department is under construction; sorry about the rubble. For pictures taken for the series and some production shots, look for Singapore pictures in the Gallery. A DVD is being made of the series, due out early next year.
1989
Dec Namibia
Television
One day at the Sunday Correspondent a story was pitched about the de-horning of rhinoceros – a controversial measure meant to make them valueless to poachers. It tickled the editor, so I got quotes from photographers in South Africa. But they came in so high, it was easy to convince even him it would be cheaper to send me to shoot it. The first day we went tracking we climbed over a cliff and found ourselves face-to-face – well, 30m away, which as close as you’ll ever get – to a de-horned female with her baby rhino. We didn’t dare to move in case we alarmed the mother to charge us, then she’d surely plunge over the cliff. I found I needed my tele-converter and it was in the camera bag, under Velcro fastening. You would not believe how noisy Velcro is when you want to be quiet. And rhinos have extraordinarily good hearing. Anyway, the journalist had an aberration and wrote a poor story delivered very late. Fortunately I had also shot a nice story on the Himba, so we ran that instead, and never published the rhino story.
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