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Barbara started as a photographer then moved to shooting

​documentaries and commercials. 


Her camera operating and lighting work includes high end studio based commercials 

for major brands including:

Office Shoes, Saatchi and Saatchi - Winkle Films, Warner Bros, Accenture, Bose Audio etc.

along with stories and programme idents for Discovery requiring helicopter filming around the city including up and under the San Francisco Bridge !

 Office Shoes commercials. Red, HD, Super 8mm and Digital - mixed media.

         Builders and the Games. The Olympic Authority. Director Margaret Dickinson.

​          Award winning documentary about safe guarding the construction workers working on the 2012 Olympics.

Filming for various charities and broadcasters looking at environmental, cultural and social issues world wide including; 

BBC World, Television for the Environment, 

the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 

Action Aid,

Plan International, the National Trust, Oxfam,

Family Rights Group, Save the Children, the NHS, the NUT and RMT, 

​IPPF, BPAS, University of London Medical School, 

Oxford University and the Open University etc.


 Barbara has worked as a shooting director on many documentaries abroad landing in sometimes difficult circumstances with little support. 

Selected Credits include:

Intangible Heritage.  Lighting Camera BBC World

Storytellers of Djemma el Fna Square, Marrakesh.


Earth Report - Down to Earth.   Camera Director  BBC World

The farmers and NGOs intent on re-greening the sand blasted Sahel in Burkina Faso and Mali.

 

World Challenge.  Camera Director  BBC World

Programmes about projects promoting local employment and sustainability 

including filming in the IRRI World Rice Bank near Manilla.

 

Ashden Awards.  Camera Director  BBC World

Environmental stories on alternative energy projects and the innovators in India, Inner Mongolia and Chinese Tibet. 

  

Children on the Frontline.   Camera Director   BBC World with Plan International. 

How children in the Philippines are learning to cope with landslide, typhoon and other 

natural disasters and leading their community to safety in the Ring of Fire. 


World Challenge International competition. Camera Director  BBC World 

Filming the prize winning entries - Uganda, Rwanda and the Philippines. 

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