I’m an award-winning Director of Photography based in London, with over 20 years shooting documentary, commercials and branded content.

My feature documentaries include Getting Away with Murder(s), named The Guardian’s best documentary of 2021; The First Film, nominated for Best Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival; and The Marbles, which critics singled out for their cinematography. I shoot regularly for broadcasters and producers across the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, including ARTE, Channel 5 and ITV.

Commercially, I’ve worked with Ferrari, LEGO, Levi’s, American Express, Trailfinders and The Trainline, and won a Silver Clio for Cinematography on Malaria No More’s Secret CEO. I also shot Good Morning Britain’s 1 Million Minutes campaign four years running.

I started out in live performance, creating visuals for Take That, Little Mix, Shawn Mendes, John Legend and Tears for Fears, and for events including the 2015 Rugby World Cup opening ceremony. That background made me a confident multicam operator who stays calm when there’s no second take.

Don McVey, Director of Photography

CinematographyCamera operation and lighting design

SoftwareAdobe Suite, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion

WritingScript and prose writing

AI ToolsClaude Code / Cowork; advanced video and image generation

Commercial & Broadcast

Good Morning Britain, “1 Million Minutes”

Prod ITV · Dir Jake Wood, Colin Salmon, Ben Miller, Mark Charnock

Malaria No More, Secret CEO

Prod Publicis · Dir Richard Gold

Winner, Cinematography Silver Clio

Hotwolf, various TVCs

Prod Hotwolf · Dir Jamie Lennox

Trailfinders, “I’ve Been Everywhere” (2024 to 2026 campaigns); Protect Your Bubble; MTV UK, Year of Engineering; Crystal Art Buddies; PitPat; Vegan Friendly; Highland Titles

WIX, MCFC

Prod COPA90 · Dir Tom Brown

Commercial doc with Pep Guardiola

Ferrari, 70 Years

Prod Northhouse Films · Dir Tom Bairstow

Cricket World Cup, “Are You In?”

Prod Matta · Dir Thomas Winfield

Featuring Radio 1’s Greg James

Rugby World Cup, 2015 Opening Ceremony

Prod Northhouse Films · Dir Tom Bairstow

Levi’s, Tailor Shop

Prod Drum · Dir Joe Rosen

Series featuring innovators

LEGO, Duplo: Partners in Play

Prod We Are Social · Dir Jimmy Ness

American Express

Prod OMG · Dir Neil Garrett

Short Vine campaign

Sheraton, Delight My Journey

Prod Pebble Studios · Dir Joshua Parsons

Tate Modern, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Prod AKA · Dir Matthew Reed

Aspinal, “Mayfair Collection”

Prod Aspinal · Dir Chris Roberts

Thomas Pink

Prod Digital Natives · Dir Will Dorrien-Smith

The Travel Collection with Neil Laughton

Intimissimi On Ice

Prod Northhouse Films · Dir Tom Bairstow

Visuals for 2016 show

3 Mobile, “Oh the Horror!”

Prod Gravity Road · Dir Tom Brown

Carphone Warehouse, iPhone X

Prod 1000 Heads · Dir Helena Charlton-Jones

With Francis Boulle

Carphone Warehouse, Trade In

Prod 1000 Heads · Dir Helena Charlton-Jones

With London Hughes

Currys PC World, Samsung Tablet

Prod 1000 Heads · Dir Tom Brown

Gumtree, Gumtree Jobs

Prod 1000 Heads · Dir Mat Laroche

With Lucy Watson and Marcel Sommerville

Cadbury FC, Real Crowd Pleasers

Prod Stada Media · Dir Danny Lacey

Blinds Direct

Prod Stada Media · Dir Danny Lacey

National TVC

Perfect Home

Prod Stada Media · Dir Ben Davis

The Trainline, M-Ticket

Prod RGM · Dir Richard Gold

The Trainline, An Easier Way to Travel

Prod RGM · Dir Ivy Jelisavac

Amnesty International

Prod Amnesty · Dir Selina Nelte

Ireland abortion laws

UNIDO, My Mum Is My Hero

Prod Ben Preston · Dir Lauris Beinerts

Hopewiser, The Message

Prod OMG · Dir Neil Garrett

ONE M

Prod OMG · Dir Neil Garrett

Skroppy

Prod OMG · Dir David Waldman

Children’s toy TVC