About Chris Cameron Marine Photography
I started my photography career as a photographers assistant in my home town of Wellington in New Zealand. At the age of 21 I traveled to London where I continued my photography education on the job, assisting several of the United Kingdoms leading advertising photographers.
After three years experience on shoots as varied as fashion, automotive, food and furniture my working holiday visa expired and so I left the UK and began a new career crewing on yachts.
Over the next twelve years I crewed on several classic yachts including the gaff schooners America (a replica of the original America's Cup winner), Puritan, Antares, and more than four years on the three masted staysail schooner Aquarius W. This experience Included many Atlantic crossings, a voyage to Capetown, cruising both coasts of the USA and extended periods in the Caribbean and Mediterranean.
After stints on motoryachts as first mate I returned to New Zealand to continue with photography.
I started my photography business in Auckland as a photographer for the American media company Quokka Sports, contracted to produce the official 2000 America's cup web site. This experience working alongside some of the greats in sailing photography, Carlo Borlenghi, Bob Grieser and Sharon Green was key in influencing my decision to specialise in marine and sailing.
My sailing photography has been critically acclaimed in this very competitive field, my work has been published in the specialist sailing magazines of Europe, the USA, Asia and Australasia.
I believe it is my eye for composition and my technical precision that has been recognised in my work with some of the leading companies in the marine industry. My images have been used in advertising, brochures, posters, catalogues, corporate publications, postcards, calendars and even on stamps.
I am currently working on two books and am under contract to Emirates Team New Zealand as team photographer.
After three years experience on shoots as varied as fashion, automotive, food and furniture my working holiday visa expired and so I left the UK and began a new career crewing on yachts.
Over the next twelve years I crewed on several classic yachts including the gaff schooners America (a replica of the original America's Cup winner), Puritan, Antares, and more than four years on the three masted staysail schooner Aquarius W. This experience Included many Atlantic crossings, a voyage to Capetown, cruising both coasts of the USA and extended periods in the Caribbean and Mediterranean.
After stints on motoryachts as first mate I returned to New Zealand to continue with photography.
I started my photography business in Auckland as a photographer for the American media company Quokka Sports, contracted to produce the official 2000 America's cup web site. This experience working alongside some of the greats in sailing photography, Carlo Borlenghi, Bob Grieser and Sharon Green was key in influencing my decision to specialise in marine and sailing.
My sailing photography has been critically acclaimed in this very competitive field, my work has been published in the specialist sailing magazines of Europe, the USA, Asia and Australasia.
I believe it is my eye for composition and my technical precision that has been recognised in my work with some of the leading companies in the marine industry. My images have been used in advertising, brochures, posters, catalogues, corporate publications, postcards, calendars and even on stamps.
I am currently working on two books and am under contract to Emirates Team New Zealand as team photographer.