Doug Allan is an award-winning wildlife cameraman who has spent more than 20 years filming in some of the planet’s toughest and most extreme environments. He graduated from Stirling University with a degree in marine biology and his love of diving and the underwater environment have taken him all over the world. He worked with the British Antarctic Survey in the South Orkneys and then Halley Station in Antarctica. Here he used cine-film to record his winter with the emperor penguins. The footage was immediately snapped up by the BBC for their series, Birds for All Seasons, and Doug’s filming career began. He has returned to the Antarctic and Arctic countless times, recording behaviour never captured on film before, including polar bears trying to hunt beluga whales.
Doug was principal cameraman on critically acclaimed BBC series such as The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. He has also worked on dramas and obdoc style documentaries like Everest Extreme for Discovery. His photography has won many awards including three BAFTAs, three Emmys, and several WildScreen Pandas. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society Cherry Kearton Photography Medal in 1993 and more recently was made a Fellow of the Explorers Club in New York.
Doug has just published his first book Freeze Frame which features the stories behind his exceptional photographs from the Arctic and Antarctic and giving the reader a real insight to the secrets of life behind the lens.
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