Roger is a two times Emmy™ and BAFTA award-winning , underwater cameraman. Born in Cornwall, England and based in Sabah, Malaysia, he is a highly experienced Underwater DOP with over 30 Natural History Ocean Sequences filmed in the past two decades.
Over 2021 and 2022 Roger completed two years of work as a series-wide Director of Photography on Our Oceans a landmark five-part series, narrated by Barack Obama, about the world’s Oceans for Netflix. He was a principal Cinematographer on the BBC’s Blue Planet II series (filming 10 stories), Director of Photography on Apple’s Under the Sea Screensavers, and a sequence cameraman on Planet Earth III.
Specialising in Natural history documentary film-making, Roger logged over 600hrs underwater as a principal cameraman on the Blue Planet II series. He filmed ten different stories for four episodes – One Ocean, Coral Reefs, Open Ocean and Our Blue Planet. You can read more about that on Roger’s Blue Planet II blog.
As a Series DOP on Our Oceans Roger filmed eight different stories across the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Arctic episodes and helped craft a coherent style and look for the series with his colleagues Roger Horrocks and Justin Maguire. For more details on his involvement read about his work as a cameraman on Our Oceans
An underwater cameraman since 2001, Roger has experience working in diverse locations and habitats from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the tropics, open ocean and of course coral reefs. His specialties are crafting complex, character-led stories and filming intimate encounters with the worlds biggest animals in open ocean such as humpback whales (Hawaii, Tonga) and sperm whales (Dominica, Sri Lanka, Mauritius). Notable sequences include ‘Percy the Tuskfish’ smashing clams on an anvil for Blue Planet II, Archer fish shooting prey in super slow-motion for Planet Earth III and a story about Veined Octopus living in trash for Our Oceans.
Roger is an excellent freediver with a 30.2m max depth and over five minutes breath-hold. He has logged over 2000 hours on various rebreathers including his rEvo closed circuit rebreather. He owns and operates an 8K Red DSMC2 Helium a Sony FX3 and a 5K Red DSMC2 Gemini cinema camera housed in a Gates Deep Weapon underwater housing has also worked extensively with specialist low-light cameras (Canon ME20) high speed cameras (Phantom Veo), lighting and grip underwater. Roger is an ambassador for Ocean Positive dive company Fourth Element
For a selection of Roger’s recent film work please take a look at his selected credits.
To discuss availability and rates please contact Roger Munns