Roger Horrocks

Peter Rowlands · Issue 142, Jan/Feb 2025 · pp. 26–33

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For the last fifteen years, Roger Horrocks has worked as a wildlife cinematographer on some of the most ambitious and acclaimed documentaries ever created, including My Octopus Teacher, Our Planet, and Blue Planet 2, and, most recently, as sequence cameraman for the latest Netflix production, Our Oceans, narrated by Barrack Obama. Roger, thank you for taking the time to consider my questions. Q) To most amateur underwater video shooters, to be able to do what they love, full-time and for payment, is the dream. Does being a full-time professional pierce that dreams with serious responsibilities, an ever- present fear of failure and long periods of inactivity both in between jobs or waiting for the marine life, or are you living the dream? I believe being a wildlife and underwater cinematographer is possibly one of the best jobs in the world. At our work level, you collaborate with incredi…