About Simon
On location in India
Simon Lawrence got his first freelance job in broadcast television back in 1997 with Granada TV, at the time they had an affiliation with Sky Television whom he worked with creating mostly motoring programmes. Whilst there he worked with a large number of presenters including Richard Hammond who later went on to star in the BBC programme Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
“I just kind of fell into it, I was writing the odd car test at the time. I’d been in Australia for a couple of months and I got home to a load of desperate messages on my answerphone asking if I could step in as a cameraman, like now, quickly, we had to get this stuff shot! I had been a freelance photographer and photojournalist since I left college, but until then I’d not used or even handled a TV camera. So I said, 'yes'... took the instruction manual home and we filmed the next day. Fortunately, it was useable and they started asking me back,” he said in a recent interview.
Simon has also had some of his work aired on a number of regional ITV Channels and also the Fifth Gear programme on Channel 5.
From 2003 to 2009 he filmed with Professor Lord Robert Winston (Super Human, Child of our Time, The Story of God, Child Against All Odds), who is chairman of the charity, The Queen Charlottes Appeal in London. He made a total of twenty-four films for the charity, in Cuba, India, Egypt and in Jordan filming mostly charity bike rides.
He is the author of two books on photography and three exploring different ways of looking at life and living. Since 1981 he has written extensively for a range of national and regional magazine titles on a range of subjects, and has tutored student photographers in higher education.
“I just kind of fell into it, I was writing the odd car test at the time. I’d been in Australia for a couple of months and I got home to a load of desperate messages on my answerphone asking if I could step in as a cameraman, like now, quickly, we had to get this stuff shot! I had been a freelance photographer and photojournalist since I left college, but until then I’d not used or even handled a TV camera. So I said, 'yes'... took the instruction manual home and we filmed the next day. Fortunately, it was useable and they started asking me back,” he said in a recent interview.
Simon has also had some of his work aired on a number of regional ITV Channels and also the Fifth Gear programme on Channel 5.
From 2003 to 2009 he filmed with Professor Lord Robert Winston (Super Human, Child of our Time, The Story of God, Child Against All Odds), who is chairman of the charity, The Queen Charlottes Appeal in London. He made a total of twenty-four films for the charity, in Cuba, India, Egypt and in Jordan filming mostly charity bike rides.
He is the author of two books on photography and three exploring different ways of looking at life and living. Since 1981 he has written extensively for a range of national and regional magazine titles on a range of subjects, and has tutored student photographers in higher education.
