Emmy award winning underwater cinematographer Charles Maxwell is living in Cape Town, South Africa has been diving for over 40 years and therefore has an excellent knowledge of the South African marine environment as well as contacts in the documentary and scientific communities.
Charles began his career in underwater filming in 1987 while assisting Swiss filmmaker, Gerald Favre. Since then he has worked with many production companies worldwide.
Working with the sea can be frustrating and sometimes dangerous but mostly rewarding. It is not all about tropical islands and warm water and sometimes involves spending many cold hours underwater often on your own. While Charles specializes in documentary films about sharks, whales, dolphins and the Cape fur seals that are abundant in the cold water near Cape Town where he lives, he spends a lot of time along the coast between Cape Town and Mozambique.
Charles was a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award winner in the category Outstanding Cinematography for work done for The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, produced by the BBC / Discovery Channel. In 2006, Charles filmed rays feeding on squid for the BBC's Planet
Earth: Shallow Seas.
Charles Maxwell’s footage can now be licensed through Aquavision’s Natural History Library. stocklibrary@aquavision.co.za
