About

Ian tells stories through spectacular images, his work straddling the gulf between fiction and non-fiction, documentary and drama.  His assignments range from meticulously executed commercials to dynamic, sixteen-camera unscripted projects to month-long arctic and mountaineering expeditions and network TV drama.

Ian's projects have taken him from the jungles of New Guinea to the ice floes of Canada's Arctic to the thin air of the Argentinean Andes at 21,000 feet.  His work has been recognized by many awards including Emmy and Wildscreen Panda awards for Outstanding Cinematography.

Utilizing innovative techniques and equipment for his projects, Ian is a certified in Cineflex, Shotover, MotoCrane, DJI (Ronin 2, RS2) and Steadicam systems and selects from a wide range of cameras including Arri, Red, Phantom, Sony, Panasonic and Canon.  He works extensively with motion-control time lapse, remote head, helicopter and drone aerial and stabilized gimbal systems.

Ian is a former adjunct professor of Advanced Cinematography and continues to lecture and teach workshops and contribute to publications including The New York Times and Canadian Cinematographer. He also often designs and creates custom solutions for problems like “how to film inches from a polar bear at midnight using only moonlight for illumination?”. This curiosity also let to Ian’s invention of the MultiTurret which won an award for innovation at the 2019 NAB.

Ian holds a US 01 visa.  He is physically fit, an active mountaineer, and married father of two children.  His childhood hero was Tin Tin.

Special Skills

·      Phantom High Speed, Motion Control Time Lapse, Cineflex/ Aerial expert, Phantom UAV pilot/ camera op.

·      Experienced rock climber/ mountaineer- rigging and rope-work specialist

·      Downhill skier, canoeist, on/ off road cyclist, sea kayaker.

·      International Assignments: Arctic Canada & US, Argentina, China, Inner Mongolia, Vietnam, Ecuador, Morocco, Jordan, Costa Rica, Columbia, Nepal, Mexico, Pau Pau New Guinea, S. Korea, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Russia, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Western Europe Australia, Denali, Aconcagua.

·      SCUBA certified (PADI Advanced/ Dry Suit)

·      Red Cross Wilderness First Aid, AST-1 : 2017

·     Canadian Advanced RPAS (Drone) pilot. Controlled Goods Certified

·      Former Adjunct Professor of Advanced Cinematography:  UBC, Simon Fraser University