About Stu McKenzie
Award winning professional photographer, adventurer, veteran, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and former Senior BBC Cameraman.
I have been creating images all over the world for the last 22 years. I have lived with reindeer herders 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle and migrated into the Altai mountains with Kazakh Eagle Hunters in Mongolia. I specialise in documentary photography, mainly telling stories of those affected by climate change. I also design and deliver workshops and training.
My photographic journey began when I was a teenager and my first camera was a Canon AE1. My professional photographic career began when I was serving in the Army, in 1998 I attended the Joint School of Photography and completed a six month in depth photography course. After 24 years I left the Army in 2013, during my career as an Army photographer I worked with Special Forces and Combat Camera Teams, I also instructed at the Defence School of Photography. Upon leaving the Army I worked as a Senior Broadcast Camera Journalist for the BBC, I covered stories all over the world including the refugee crisis and the Paris attacks. I also spent two years in the BBC’s Moscow bureau. My experience in filming headline news stories and documentaries has fuelled my passion for storytelling. In 2018 I decided to go freelance and my business has gone from strength to strength. I am extremely passionate about the environment and cultures living in extreme and remote areas.
