Richard Fitzpatrick is an Emmy-award-winning cinematographer and a qualified marine biologist specialising in sharks. He has shot more than fifty films for the BBC, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, and is renowned for filming complex behavioural sequences. Richard is known in the scientific community for his unorthodox technique for capturing sharks, catching them by the tail instead of using hooks. He is one of the founders of the natural history film company Biopixel, which has one of the largest biological filming studios in the world, based at James Cook University in Cairns. Richard’s most recent work includes cinematography for David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef.