Roger Horrocks

After graduating from the University of Natal with an Honours degree in Philosophy, he worked in the Online Media and Financial Services sectors before focusing on environmental photography in 2005. 

In 2007/2008, Roger worked as an underwater photographer on the  BBC Nature’s Great Events series, which documented the annual sardine run off the east coast of South Africa. The film, “The Great Tide”, won the Golden Palm award at the 2009 Antibes Underwater Film festival.

In 2009 he teamed up with the underwater cinematographer Didier Noirot and the Foster Brothers/NHU Africa to co-direct and produce a documentary about diving with Nile Crocodiles in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. “Into the Dragon’s Lair” premiered on Animal Plant in April 2010, and won Best Underwater Cinematography at the 2010 BLUE Oceans Film Festival in California. The film has also recently been nominated for Best Cinematography at the 2011 Emmy Awards.

1n 2010, Roger was voted as the Photojournalist of the Year at the Magazine Publishers Associations of South Africa’s PICA Awards.  

For commercial assignments, he is represented by Lampost in Johannesburg.