Roger has worked from the frozen poles to the tropical equator, specialising in immersive imagery of dynamic and fast-moving animals and events. Since 2007, he has worked on projects for National Geographic, Disney Films, Netflix and the BBC, including Blue Planet 2 and Our Planet. He owns and maintains both a Red Helium 8K and Red Dragon 6K Underwater Imaging System and is CCR, TRIMIX, and CAVE qualified.
In 2007, he began working for the BBC Natural History on the Nature's Great Events series directed by Hugh Pearson, and began his apprenticeship under cameramen Didier Noirot and Doug Anderson. During this period, he narrated and co-directed three documentaries with Craig and Damon Foster.
The first of these, "Into the Dragon's Lair", was nominated for an Emmy for best Cinematography in 2010, and the sequel, 'Touching the Dragon", was selected as one of the feature shows for National Geographic's 125th centenary year celebrations. Roger was also nominated for Best Narration at Jackson Hole in
In 2011, he shot his first blue-chip sequence for John Downer's "Earthflight” for producer Rob Pilley. This was followed by a long-term assignment from John Downer to film bottle-nose dolphins for the "Spy in the Pod" series, which aired on BBC One in 2013, and by two sequences for the BBC Atlantic series, produced by Ted Gifford, in 2010.
In 2015 and 2016, he spent 110 days filming for Silverback Films on Disneynature's "Blue", for director Keith Scholey and worked as a second unit DOP on the National Geographic "Into the Okavango" feature directed by Neil Gelinas.
In 2017, Roger was appointed as the underwater DOP on the National Geographic Pristine Seas Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, led by Paul Rose, working for producer Alex Verville.
For Blue Planet 2, released in October 2017, Horrocks received cinematography credits on four of the six main episodes, shooting for producers Jonathan Smith, Katheryn Jeffs and Joe Steven. For his contribution to the series has was awarded a BAFTA for Outstanding Cinematography in 2018.
Between 2015 and 2018, Roger worked for producer Hugh Pearson on the Coastal Seas and High Seas episodes of the Netflix original series “Our Planet”, produced by Silverback Films. He won a nomination alongside cameraman Jamie McPherson for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program at the 2019 Prime Time Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
In 2019, Roger was one of two underwater DOPs hired by Jonathan Smith of the BBC Natural History Unit to shoot underwater screensavers for Apple TV, shooting in Cape Town, Alaska, California and Costa Rica.
In 2020, a film that Roger had worked on with his longtime collaborator, Craig Foster, premiered on Netflix to global critical acclaim. My Octopus Teacher went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2021
Between 2020 and 2023, Roger worked exclusively on “Our Oceans”, which was released on Netflix in 2024, and which was produced by WildSpace/Honeyborne Productions.
More recently, Roger has contributed sequences and imagery to the BBC’s Parenthood, directed by Ollie Scholley, and to Sir David Attenborough’s Oceans, produced by Silverback Films and Open Planet Studios. He also worked on the Real Finding Nemo Series, to be released on the National Geographic Channel in 2027, and an Arctic Series for Netflix, produced by Silverback Films.
