Marc Bow

WORK HISTORY

SKILLS

ABOUT MARC BOW

My father once told me “a jack of all trades, is a master of none.” So I gave up on being an airforce pilot, a pro golfer and a footballer and focused on another passion, photography. I spent the first five years of my career as an assistant photographer to a master of his craft. I learned the important skills of making client\'s coffees, collecting the film, setting up lights, loading cameras, and the most stressful of all, choosing the lunch. After 5 years as my masters apprentice he declared I’d finally become a decent photographic assistant. With that confidence and his blessing I ventured into a career in freelance commercial photography shooting magazines, brochures and advertising campaigns, photographing people, products, sports and a lot of cars. After 10 years honing the craft of photography in pursuit of the title master, I began wondering what those still pictures would look like if they moved and I tried video camerawork. This ultimately led to a parallel career directing and producing broadcast television shows, as well as many other forms of film production. The photographic and film work has been kind and I\'ve been fortunate to travel on assignments all over the world, often in crazy inhospitable places like Antarctica at the bottom of the world and the infamous Eyafekhlyukl volcano in Iceland that brought European aviation to a standstill once. I\'ve been commissioned to tell stories at events like the Dakar Rally, FIFA World Cup and Le Mans and I’ve travelled round the world working on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race as well as four editions of the Volvo Ocean Race. Brands like Red Bull, Williams F1, Elle, Volvo, Porsche, and Revlon amongst many others have commissioned me to shoot their stories and personal highlights have been working with Brad Pitt and the late “Madiba”, Nelson Mandela. The sum of this varied experience is @SkatterlingsMediaWorkshop based in the UK where we specialise in content creation for broadcast and online film production, photography, animation, design, social media management and comms. In 2023 I co founded Sixteen Degrees South Content Factory to specialise in content creation with a nautical slant and 16DS were appointed as the Clipper Round the Word Race’s production agency for the 2023-24 and 2025-26 edition of the race around the world. I also work as a freelance producer and cameraman for various production companies, channels and agencies in the hope that one day someone will tell me I’m not a jack of trades, but the master of a some.