Martin Pailthorpe is a television producer and director with 15 years' experience of making challenging programmes in remote and testing environments.

Projects include working with Ray Mears, Chris Ryanand Bear Grylls, supervising two production teams climbing to the top of Everest, filming with wildlife as diverse as sharksand albatross , and working in temperatures from -35 in Siberia to 110 degrees in the Australian Outback.

From Tibet and China to Australia and New Zealand, from Alaska to the Falkland Islands, he has taken thousands of photographs of the people and places he has visited, and they are displayed on this website, along with those taken closer to his home in the Westcountry.

His films can regularly be seen on The BBC and Discovery Channel.

His photographs can be orderd in a number of formats, from postcards to poster-sized canvasses.