Peter Bucktrout

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Pete Bucktrout is the latest in a short line of photographer/cameramen who ply their trade on the hostile continent of Antarctica. Following in the footsteps of Pontin (who travelled with Scott) and Herbert (who travelled with Shackleton) Bucktrout is tasked with recording still & moving imagery, still seen as of fundamental importance, to both record and explain the journeys and science.

Bucktrout is currently a photographer, digital imaging specialist and film cameraman with the British Antarctic Survey based in Cambridge, England. He has travelled 'south' 7 times to Antarctica over a period of around 17 years, having previously worked for the British Ministry of Defence and the UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Pete Bucktrout recently filmed & edited (in Antarctica) the music video for rock band nunatak transmitted back from Antarctica for Live Earth.

Bucktrout was the cameraman in 1997, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Antarctic Symphony.

Bucktrout is the photographer whose inspiring Antarctic images form the visual content of the book 'notes from a cold climate' ISBN 0-9533730-3-7

Pete Bucktrout provided many of the images and video for Antarctic Waves *[1] a BAFTA award-winning music 'toolkit' for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level students (and equivalent UK qualifications) which uses real science, stunning images and extraordinary sounds from the Antarctic to inspire musical composition. Antarctic Waves is now on release across the UK and was developed by British Antarctic Survey, and creative multimedia company Braunarts.

Peter Bucktrout is the person behind the www.photo.Antarctica.ac.uk on-line image collection.