San Francisco Bay Area
Lex Fletcher Photographer - creating videos & photos on 7 continents
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ - (650) 766-1605 - Scroll to bottom to see Photo Gallery
My experience
I am an award-winning photographer with many years of experience creating videos and still images for broadcast television, corporations and nonprofit organizations. I have worked mainly as a cameraperson but also as a producer, director, and editor on many projects.
My work includes everything from quick, small web projects to hour-long broadcast documentaries, and every conceivable thing in between. I am also able to direct, edit and produce, depending on the complexity of the project.
Education
Stanford University, Master of Arts, Communications, Film Broadcasting
California State University, Sonoma, BA Sociology
California State University, Sonoma, BA Art, Cinematography
Awards
Two National Daytime Emmy Awards and nominated for a 3rd Emmy.
Many of the projects I have worked on have won numerous awards & recognition from film & video festivals
Distinguished Alumni Award Sonoma State University.
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ - (650) 766-1605
What I do
Lex Fletcher is an independent, award-winning cameraman with lots of experience in video and photo projects for a wide variety of clients. Having shot in all 7 continents, many video projects for Apple, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems. Also projects for the Culinary Institutes - Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Teva Pharmaceutical, Bare Escentuals and CSI
( Computer and Structures, Inc.) and many independent documentary films.
Broadcast
I have been the cameraman for various stories including documentaries, news, travel and sports for cable & network television.
CNN's first cameraman based in San Francisco covering the Northwestern United States.
Past Press Pass credentials for the United State Presidential campaign
My camera work has been seen on: NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MTV, ESPN, Hallmark, Showtime, Disney, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel.
Corporate
Accel Partners, Accenture, AOL-Time Warner, Apple Computer, Applied Material, AT&T, Autodesk, Banana Republic, Bank of America, Bare Escentuals, Bechtel, Bio-rad Laboratories, Broad Street, The California Parks Companies, Chevron USA, Cisco Systems, Citigate, Crux Biomedical, Cunningham, Computers & Structure, Cookin-Up, Credit Suisse First Boston, Culinary Institute of America, EPRI, Esurance, The Gap, General Electric, Google, Hewlett-Packard, I-motors, Intel, IVN, Marine World Africa USA, Marriott Corp., Microsoft, Monsanto, Oracle, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, PayPal, Phillips, Potomac Electric Power Company, Reader's Digest, RSA Data Security, Roche, SBC, Southern California Edison, SRI, Stanford Children's Hospital, Stanford Micro Devices, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, Sunset Magazine, Sony Playstation, Tandem Computers, Teva, Unilever, Verifone, Verizon Wireless, Vulcan , Warner Bros. Pictures, Warren Miller, Wells Fargo Bank.
Government and Military
US Air Force,
USDA Forest Service.
Royal Commission of Saudi Arabia,
( Past -Top Secret security clearance)
Non-profit
Battery Dance, Breast Cancer Research Fund, California Academy of Sciences,
Children's Cancer Research Institute, Diablo Ballet, Easter Seals,
Grizzly Creek Ranch (Sierra Health Foundation),
San Francisco Ballet Company, Sears- Roebuck Foundation,
United Nations, YMCA.
Name Dropping - some of the people I've photographed/videotaped
I've videotaped well over a thousand interviews, some of the people I've photographed or videotaped include: Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Dr. Erich Schmidt, Larry Ellison, Meg Whitman, Bill Walsh, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, Quincy Jones, Ted Kennedy, Cesar Chavez,
Katherine Graham, Arnold Schwarznegger, Robin Williams, Dianne Feinstein, Sally Fields, Michael Smuin, Dan Aykroyd, Bryan Cranston. George Lucas, Frank Gehry, Buzz Aldrin, Carrie Fisher,
Steven Spielberg, and Tom Hanks.
Less famous - but also very amazing, are some remarkable people I've met doing documentaries
for the Breast Cancer fund, YMCA, Battery Dance and Easter Seals.
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ - (650) 766-1605
More photos on Zenfolio
YouTube
Easter Seals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7yKlMrNFMQ&feature=youtu.be
Kauai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YeHP5OzFxg
Sweet Dreams (Rwanda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_9MvvBSbNg
San Francisco Carnaval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWReuHzzjw
Moving Stories
http://www.wildernessfilms.us/movingstories.html
California YMCA Youth & Government
Model Legislature & Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCSq0xCO4bE
Papua New Guinea: New Choices, Ancient Land
Warren Miller - Roller Skiing from his 1984 Ski Country
IMDb
Some highlights in my career
I have shot on all 7 continents.
CNN's 1st Northern California cameraman - Presidents, Governors, Senators, Mayors, Celebrities and News.
Videotaped climbs of Denali in Alaska (x2), Mt Fuji in Japan (x2), Mt Huascaran, Peru. Also climbs of Pico de Orizaba, in Mexico, Mt Rainier, Lassen & Shasta in the winter. Former Rogue River guide.
Filmed and guided trips on the "Inca trail" to the "Lost City of the Incas" -Machu Picchu, Peru.
Aerials in some of the most remote places in the world including Papua New Guinea, Iguazu Falls,
Argentina/Brazil and Tikal, Guatemala.
Video tapped some of the best chefs in the world including Ferran Adrià, José Andrés, Iron Chef Matsaharu Morimoto, Thomas Keller for The Culinary Institute of America.
Followed the Great Wall of China from Beijing to the Yellow Sea.
Woman drummers in Rwanda - their stories and experience in the Rwandan genocide.
Filmed in and around the Kremlin and Red Square in the dead of winter, Russia.
Several project in Saudi Arabia (x4) and the ancient ruins of Egypt, Greece and Cambodia.
Projects for the San Francisco Ballet, Diablo Ballet, Margaret Jenkins, Battery Dance, OMO for PBS.
Penguin in Antarctica, Mountains in Patagonia.