Lex Fletcher Photographer Videos & Photos Shooting on 7 Continents
San Francisco Bay Area
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ - (650) 766-1605
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.
( Disney Channel ).
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
I'm an independent, award-winning cameraman with experience in video and photo projects for a wide variety of clients. Many video projects for Apple, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Disney. 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.
CNN's first cameraman based in San Francisco covering the Northwestern United States.
Past Press Pass media credentials for the U.S. presidential election.
My camera work has been seen on: NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MTV, ESPN, Hallmark, Showtime, Disney, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime.
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., 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, Sears- Roebuck Foundation, United Nations, YMCA.
(Dance - interviews include: Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Michael Smuin and
interviews at the School of American Ballet (SAB) in New York City).
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, 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
IMDb
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
Climb Against the Odds - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAAOs6dyrw0
Papua New Guinea: New Choices, Ancient Land
Warren Miller - Roller Skiing from his 1984 Ski Country
Some highlights in my career
- Shooting on all Seven Continents of the world.
- 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. Pico de Orizaba, Mexico - Mt Whitney, Mt Baker, Glacier Peak, Lassen Peak, Mt Shasta & Mt Rainier in the winter.
- Former Rogue River whitewater guide.
- Filmed and guided trips on the "Inca trail" to the "Lost City of the Incas" - Machu Picchu, Peru.
- Helicopter aerials in some of the most remote places in the world including Papua New Guinea, Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Tikal, Guatemala.
- Videotaped 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.
- Great Wall of China - followed the wall from Beijing to the Yellow Sea where it meets the ocean.
- Woman drummers in Rwanda - their stories and experience in the Rwandan genocide.
- Filmed in and around the Kremlin walls and Red Square in the dead of winter, Moscow - Russia.
- Four projects in Saudi Arabia over 3 years.
- Several shoots in Egypt, Greece and Cambodia.
- Projects for the San Francisco Ballet, Diablo Ballet, Margaret Jenkins, Battery Dance, OMO for PBS
- Mountains, fjords and glaciers in Patagonia.
- Penguins & iceberg passageways in Antarctica.