Mr. Davis has worked as a director of photography and/or camera operator on several IMAX and IMAX-DOME feature documentaries such as:
- RING OF FIRE (undersea lava scenes), SEARCH FOR THE GREAT SHARKS.
- The Academy Award-nominated ALASKA: SPIRIT OF THE WILD, WHALES, THE GREATEST PLACES, and AMAZING JOURNEYS.
- The Academy Award nominated IMAX film, THE LIVING SEA.
Davis worked as an underwater camera operator on the Warner Brothers feature film, SPHERE and his production experience includes work on C.L.I.O. Award-winning commercials and CINE Golden Eagle Award-winning documentaries. He is currently working as director of photography for a new one-hour PBS television documentary about gray whales which is being produced by Jean-Michel Cousteau.
Davis' other assignments have included some 17 filming expeditions worldwide for the Cousteau Society television programs as a cameraman aboard vessels Alcyone, Calypso, and special flying teams. For other U.S. and foreign producers he has filmed for ABC, CBS, PBS and Discovery/Learning Channel network documentaries as well as theatrical movies and television commercials.
Davis' photographs have been widely published in magazines such as: LIFE, Audubon, National Geographic, Natural History, Smithsonian, Time, and Scientific American.
Chuck Davis:
Underwater Cinematographer