Paul Cox

Since starting his freelance career in 1991, Paul Cox has worked on a wide range of documentaries from Jonathan Lewis's 4 part series about modern China to Frank Simmonds' Organ Farm - an award-winning 3 part investigation into the secret, billion-dollar world of xenotransplantation made for PBS and ITV.

He has photographed Arts documentaries (Renaissance Secrets, Hidden Treasure Houses), factual reality shows (US Wife Swap, Secret Millionaire) and presenter/celebrity led shows (Ramsey’s Best Restaurant, What Not to Wear, How to Look Good Naked, Wish You Were Here?). Over the years he has shot current affairs programmes (Panorama, Dispatches, This Week) with many producer/directors including Stephen Scott and Howard Bradburn.

He also has extensive experience of fly-on-the-wall style documentaries that includes the BBC's Bafta award winning series on the National Trust, How the Other Half Learns and When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum - a one hour documentary made by the BBC that featured the former Conservative Party Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Portillo, taking over as the 'single mum' of family of four in a run-down district of Liverpool.

He has filmed and directed a number of short films including four shorts for Jazz Alive featuring Soweto Kinch and Orphy Robinson (a co-production with Big Heart Media) and Concrete Liaisons – a documentary record of an Art installation for the artist, Jane Boyd. He is currently working on a film about the artist and sculptor, Steve Dilworth.

Over the years Paul Cox has done corporate work for Christies, Ernst & Young, Vodaphone, Sun Alliance, Greenhall, AMEC, the Met Office, Seagrams, Bombay Sapphire, Unilever and British Airways.