About Chris

C A Parkinson is me, Christian Anthony Parkinson. I’m a Cameraman and Picture Editor working in International News. I love to travel, to take pictures and write about the places I go and the people that I meet. This site is my Scrapbook, an evolving archive of the stories that I cover, the pictures that I take and how I feel about the world around me.

Filming forest fires in Greece, 2007.

I’m from Leicester in England but am currently half way through a two year posting to South Africa.  Being a News Cameraman is a great job and I’ve been lucky enough to see and experience so much in a short space of time. I started my career as a Runner with Channel Five News in the UK with the goal of becoming an On-screen Reporter. Fairly quickly I realized that my future lay behind the Camera and I began to spend my days off going out on shoots and asking every stupid question I could think of. After a stint as a Studio Cameraman at ITN and then as a Multi-skilled Operator at BBC Northwest I finally joined BBC National News in 2004. In the years since then I’ve travelled the world and covered stories ranging from the Beijing Olympics to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s been a fantastic journey and it is still far from over. I hope that caparkinson.com will give you a taste of my life and an insight into who I am.

With Huw Edwards and a group of Soldiers from the Royal Artillery. Iraq, 2007