Doug Allan is a Scottish naturalist cameraman and photographer best known for his underwater and polar photography.
Doug, one of the twin brothers, was born in 1951 in the Scottish city of Dunfermline in the family of a photographer and photojournalist, who ran his own shop selling photographic equipment. As a child and youth, Doug became interested in snorkeling and diving, which inspired him to study marine biology at the University of Stirling, where he graduated with honors in 1973. At the
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Doug Allan is a Scottish naturalist cameraman and photographer best known for his underwater and polar photography.
Doug, one of the twin brothers, was born in 1951 in the Scottish city of Dunfermline in the family of a photographer and photojournalist, who ran his own shop selling photographic equipment. As a child and youth, Doug became interested in snorkeling and diving, which inspired him to study marine biology at the University of Stirling, where he graduated with honors in 1973. At the end of his education, Allen decided that science was not exactly what he wanted, and for several years he worked in various places as a diver, and searched for and even found pearls with Bill Abernathy, the last pearl fisher in the rivers of Scotland. Twice he assisted in research to the marine biological expeditions of Cambridge in the Red Sea.
In 1976, he traveled to Antarctica for the first time as a British Antarctic Survey research diver on Signy Island, and this collaboration lasted for many years - he spent the next four winters and nine summer holidays among the wild polar nature, doing research. In the same period, he first picked up a camera and soon his first film was purchased by the Air Force.
Since then, he has often returned to both poles, making wildlife films for major television networks around the world. Among the documentary and educational films and TV series, the creation of which he was involved – “VBC”. The blue planet,
Air Force. White shark. The Blood Triangle , Air Force. Planet Earth" and "BAF. Sea giants, where he also acted as one of the leading.