Tom McShane
Expedition Team Leader
Tom's Story
Tom has been fortunate to have operated in some of the wildest and remotest destinations on the planet; travelling to and working in almost 100 countries on six different continents and in all environments.
He is an award-winning photographer, an experienced expedition leader, travel consultant, producer, director, and location manager for TV productions.
Tom served in the British Army where he led Combat Camera Teams to areas including Iraq and Afghanistan and was responsible for placing stories involving the Armed Forces in the
international Press.
He then set up Tom McShane Photography and worked as a freelance
Expedition Leader.
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Tom was Production Photographer, Expedition Leader and Location Manager for the world-first expedition Walking the Nile.
This was filmed for a Channel 4 documentary series and Tom’s images
of this expedition have been published worldwide, on front covers of best-selling books, magazines and newspapers.
Tom went on to manage the hugely successful second series
Walking the Himalayas.
The renowned series of videos for Jägermeister, called the Ice Cold Gigs, were planned, produced and directed by Tom. He had sole responsibility for the photography and led the video which won a Guinness World Record for performing the first-ever gig on a moving Iceberg in Greenland!
Tom McShane has won and been nominated for several awards.
As a successful photographer, his portfolio of the Mundari tribe in South Sudan resulted in him being shortlisted in the finals of the prestigious
International Travel Photographer of The Year and his photographic study on the
loss of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan gained him second place in the
Professional Portfolio category of the Wanderlust Travel
Photographer of The Year.
Tom has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society and now works with North Star Safety Group where his most recent production was acting as the safety officer on the documentary Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba.
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