Ray Collins

Ray Collins was working in a camera-shop when a senior BCNZ cameraman offered him a job on the spot. Collins was shooting items for the main evening news his first morning on the job. Based in Dunedin for much of the 15 years he spent with the state broadcaster, Collins shot for Spot On, Fair Go and Wild Track. Collins left TVNZ in 1990, and now shoots and makes programmes from his Dunedin base.

The first movie I went to at the age of 10 made such an impression, I knew before it finished that I wanted to be a cameraman. I never imagined doing anything else. Ray Collins