Cliff Watson, Hawai'i based cameraman.
Cliff Watson has more than 30 years experience as both a still photographer and a broadcast lighting cameraman. He has worked for both local and national news organizations and in 1989, launched his own video production company CDW Productions. CDW provides broadcast camera, lighting, audio and editing services.
A veteran newsman, Watson is recognized in Hawaii for both his artistic skill and his ability to get a story and get it on the air. Since leaving broadcast news, Watson has built a large clientele of freelance clients including ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, ESPN, the Disney Channel, BBC, and Japanese broadcasting companies NHK, NTV, TBS, and Fuji-TV. Also KHET/Hawaii Public Television and numerous commercial, government and non-profit organizations and agencies.
Watson's more notable assignments include sailing aboard the voyaging canoe Hokule'a to document the vessel's voyages throughout the South Pacific, covering the Kobe earthquake in Japan for the BBC, and traveling to China for a television documentary on the ancestral home of Hawaii's Chinese citizens.
He also has experience as a writer and producer, filling those roles and that of a photographer on the documentary "Ka'u Sugar: A Town Remembers" which chronicled the closing of one of Hawaii's most famous sugar plantations and the effect that closing had on the rural community of Pahala.
An experienced, highly skilled and versatile photographer Cliff Watson brings the highest sense of professionalism and a passion for excellence to all of his projects.