Biography

Adventure and travel photographer Robbie Shone photographing Miao Keng, the world's deepest underground shaft.

Adventure, Cave and Travel Photography

Recently chosen as a finalist for the second year running in this years Travel Photographer of the Year competition, Robbie is an award winning documentary travel photographer. He has taken his camera to some of the remotest places on the planet.  With a BA in Fine Art & Photography and a keen interest in adventure, travel and shooting extreme locations,  Robbie has scoured the globe capturing unique images rarely seen by the wider world.

Specialising in caves and capturing stories of exploration as they unfold, Robbie has photographed the ‘deepest’, ‘largest’, ‘longest’ cave systems known and regularly unveils the immense wonder of the world beneath our feet in the national press and magazines around the world. He has covered expeditions to Borneo, China, California, Crete, Portugal, France and Spain, and spent three months in Vietnam with National Geographic Magazine, assisting with the photography for the story on Hang Son Doong; arguably the largest cave passage in the world! His current project involves the photography for a coffee table book on the infamous Gouffre Berger, France sponsored by outdoor equipment manufacturer; Petzl.

Not restricted to photography, Robbie holds the Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA) Level 3 Supervisor certificate which qualifies him to work and supervise people working at height on ropes.  Film and television crews often call upon these skills.  Robbie has worked with the BBC on the fantastic series ‘Earth – The Power of the Planet’, the challenge programme ‘Ultimate Caving’ and the popular children’s programme ‘Blue Peter’. His skills have even been called upon to act as Richard Hammond’s stunt double in a Morrison’s Supermarket television commercial.