Ian Fisher is an international award winning maker of television and a keen observer of people. His broadcast career began in BBC radio before moving to television, firstly as a news reporter and presenter in ITV.
After a decade on screen he became Programme Editor of a regional news programme, and then a Producer/Director, making a wide range of programmes from Politics and Current Affairs to Documentary, Arts and Sport. He led the first television crew into Lockerbie after the crash of Pan Am Flight 103, and the programme he made about events of the night earned him the first of his medals from The New York Film & Television Festival.
But within an eclectic remit, his heart lay in Factual, and within that genre, Science & Technology in particular. His hugely successful series Innovators was shown around the world, and dealt with leading edge topics including finding a cure for cancers, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence and the development of the microprocessor. Innovators: Brain Power, an in-depth examination of our knowledge of the workings of the human brain, brought him his second medal from The New York Film & Television Festival, whilst Fat of the Land, an investigation of the obesity crisis, won two awards from the British Medical Association Film Awards. Other recognition came from BAFTA, The Royal Television Society and others.
Don't Look at the Camera is his first foray into long form writing. Although highly experienced at writing for television, he found the task challenging, and the journey from initial idea to finished book has taken several years. He describes it as his first memoir, a recollection of encounters and events during the course of his career, some of which he remembers with pride, some of which he'd prefer to be able to forget.
Throughout, he mostly brings humour to the stories he has to tell. But the laughter stops in the final chapter Dark Days, which details his experiences covering the funeral of an 11 year-old girl abducted and murdered by a serial killer, and the horrific night of the Lockerbie Disaster.
Fisher is currently researching subject matter for his next book.