Who we are
An ex-forces creative team
Founder Gareth Davies served in the Royal Navy; the rest of the crew brings a mix of business, documentary and adventure-sports experience. Grey-man, black-on-black, no fuss.
Before GD Media, Gareth served in the Royal Navy — where resilience, discipline and staying calm under pressure stopped being buzzwords and started being the job. He brings that straight into the work.
He started GD Media on one belief: any idea can be turned into a strong, honest story. His focus is the human element of a project, not the trend of the week. Calm on set, hard to rattle, and set on getting the shot.
Rich ran a social care provision across the South West before moving into media — which is where the leadership, organisation and people skills come from. Creativity has always run alongside it: 30-plus years as a semi-professional bass player, and more recently a YouTube woodworking channel.
At GD Media he keeps the operation running day to day and works as a camera operator — business head and a steady pair of hands behind the lens.
Jess shoots on one principle: the best images come from real moments. With a creative background and a love of the outdoors, she blends documentary honesty with fine-art detail.
Her style is quiet and deliberate — she reads a room, waits for the moment, and gets it. Less posing, more reality, properly captured.
Chris has worked across the world and built a name in adventure-sports media — shooting from mountains to open ocean.
His work is authentic but polished, and he's good at finding the story behind the shot. Send him somewhere awkward with a camera and he comes back with footage you can actually use.
Every project starts with your goals, not our showreel. We work out what you actually need, plan it properly, and shoot it once — properly. Photography and video from the same team, so the stills and the film tell the same story instead of clashing.
We’re a small, experienced crew, including a CAA-qualified drone team. We’re not the £200-a-day “mate with a camera,” and we won’t pretend to be. If you want media that holds up when it matters, that’s the job we do.
Brand film, social content, an event, a drone shot you can’t get any other way — give us the brief and we’ll tell you straight how we’d shoot it and what it costs. We’re a small, experienced crew, not the cheapest option in the county, and the work shows it.
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