Jackie Higgins grew up by the sea in Cornwall and has always been fascinated by the natural world. She is a television documentary filmmaker and writer. She studied zoology at Oxford University, where she studied under Richard Dawkins. In her first job at Oxford Scientific Films, she spent ten years making wildlife films for BBC programmes such as The Natural World and Wildlife on One, as well as for Channel 4, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. She then joined the BBC for the next decade, working in the science department, researching and writing, directing and producing films from Horizon to Tomorrow’s World.
She is also the author of three books about photography, which is her personal passion: The World Atlas of Street Photography, Why She Shouldn't Be in Focus: Explaining Contemporary Photography, and David Bailey: Look.
