Shaun Jeffers
Photographer
Photographer who rose to fame for his photography of the Lord of the Rings' Hobbiton film set in New Zealand. He was named the 2016 New Zealand Geographic Landscape Photographer of the Year by New Zealand Geographic for his natural landscape photography work.
He earned his bachelor's degree in film and TV production from Liverpool Hope University in 2011.
His A Light in Dark Places photography project went viral in 2016, and was profiled in BuzzFeed, BoredPanda, and the Huffington Post. He has seen his Instagram audience grow to more than 80,000 followers.
He was originally born and raised in Liverpool, England.
He has taken photos of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings' Hobbiton set regularly.