He was educated at the University of Copenhagen and the newly founded National Film School of Denmark as a cinematographer.
[1] In the first half of the 1970s he worked with Danish directors Jørgen Leth and Henrik Stangerup.
In 1971 he won a Bodil Award for his cinematography on Stangerup's Giv Gud en chance om søndagen.
In 1971 Camre became the leader of the cinematography line at the Danish Film School and in 1975 he became its principal, a position he held until 1992.
In 1992 he moved to England to be the principal and chief executive of the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.