Shaharbin Aboobacker — Director of Photography
Selected cinematography · silent · Kara’s Vic

Shaharbin Aboobacker

Director of Photography Immersive · Documentary · Narrative · Commercial Vancouver — working worldwide
In development

Ground Truth — volumetric documentary research, BC coast

Selected work

Six films · full credits in About

2022Kara’s Vic — Aerial Dance Studio

Cinematographer · Performance · 1:13

2021Andhropa — album promo

Cinematographer · Music · 2:07
Frame from Pratibimb — a low-light interior composition shot on ARRI Alexa XT Watch on YouTube

2020Pratibimb — A Reflection

Director of Photography · ARRI Alexa XT · 2.39:1 · 4.6M+ views

2015Chevrolet — Trailblazer

Cinematographer · Commercial · One World Play Project

2017Kotak 811 — Quick Recharge

Cinematographer · Commercial · Kotak Mahindra Bank

2017Daler Mehndi — Jaan Meri Dance Kar Le

Cinematographer · Immersive · Samsung Gear VR · 360°

Selected clients & platforms

Twinings London · Samsung VR · Amazon Prime · Hero MotoCorp · Chevrolet India · Kotak Bank · Star Sports · NFDC India

About

Vancouver · sixteen years

Behind the camera since 2008, across 35mm, digital, 360° stereoscopic and volumetric image systems. PG Diploma, SRFTI Kolkata, 2013; among India’s early production-grade 360° cinematographers, 2016–18, on a custom-built aerial rig; streaming long-form for Amazon Prime. Since 2022, Vancouver — building a volumetric capture pipeline at Alpenglow Studios, with generative image studies as ongoing R&D. Current project: Ground Truth, in development. Full biography and credits →

Rotten TomatoesProfile

Commissions and conversations

For producers & directors — reel above, work above, brief in the form. Based in Vancouver, available worldwide.

For agents — currently independent. Representation conversations welcome: mark “Representation,” or write direct.

BasedVancouver, BC · working worldwide
This is about
Current project · In development · BC coast 48–54°N

Ground Truth — a record meant to outlast the trees.

Old-growth temperate rainforest of the British Columbia coast: conventional cinematography, drone photogrammetry, neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting on one production line.

RED·Drone photogrammetry·NeRF·Gaussian splatting
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