Field notes
Eight essays · from the fieldNotes from behind the lens Craft
Eight observations from the texture of working as a DOP. The first hour of every shoot is the hour the day is decided.
Documentary as method, not genre Method · forthcoming
Why the best commercial work I’ve shot used the discipline of observation — and what that costs and earns.
The cinematographer as collaborator Industry · forthcoming
What changes for the DOP when generative tools enter the pipeline — and why the distinction was always there.
What 2017 VR saw early History · forthcoming
Notes from inside the medium before the market was ready — and what spatial computing is becoming.
The grammar of immersive Immersive · forthcoming
Blocking, eyelines and cut rhythm when the frame is a sphere and the viewer chooses where to look.
Working across five languages Field · forthcoming
What a set sounds like when direction, performance and crew move between five tongues at once.
From celluloid to computational Format · forthcoming
Shooting the last 35mm black-and-white film at SRFTI, then a decade later capturing a forest as a point cloud.
Ground Truth — a public method Method · forthcoming
Documenting the old-growth BC coast in the open: why the capture pipeline itself is part of the work.