Cinematography

It isn’t just Christopher Nolan and a small privileged coterie of Hollywood directors who keep celluloid filmmaking alive. Around the world, indie and amateur cinematographers are choosing the film negative for texture, look and cinematic rigour.

How Indian women cinematographers carved a niche in a male-dominated field

Indian women cinematographers are making waves everywhere from the Oscars to Berlinale. At home, they are bringing technique and care to the craft.

All That Breathes’ co-cinematographer Riju Das: ‘Shaunak, the editors were three kites hovering over a landfill of footages, carefully choosing’

Riju Das, one-third of the cinematographers on Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes', has won the Best Documentary Award at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards. In this interview, Das talks about shooting the Oscar-nominated documentary, which missed out on the Academy Award that went to 'Navalny'.

'Sita Ramam', 'Vikram Vedha' and more: The magic of PS Vinod’s camera

From swoony romances to gritty gangster dramas, the cinematography of PS Vinod, who received the Best Cinematographer award for 'Vikram Vedha' at the recent Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2023, shows that there's more to this job than just capturing pretty scenery.

Who's the Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperer's co-cinematographer who's at the Academy Awards second year in a row?

Delhi boy Karan Thapliyal, co-cinematographer on the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short 'The Elephant Whisperers', returned to the Academy Awards this year after his co-shot 'Writing with Fire' became the first Indian documentary film to win an Oscar nomination last year.

Google Doodles for Eadweard Muybridge

Googlers today will be greeted with a series of fast galloping horses, and as amazed they would be; they would ...