ZEISS Full Exposure

Last November, in New York City, the Manhattan editors workshop held its fifth consecutive evening entitled sight sound and story the art of cinematography. 

Jim Kamp was invited to moderate a chat w…

On our final episode from New York, we were joined by fashion photographer, portraitist, designer and concert musician, Aleksandr Karjaka.  He extols the similarity of photography and music by descri…

Jason Vong and Vivienne Lee are not just content creators, but workshop leaders, hybrid film - photo shooters and popular influencers. 

Their engaging YouTube banter and tech tips have helped them ga…

Brian Matiash is a widely published photographer, author and Zeiss Ambassador based in Utah who fuses landscape and travel photography with experiential storytelling and educational ventures helping …

Growing up in New York City, cinematographer Charles Libin absorbed the gritty, seventies-era filmmaking of movies made in Manhattan like “Taxi Driver”, “Mean Streets”, and “Dog Day Afternoon”.

The B…

In this week’s episode, you’ll learn about the how the collaborative process between artists of different disciplines — photography and dance — unfolds and how the image-maker balances pre-visualizat…

On episode 44, we spoke with Katrina Medoff and Tracy Sayre, co-founders of the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge and got a crash course in how a great idea blossoms into launching a collaborative film …

Learn how DoP Alexa Wolf uses her skills to create a potent visual style with little budget for the music video “Paths” by artist Jenna Kyle directed by Rachel Kessler.

Like many Directors of Photogr…

Learn how DoP Alexa Wolf uses her skills to create socially focused visual storytelling on the set of “The Gathering”.

Like many Directors of Photography, Alexa Wolf came to cinematography, in New Yo…

Daresha Kyi is an award-winning filmmaker who writes, produces, and directs for film and television. Earlier this year at the South by Southwest Film Festival we chatted with cinematographer, Amy Ben…

For the last of four interviews from Hollywood, we spoke with legendary cinematographer Dean Cundey. To multitudes of cinephiles, Dean’s career as a visual storyteller needs no introduction. From his…

On the third installment from Hollywood, we had a chat with Bill Bennett, ASC.

As a pilot and cinematographer for over two decades he has shot in a range of challenging environments and has been call…

“Every click of the shutter is a totality of the music I’ve heard, the love and pain I’ve seen and lived, and has shaped the way I see.” — John Simmons, ASC

On part two of our series of interviews at…

On the first of four episodes at The American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse we speak with six-time past President of the ASC, Brooklyn-born Director of Photography Richard Crudo.

His impressi…

On episode 36, we sat down with New York-based - Italian-born cinematographer Valentina Caniglia, AIC IMAGO.

Encouraged by her dad when he gave her a camera at a young age, she was drawn first to sti…

On episode 35 of Full Exposure, we speak with James Cawley a director-cinematographer from Utah specializing in outdoor recreation and tourism films. Working with small crews, he traverses the state …

The New Haven 48 Hour Film Project is a crash course in speed filmmaking. On episode 34 of Full Exposure, learn from a veteran TV and film producer how speed-filmmaking can help hone your film produc…

On episode 33 of Full Exposure, we sit down with Boston-based photojournalist and filmmaker Lauren Owens Lambert who documents her passion: the human aspect of conservation and climate change researc…

On episode 32 of Full Exposure, New York City-based photographer and documentary filmmaker Amy Elliott discusses how persistence and innate curiosity are two elements instrumental in effective non-fi…