THR Visionary: 5 Janusz Kaminski Shots

THR Visionary: 5 Janusz Kaminski Shots

Try to find a signature Janusz Kaminski “look” and you’ll come up empty. Yes, he likes backlighting and has a penchant for smoke and film-noir style. But the Polish-born cameraman, winner of the 2026 THR Visionary Award for excellence in cinematography, has spent three decades making images that bend to the story rather than the…

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Camerimage Founder Marek Zydowicz on AI, Aronofsky and Why “Cinematographers Are Artists, Not Technicians”

Camerimage Founder Marek Zydowicz on AI, Aronofsky and Why “Cinematographers Are Artists, Not Technicians”

Camerimage, the world’s premier festival devoted to the art of cinematography, turns 34 this year, and it arrives in Torun, Poland, Nov. 7-14, with its founder in both a combative and reflective mood. Marek Zydowicz, who launched the event in 1993 to champion cinematographers and other below-the-line artists the industry treated as mere technicians, is…

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