Nigel Bluck

Cinematographer Nigel Bluck has shot a raft of acclaimed features, television shows, music videos and commercials. He studied film at Ilam in Auckland, before winning a place at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. By then he’d already shot his first feature, Kiwi pool drama Stickmen. Since then he has worked largely overseas — including on award-winning dramatic features The Home Song Stories and The Tree in Australia, and in America, HBO’s anthology crime series True Detective (seasons two and three), indie feature The Peanut Butter Falcon, and Nicolas Cage comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. 

A cinematographer should be a collaborator and should be there to more than just photograph the film. They are there to get inside the director’s head and help them bring a vision to life with images. They are there to help and guide the director on what the best way forward is visually — I really believe that. Nigel Bluck on his role as a cinematographer, Australian Cinematographer magazine, March 2017