Bradford Young

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Bradford Young

Born 1977-07-06 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Bradford Marcel Young, A.S.C (born July 6, 1977) is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on the films Selma, A Most Violent Year (both 2014), Arrival (2016)—which earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography—and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), as well as the Netflix miniseries When They See Us (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bradford Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Behind the camera

Black America Again poster
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A visual celebration of the beauty, strength, perseverance and spirit of the Black community in these troubling times.

Black America Again

2016

Letter to the Free poster
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Inspired by some of the greatest musical recordings and performances 'behind bars', Young imagines a time and place where jails and prisons are no longer filled with bodies but are ruins of a time of isolation, pain and absence. A film about our collective redemption. About second chances, forgiving mistakes, rehabilitation, love and exoneration.

Letter to the Free

2016

Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself poster
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The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.

Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself

2019

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REkOGNIZE is a three-channel video installation and a meditation on photography, memory, and movement. Artist and Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young (Selma, Arrival) finds inspiration in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood, a site of the early 20th-century Great Migration. During this time, millions of African Americans moved from the rural southern United States to cities in the north and west. The Hill District saw a flourishing of culture during these years and was a site of artistic development for luminaries such as August Wilson, Charles “Teenie” Harris, Errol Garner, and many others. REkOGNIZE takes its visual cues from the Pittsburgh landscape, especially the city’s tunnels, which serve not only as literal entry points into the city, but also as metaphors for this movement of people and culture.

REkOGNIZE