We interviewed Chayse Irvin, ASC, CSC and asked him some community questions. Huge shoutout to Chayse for doing this for us and for delivering his incredible insights!

Chayse Irvin is an Canadian/American cinematographer best known for his work on BlacKkKlansman with director Spike Lee. More recently, he had finished filming Blonde with director Andrew Dominik. He is also well known for collaborating with Directors Kahlil Joseph, Miles Jay, and Gustav Johansson.

Chayse' first feature film as cinematographer was Medeas (2013) in which he won the prestigious "Best Cinematography Debut" at the Camerimage Film Festival. Soon after Chayse began collaborating with Kahlil Joesph on numerous works of art eventually collaborating together on Beyonce's Lemonade in 2016. In 2017 at the Cannes Lions festival, Chayse won Gold for Sampha "Process", Silver for John Malkovich x Squarespace, and Bronze Apple Watch Series 2 "Go Time". In the same year Andrea Poloraro's "Hannah" took home Best Actress award for Charlotte Rampling and soon after Won, Silver Hugo Best Cinematography at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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