Interview: Vanessa Whyte, DoP
Cinematographer Vanessa Whyte started out by shooting her own music videos, has since worked with Ridley Scott and set up DoP group Illuminatrix to champion women. Whyte chats to IBC365 about pushing the gender balance and pursuing opportunities.
As a woman working in a male-dominated industry, Vanessa Whyte has had to prove herself as a safe pair of hands and overcome rejection in the ever-competitive film and TV world.
She shot the 2018 BAFTA and Royal Television Society award-winning drama Murdered for Being Different, directed by Paul Andrew Williams for the BBC. She teamed up again with Williams to shoot the six-part ITV series A Confession, which was written by Jeff Pope. It has since been nominated for Best New Drama at The National Television Awards and Best Drama Series at the Broadcast Awards.
Towards the end of 2019 she got back into shooting TV drama when she relocated to the Yorkshire Dales in October for three months as part of the crew for Channel 5’s reboot of the 1930’s All Creatures Great and Small, which is set to debut this Autumn.
Whyte is currently…
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