RAMULAS BURGESS

Ramulas Burgess is a New York based cinematographer and fine artist whose work spans commercials, documentary, and narrative film. His credits include work for HBO, Apple, Paramount, NBC, and Hulu, among others, and have taken him across multiple continents. His lens has found some of the most compelling figures in culture and film, including Martin Scorsese, Will Smith, Nas, Erykah Badu, Michael Che, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael K. Williams, and Jon Stewart.

In my world, colors are lines, shapes are dimensions and stories are told in light and shadows. The camera opens the doorway to uninhibited, unhindered imagination. I see cinematography as a study of human experiences communicated by what the mind can see.

— Ramulas Burgess