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Director of photography Natalie Kingston’s latest work can be seen in the triple Golden Globe nominated Apple TV+ crime drama, Black Bird, recently also selected for the TV Series competition at the cinematography centered Camerimage Film Festival 2022.
Starring Taron Egerton, Paul Houser, Ray Liotta and Greg Kinnear in the true-to-life tale of James Keene, a prisoner befriending infamous serial killer Larry Hall to extract information in exchange for early parole, the series brought Kingston’s perspective to a disturbingly intimate relationship between the two inmates.
Previously Kingston shot Shapeless, director Samantha Aldana’s surreal drama that follows a struggling singer in New Orleans who must overcome her terrifying eating disorder and addiction. The film premiered at Tribeca 2021. Earlier that year, short film Dorothea’s Blues which Kingston lensed for director Channing Godfrey-Peoples, premiered at SXSW.
Kingston has worked on a number of award-winning features, including director Jim Cummings’ The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Forbes called the film’s cinematography “absolutely praiseworthy”, while Coming Soon saw the collaboration between Cummings and Kingston as “a match made in heaven as they bring a real voyeuristic feel to [...] a beautiful film from start to finish.”
Similarly, Variety called the imagery of Lost Bayou - which Kingston shot for director Brian C. Miller Richard - “relaxed and beautiful, capturing the remote milieu’s sunlight-dappled stillness and allure; the film casts an intermittent spell in those moments when it simply lingers on its unique landscape.” The film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2019. She also lensed Two Trains Runnin’, Sam Pollard’s Grammy nominated documentary. In 2015, Kingston earned three Cinematography Awards from the New Orleans Film Festival for her work on film shorts Atchafalaya, Rite and Si.
Outside of film, Kingston also lenses music videos. In 2021 she shot “Break” for Julia Stone ft. St. Vincent, which premiered at SXSW the same year. Similarly, she collaborated with Billie Eilish on the “You Should See Me In A Crown” live performance and a music video for “Bitches Broken Hearts.”
In 2019, Kingston photographed Alma Har’el’s “Free The Work” campaign, which earned a spotlight at Cannes Lions that same year.
A member of the International Cinematographers Guild and a multifaceted artisan, Kingston is consistently producing praise-worthy imagery for the projects she shoots. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their pup.