A person with long hair relaxing on a wooden beach hut with a striped canopy, set on a sandy beach under a partly cloudy sky.

Kurt Collins is a cinematographer from Kentucky, based in Los Angeles.

After a tennis scholarship came to a close from an injury, he moved to Los Angeles with little more than a camera and a very questionable 1989 Camry with 300,000 miles.

The first decade he worked across the entertainment and fashion industries in front of the lens, collaborating with leading directors, photographers, and creative teams. The next decade he has spent his time behind the lens. Those early years on set shaped his eye for storytelling and sharpened what he values most—taste.

…and he still has his camera from 2003

A woman in a white dress standing with her hands on her hips in a well-lit room with large windows and elegant curtains, while a person in a red shirt and a white cap operates a camera on a tripod, capturing a scene of a girl lying on the floor with her eyes closed, wearing an orange outfit, across from the woman.