When she was prepping to shoot Back to Black, her Amy Winehouse biopic, Sam Taylor-Johnson needed to work with a creative team who shared her point of view – from the way that the late singer looked at things, from her struggles, to her family, her loves. Hiring British cinematographer Polly Morgan was ‘a straightforward decision’, Taylor-Johnson admits.
For a start, the great Seamus McGarvey, cinemaphotographer of Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals and Atonement, who is a repeat collaborator of both Englishwomen, ‘couldn’t speak more highly of her’, she adds. ‘And Polly knows London. I wanted a cinematographer who understood the fabric of Camden.’ Morgan was born just three years before Winehouse.
