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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
James Artaius

"I started by just picking up a camera and not knowing what I was doing… I've sort of blagged it this far and now I guess I've legitimized myself finally"

Cape Fear (2026) promotional image of Javier Bardem and Amy Adams.

One of the best cinematographers of modern film and cinema got his start with a groundbreaking Canon DSLR – and ultimately "blagged" his way into a BAFTA-nominated career shooting series like HBO's The Last of Us and Apple TV's Cape Fear.

After getting addicted to movies like Blade Runner and RoboCop when he was ten, Eben Bolter always wanted to get involved in film. And it was as an amateur photographer, when he discovered his camera could shoot video, that everything started to fall into place.

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