Terry Flaxton

Terry Flaxton began working with sound in 1970, film in 1971 and analog video in 1976 creating installations, television, art, drama and documentaries. He won prizes at the Tokyo, Locarno and Montbeliard festivals amongst others. He was commissioned for Channel 4’s Ghosts in the Machine, his work has been televised on Alive from Off-Center in the USA and Avance Sur Image in France and across Europe. He created and directed a 5 part series on the subject of video art for Channel 4. His moving image work has recently exhibited to audiences of 1.2 million at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York. His work is in various international collections.

As a cinematographer he worked with analogue HD; shot 4 feature films in both film and video and pioneered Higher Dynamic Range Data Cinematography between 2007 and 2017. Terry shot for Apple during the making of Ridley Scott’s 1984 commercial; shot the third ever video to cinema releases in 1987; he has photographed Grace Jones, Madonna, Van Morrisson, Sting, Yuri Bashnnikov, Kiri Te Kanawa and many more musicians.

As an academic in 2007 he won an AHRC Creative Research Fellowship then in 2010 an AHRC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship at University of Bristol. He became a professor of Cinematography at University of the West of England and Director of the Centre for Moving Image Research in 2013 which he ran until 2017 and organised several international Cinematography Festivals. He recently received his accreditation as Doctor of Philosophy.