Jeff, how do you feel about coming from the world of photography and photojournalism and now transitioning into filmmaking?
I’ve been a photojournalist for the last 10 years – shooting a variety of assignments, primarily longer-form documentary essays since about 2001 – for everyone from Time, The New York Times Magazine, CNN and The National Geographic Channel, working across the U.S., Asia and Central and Southern Africa, primarily. I love it. I love creating anything within the visual medium, so doing additional work on the film side of things was a natural progression. I’ll always be a still photographer though, and will hopefully shoot film with a cinematic style informed by how I approach the world as a still photographer – but I am loving the additional toys that film gives you to play with in terms of time, sound and motion. My brother and I also host a TV series for The National Geographic Channel called “Lost in China,” so I think that’s also given me a familiarity with the film medium that I may not have otherwise had coming straight in from still photography.