Bradford Young
The Western Front
Cast and Crew
Directory of Photography
“I was not born a cinematographer, I was not born to hold a camera, my way of seeing and interacting with light started at my grandparents coffee table. Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglass, Ming Smith and Stanley Greene; these were common names, creating extraordinary images, for a common boy from a not so common place.”
A native of Louisville, Kentucky Bradford young received his Bachelors of Arts and MFA from Howard University. As a freelance documentary cinematographer Bradfordʼs credits include, Eventual Salvation, directed by Dee Rees, which won the 2007 Sundance Documentary Fund, and the 2007 Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award. Other docs inlcude Alicia in Africa, directed by Earle Sebastian and The Western Front directed by Zachary Iscol.
Bradford’s feature credits include Black Sheep, White Lies, directed by James Spooner (Afropunk), which made its premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Mississippi Damned, directed by Tina Mabry, which made its world premiere at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival and was developed at Project FIND’s directors and producers lab. And, Entre Nos directed by Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte, which made its world premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. And most recently Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City and Dee Rees’s Pariah.
Bradford’s narrative shorts credits include, Dee Rees’s, multiple award winning film, Pariah, which showed at over 25 national and international film festivals. Pariah the feature script was developed at the Sundance screenwriters, directors and producers lab. And, Colonial Gods, directed by Dee Rees in Cardiff, Wales.
Most recently, along with Tina Mabry and Paola Mendoza, Bradford was featured as one of the 2009 Filmmaker Magazineʼs 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Outside of his film work, Bradford was also nominated for the 2008 Renew Media Arts Fellowship (Rockefeller Foundation) for his video installation project titled REKOGNIZE!? that combines still photography and documentary footage in a multi-media installation about calculated youth resistance movements in Franceʼs suburbs.
