Holly Fischer is a cinematographer and director based in New York City, working across documentary, narrative, and commercial projects. She is drawn to intimate, emotionally charged images, with light that reveals character and frames that give a moment room to breathe.
She was selected for the ASC Vision Mentorship Program (2025–26), mentored by Mark Irwin, ASC, CSC. Recent work includes the feature documentary Stronger Than You Think (2025), following Paralympic silver medalist Ali Truwit; the first season of Evolve & Flex with Lance Fresh for HBO Max; and projects for Netflix, TNT Sports, and Bloomberg.
As a director, her YoungArts film on artist joseph webb earned a 2026 Silver Telly Award, and she directed two record-performing episodes of TakeOne. She has also directed for Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Gates Foundation, and BBC4.
Before going independent, she was an in-house DP for three years at Refinery29 and four years at VICE, shaping series like Dear Black Love, Street Food Icons, Overlooked, VICE Guide to Travel, and Hair Me Out.
She also shot the feature documentary Black As U R (2022), winner of the $60K Panavision Award for Outstanding Feature and the first-ever recipient of Frameline’s Out in the Silence Award, a category Frameline created after seeing the film.
She holds a Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) certification from VICE Media Group, covering threat assessment, conflict de-escalation, field medical response, and crisis management for high-risk environments.
Available for cinematography and directing projects in New York and on location. For inquiries: holly@hollyshoots.com
Owner-operator: ARRI Amira, Sony FX9, Sony FX6
PRESS & RECOGNITION
November 2024
Lucie Foundation x Los Angeles Center of Photography
Lucie Foundation x Los Angeles Center of Photography
Juror in Lucie Photo Book Prize & Scholarship Program
August 2024
Good Morning America & ABC
Good Morning America & ABC
Photography by Holly Fischer
February 2023
Deadline Hollywood Deadline.com
Deadline Hollywood Deadline.com
'Billy Porter Joins Micheal Rice Doc as Exec Producer'
Cinematography by Holly Fischer
2019
'Photo District News: Studio + Equipment' by Annual Magazine
'Not Your Average Beauty Lighting: An Interview With The Brains Behind Refinery29's 'Beauty With Mi'
'Photo District News: Studio + Equipment' by Annual Magazine
'Not Your Average Beauty Lighting: An Interview With The Brains Behind Refinery29's 'Beauty With Mi'
2019 Annual 'Photo District News: Studio + Equipment' Magazine
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