Photography · Archive edition

Nathan Hope — Photographer

Nathan Hope is an American cinematographer and director whose other medium is the still photograph. This site preserves the public structure and texts of his former photography portfolio at nathanwhope.com, which presented two bodies of work: the series Animal Behaviour and the three-day photo installation Fifth and Spring.

The statement on the original home page introduced Hope as a storyteller before anything else. His career began behind the camera as a cinematographer for film and television, moved on to writing and directing, and kept returning to the still image for what moving pictures rarely allow: intimacy, immediacy, and the discipline of telling a whole story inside a single frame.

The original page pointed visitors to the newest series, Animal Behaviour, and, for his film and television work, to a separate directing website and an IMDb page. A summary of that screen work is kept here under Film & Television.

No photographs from the original portfolio are reproduced on this site. The frames above and in the galleries stand in for images, so the page structure of the former site can be seen without copying its pictures. About this site.