Gerry McCulloch

Background

About Gerry McCulloch

Gerry McCulloch is a Cinematographer and Photographer with broadcast and exhibition credits in Film Drama, Documentary, Television Advertising Commercials and Promotional Music Videos. He operates Darshana Photo Art and was previously a Director of Untold Productions. Gerry is Head of Production of the MA in Filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London. He lectures internationally on the subject of Visual Storytelling. As a Cinematographer, Gerry has made films with household names like Helena Bonham Carter and Paul Whitehouse, and with world figures such as Fidel Castro. He has undertaken Photo and Cine work in Namibia, Cuba, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Japan, Tibet, Nepal, Laos, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand and many parts of Europe; and has photographed Religious Leaders, Royalty, Nobel Prize-winners, UN Ambassadors, MPs, Opera Singers, Novelists, Musicians, Physicists and Entrepreneurs. Overseas travel on Photo and Cine projects in India, Nepal and Tibet, precipitated Gerry’s parallel interest in the overlaps between Eastern traditions of creativity, spirituality and learning. In a long-term project entitled Isolates of Valid Perception, he explores Indo-Tibetan configurations of perception, cognition and subjectivity as a basis for evolving photographic and cinematographic art. While developing the Goldsmiths MA curriculum, Gerry completed two Fellowships and was presented with a Peake Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has worked as a Film Editor at the BBC, is a Link Tutor at the Puttnam School of Film in Singapore and is External Examiner on Film and Photography courses at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Surrey. He serves on the editorial board of the Intellect Journal of Short Film Studies and represents UK Media Academic Partners (MAP) in Burma.