Eric Arthur Fernandez is an NYC-based cinematographer. With roots in documentary, he is known for his thoughtful approach to capturing images organically, often in fluid and difficult environments. He excels following subjects in a cinéma-vérité style, and is able to work nimbly with small crews, as well as in larger and more controlled working environments. He collaborates closely with directors to develop a visual language for their film, thinking through camera movement, color, and a general approach to photographing dynamic and often unpredictable documentary scenes. He has recently began shooting narrative projects as well.

His career started in 2012 when he photographed a small town in Northern California where the dead outnumber the living 1,000 to 1 - the United States’ only designated necropolis. VICE Magazine ran the story and he subsequently began working on staff for the company. At VICE, he produced and shot dozens of domestic and international documentaries, on subject matter ranging from urban America and policing, to international crisis and conflict, to the U.S. presidential race and the Trump Presidency. He has since gone on to work on a wide variety of projects for Netflix, HBO, PBS, National Geographic, and others, and has contributed to films that have premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, and Big Sky International Documentary Festival.

In 2019, his film Jazz City, about the jazz boom in Los Angeles in the 2010s, aired on KCET’s award-winning program Socal Connected, and won an Emmy award. That same year, he worked as a camera operator on “High on the Hog,” the Peabody and NAACP image award-winning Netflix series by Roger Ross Williams.

In 2021, he worked as the DP on “Aging, Inc” a feature length special for VICE TV which won a News & Doc Emmy. In 2022, he worked as a cinematographer on HBO Max’s queer-inclusive romantic docuseries Swiping America, from the Peabody, GLAAD, and Emmy award-winning creators of We’re Here.

He has spent 2024 shooting two separate feature documentary projects. One will have a US Festival premiere in early 2025, and the other is a co-production between Laylow Productions and Pretty Matches for HBO Documentary Films.

He is currently available for hire on documentary shorts, features, and series. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat and enjoys surfing, swimming, and walking in Prospect Park.

His full CV and additional work samples are available upon request.