We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Logan Floyd a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Logan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Before we get into specifics, let’s talk about success more generally. What do you think it takes to be successful?

Success comes from within. As a freelance cinematographer and a business owner where I have to wear all the hats, it is so important to speak passionately to yourself. For me that comes in the form of trusting my gut and relying on past experiences to help guide my next moves. The profession of cinematography can sometimes be solitary but it is with that solitude that I reach deep within myself to find the courage and strength to continue to meet new collaborators and search for the next story to tell. Wether that be in the commercial, doc, music, or narrative space it is all up to me to find these new opportunities and continue to grow my film family.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My love of filmmaking began early on at home. Both my parents are artists. My father is an architect and my mother a painter. Growing up I would learn how to appreciate all the remarkable beauty in this world and try to find my own way to expressing what I was seeing. For me, that came in the form of photography. I would talk to my mother about the amazing complexity of color and light. With my father I would talk about the need for structure and site to have a real dialogue with one another.

Right before heading to college my mother directed a documentary and asked me to come on as the DP. This was my first opportunity to really sculpt a story from beginning to end. I found it to be very exciting to be capturing people going about their lives and trying to capture these every day moments in what I believed to be a cinematic lens.

Once I got to college I immediately fell into the cinema department and by my junior had announced that I wanted to pursue a career in cinematography. I ended up shooting films a dozen shorts between my junior and senior year for my classmates and managed to construct a major with my professors around cinematography.

While in college I also made strong friendships with some upperclassman who went on to create Loose Films in Columbus Ohio. After graduating I moved to NYC where I worked as a DP shooting music videos, fashion films, and commercials. After two years of this I was asked to come be the in-house DP for Loose Films. For two more years we worked and lived together and in 2019 we shot our first narrative feature titled “Poser”. The film premiered at Tribeca in 2021 and went on to get distribution from Oscilloscope. The film was given a theatrical release and now lives on AppleTV, Showtime, Paramount+, and Prime.

I then went on to attend AFI as a cinematography fellow. I am a graduate of class of ‘22. After graduating I went on to shoot two more narrative features. Currently I’m in prep for my fourth narrative feature. I also recently have been shooting a feature doc for about a year and a half off and on. Other work I do fall in the commercial / fashion space, music videos, and branded work.

What I care most about is being able to work with passionate artists and to be able to tell their stories. What really matters to me is the ability to bounce in and out of different perspective’s, worlds, and environment’s. My hope is to take any directors vision and bring it to life in a creative way. I want the work I do to bleed to together and create a seamless experience.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My North Star is to continue to strive to meet passionate story tellers and to unable all of us to create together. I hope to always build a safe space for people to feel they can really express themselves and from that feeling of safety be able to reach new heights.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

I believe the most important thing I can do as an artist is to be someone that can enable other people. Filmmaking is a team sport and I truly love working towards a unified goal. I believe this is something I am strong at.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.loganfloyd.com/
• Instagram: @logan.floyd

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Recent works and behind-the-scenes moments.