— Director of Photography · Cinematography · Oporto —
VLAD PRK VLAD PROK
14 CITIES · 31 PICTURES · 8 YEARS
A photograph stills the moment.
Cinema sculpts time.
After Tarkovsky ●
Cinematography across cinema, commercials, music videos and brand films — built between Oporto · Lisbon · London · New York · Dubai · Miami · Doha · Riyadh · Roma · Milano · Kiev · Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka.
— SCROLL — SELECTED WORK ↓
— EST — 2018
●TRUSTED · BY
2018 — present— On the craft —
“Time, captured in its factual forms — such is the supreme idea of cinema as an art.”
“We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors.”
“The language of cinematography is light. You start with perfect black and turn one light on.”
“The light is not mine — it is already there.”
“I like to use light as a grammar, a language.”
“Whatever happens, it is the director of photography who answers for the image.”
“You've got to see. Learn to see. Learn to feel light.”
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
“Photography is nothing. It's life that interests me.”
“We don't really see things. We just look. Real seeing happens once we look closer.”
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”
“Cinema is truth, 23.976 times per second.”
“The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is rhythm — expressing the course of time within the frame.”
“I am kino-eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it.”
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist — painting pictures in the dark.”
“In being able to command the light God has given, we too become creators.”
“There is colour, there is the framing, there is the filmed object — but above all there is time upon them.”
●SELECTED · WORK
31 pictures · 2019 / 2023
01 LONDON 51°30N · 00°07W 1,400 KM
02 LISBON 38°43N · 09°08W 335 KM
03 NEW YORK 40°42N · 74°00W 5,500 KM
04 MIAMI 25°45N · 80°11W 6,360 KM
05 ROMA 41°54N · 12°29E 1,920 KM
06 MILANO 45°27N · 09°10E 1,720 KM
07 DUBAI 25°16N · 55°17E 5,540 KM
08 DOHA 25°17N · 51°31E 5,600 KM
09 RIYADH 24°42N · 46°43E 5,030 KM
10 KIEV 50°27N · 30°31E 3,210 KM
11 TOKYO 35°41N · 139°41E 11,030 KM
12 KYOTO 35°00N · 135°45E 11,160 KM
13 OSAKA 34°41N · 135°30E 11,160 KM
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— About —
A practice in light, motion
and the time between frames.
Vlad Prok is a Director of Photography based in Oporto, working internationally since 2018. The practice is in translating brands, artists and moments into images that outlive a campaign — a picture that holds.
Eight years of cinematography across cinema, commercials, music videos and brand films, built between Oporto, Lisbon, London, New York, Dubai, Miami, Doha, Riyadh, Roma, Milano, Kiev, Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.
The work is done with a keen eye for a perfectly composed shot, deliberate light, elegant music and patient editing. Equipped for any scale — from intimate documentary to full commercial production — with cinema-grade camera, lighting and audio, supported by a trusted crew when the picture demands it. Whatever the rig, the camera is there to dissolve into the moment.
+200 productions +8 years 14 cities +31 films 4 continents