Biography

Stephen McCarthy is a director of photography whose thirty year career has spanned the width and breadth of non-fiction filmmaking. His work appears regularly in prime time documentary series including PBS's American Experience, American Masters, Frontline, Nova and P.O.V. as well as HBO's "YoungArts Masterclass"

Mr. McCarthy has served as cinematographer for two recent Emmy-nominated PBS series: "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies" and "Your Inner Fish," based the best-selling book by evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin. He has also photographed the Peabody- and Emmy-award-winning series "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross," two seasons of HBO Family's Emmy-nominated "Masterclass" and three seasons of PBS's "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Stephen's photography has also been featured in "Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger" as well as both "War of the Worlds" as well as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" for The American Experience. Forthcoming projects include Barak Goodman's "Ruby Rige to the Oklahoma City Bombing" for The American Experience and a far-reaching documentary about Alzheimer's Disease for PBS Nova.

Stephen is a visiting lecturer on cinematography at Boston University, Rhode Island School of Design, The Maine Media Workshops and MIT's graduate program in science writing. He lives in Boston.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephen McCarthy

Stephen McCarthy is the brother of Designer Elaine J. McCarthy.