Biography

Hunter Robert Baker is a New York City, Los Angeles, and New Mexico based Emmy® Award winning feature film, television, and commercial Director of Photography and Producer. His work has also been nominated for 4 Emmy® Awards. Hunter has photographed 7 feature-length films across the world. Hunter has worked on Navajo Nation for over a decade bringing powerful stories from the frontline of desert communities to the front pages of publications and media outlets around the world. From fiction to non-fiction Hunter's work has been rooted in under-reported stories and voices not often heard. Most recently, Baker worked in the Northern Alaskan Arctic Circle with the Inupiaq tribe, on the award-winning fiction anthology series HBO's True Detective: Night Country, Starring Jodi Foster and Kali Reis.

True Detective: Night Country received 19 Emmy® Award nominations including Best Anthology Series and Best Cinematography and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Limited Series.

Hunter Robert Baker is the recipient of the 2018 ICG: International Cinematographers Guild Emerging Cinematographer Award. Hunter is an alumni of NYU, where he studied cinematography and anthropology balancing his time in special programs in Cuba and South Africa. Baker's projects have been the recipient of support from organizations such as the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, the International Documentary Association and recently the Points North Fellowship for co-directing the multi-award winning feature documentary The Blessing. He was invited to speak at the Impact Haus during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival; the topic was "Empathy in Telling Insider Stories." Independent Magazine named him a "Filmmaker to Watch". Hunter has lectured at New York University, Harvard University, and most recently the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
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