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Nic Sadler
Nic Sadler talking at CSUN
Born
Nicholas John Sadler

(1965-05-24) 24 May 1965 (age 61)[1]
London, England
OccupationsCinematographer, Inventor & Photographer
Years active1987–present
Websitenicsadler.com

Nic Sadler is a British/Australian cinematographer, photographer and inventor, living in Los Angeles.

Early life

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Sadler was born in East London in May 1965, to an Anglo-Indian mother and a British-Roma father. His mother Elizabeth "Betty" King emigrated from India in 1956 with her mother Mavis, siblings Aubrey and Angela "Angie" King, shortly after their father died in Madras.[2]: 65  At age seven he moved with his parent to Perth, Western Australia.

While at North Lake Senior High School he developed an interest in photography from Daniel, his photolithographer father, supported by then teacher at NLSH, John Longley (a future crew member of the successful 1980 America's Cup challenger, Freedom).

Sadler graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from WAIT (Western Australian Institute of Technology), later known as Curtin University, in Perth in 1985,[3] studying under filmmakers Bill Constable[4] and Steve Jodrell, and renown cultural theorists John Fiske and John Hartley.

Cinematographer

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Sadler began working in the film industry in 1986 as a production assistant on the film Shame[5], directed his former tutor Steve Jodrell; then on the martial arts films Day of the Panther and Strike of the Panther.[6]

In 1987 he worked as 2nd assistant camera on television film A Waltz Through the Hills,[7]. The following year he worked as second unit 1st assistant camera on Australian miniseries Jackaroo.[8].

After moving to London in 1989, Sadler began working primarily as 1st assistant camera to John Mathieson BSC, then a popular music video cinematographer, woking with artists including U2 [9], Sinéad O'Connor[10] and Prince[11]

By 1992 Sadler had begun working as a cinematographer, shooting music videos for artists including Elbow, The Prodigy [12], Echo & the Bunnymen, Supertramp and Ocean Colour Scene. He worked extensively with Spidercom Films [13] with directors Alex De Rakoff and David Slade while Guy Ritchie was an in-house director.

In 1997 he shot Nick Cave's The Boatman's Call, a concert film in the MTV Live'n'Loud series.[14] for director Nick Wickham; then on concerts for R.E.M.,[15] The Corrs,[16] Norah Jones,[17] Mumford & Sons [18] and others

He shot numerous television commercials over a 20 year period for brands including Coca Cola, De Beers, Axe[19] and Samsung[20], including an award winning for Peugeot featuring the magician David Blaine[21] in 2000.

In 2000 he began shooting short films for commercials directors Peter Lydon [22] and James Wood [23]. In 2002 he shot Me, You and the Dead for Dircetor Rick Griffiths, who worked as a grip for Sadler while shooting commercials in Manchester. The film won the Audience Award at the Commonwealth Film Festival in 2002.

He shot his first television drama, Paren't Night [24] from the series Shockers, for director Marc Charach and producer Barney Reisz [25] in 2000.

By 2004 Sadler had begun working with live TV director Hamish Hamilton, first on a concert film for Norah Jones, then on four Victoria's Secret Fashion Show TV specials. The last of these, the Victoria's Secret Swim Special, featured Maroon 5 performing Animals on Vieques in Puerto Rico.

After moving to Los Angeles in 2004, he shot the low budget independent film Intellectual Property,[26] which went on to win Best Cinematography at the 2006 Australian International Film Festival.

In 2011 he shot Tales of the Code: Wedlocked directed by James Byrkit.[27] a prequel featurette to the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. In 2013 he collaborated again with Byrkit on the ultra-low budget cult film Coherence [28]. Shot over five nights for under $50,000, Coherence is listed as one of the "150 Essential Sci-Fi Movies to Watch Now"[29] by Rotten Tomatoes.

Photographer

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In 2014 Sadler began a creative photographic partnership with Julia Sandberg Hansson under the name SHSadler.[30] [31] Working closely with LA Make-up artist Satya Linak,[32] their award winning work [33] has been widely published in art magazines and journals.

A series of pictures by SHSadler of Daft Punk were published by Triple J Magazine [34] in May 2013, as part of the promotion for Random Access Memories.

The Fresh Meat[35] [36] series of pictures began as an editorial commission about make-up, morphing into a commentary about cultural beauty standards.[37]. It was rejected by the commissioner then published in their sister magazine Schön!. In 2020 the images won Gold and 1st Place prizes at the TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) [38].

In 2025 the Bad Wolfy [39] image from the Fresh Meat series was used on the cover of Phoebe Stuckes [40] novel Dead Animals.[41]. Images from Fresh Meat were used in the French art text book Instants Français.[42]

The Fresh Meat images have been referenced numerous times in popular culture, including music videos for Middle Child by J Cole [43] and Gnarly by Katseye, [44] a poster for the movie Fresh [45], in promotion and in the set design of the tv show Central Roast - Netherlands [46] and in unlicensed merchandizing by the influencer Emma Chamberlain. [47]

Inventor

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Sadler formed the company Chemical Wedding in 2007 with Toby Evetts and Simon Reeves,[48] to produce software tools for filmmakers on the newly established iOS platform. Helios,[49] an early Apple iOS application for filmmakers to pre-visualise the effect of sunlight on locations and people, was released in 2008. This was followed by the release of Artemis Digital Directors Viewfinder in 2009, the first digital directors viewfinder on a mobile phone platform.

In 2016 Chemical Wedding began production of the Artemis Prime,[50][51] a hybrid hardware / digital director's Lens finder system. The system is in wide use, notably by camera operator Jim McConkey [52] with cinematographer David Mullen on the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.[53]

Sadler & his partners at Chemical Wedding were awarded both an Emmy[54] and the British Society of Cinematographers Bert Easey[55] awards for the development of Artemis and Helios.

From 2017 to 2024 Sadler was Consultant to Caldwell, an optics company based in Glendale, California, in their production of the Chameleon Anamorphic motion picture lenses, used on the production on The Mandalorian[56] from Disney Studios.

Podcasts

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From February 2014 until June 2018 Nic was a co-host on over 200 episodes of the political podcast From the Bunker [57] with Richard Beatty, David Schockett and Jody Hamilton. Jody (the youngest daughter of Carol Burnett) is currently Executive Producer of the Stephanie Miller Show.

Sadler has featured on several podcasts as a guest, including Movies We Like [58] and Film Salon [59]

Public Speaking

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Sadler lectures in Cinematography at numerous institutions, including the American Film Institute, CSUN, and UC Santa Barbara. He also speaks regularly at film festivals and trade shows about cinematography, technology and the future of filmmaking. [60]

Filmography

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Short films

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Year Title Director Notes
2001 Dumping Elaine Peter Lydon
2002 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday James Wood
Me, You and the Dead Rick Griffiths
2003 White Bits Alexander Jovy
The Silent Treatment Peter Lydon
2005 Snaps Simon Lewis
Maroon 5: Not Coming Home Zack Stoff
Maroon 5: Thoughts About Jane Zack Stoff
2007 Hell Bent for Leather James Wood
2008 Ride the Wake Jennifer Akana Sturla
Cinco de Mayo Giles Greenwood
2011 Journey to Safety Varda Bar-Ku
Tales of the Code: Wedlocked James Byrkit[27]
2013 Not Alone Trish Sie
2015 First Impressions Jay Riedl

Feature films

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Year Title Director
2001 Buffalo Soldiers – Second unit Cinematographer Gregor Jordan
2004 Trauma – Additional Cinematography Marc Evans
Spivs – Second unit Cinematographer Colin Teague
2006 Intellectual Property / Dark Mind Nicholas Peterson
2013 Coherence James Byrkit
Cavemen Herschel Faber [61]
Forgive Us Antony Haden-West
2020 One More Orbit – Mauritius Unit Terry Virts

Television

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Year Title Director Notes
1994 MTV Rocumentary Series: Reggaementary [62] Nick Wickham Episode shot in Jamaica, NYC & London [63]
1995 Gamesmaster Steve Wright[64] Season 4 - 18 Episodes[65]
1998 Coming Home Giles Foster Two part miniseries
2000 Shockers: Parent's Night Marc Charach[66] Season 2, Episode 2
2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2005 Hamish Hamilton Lexington Avenue Armory, New York City
2011 Brain Games: Pay Attention! Jeremiah Crowell Season 1, Episode 2
2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013 Hamish Hamilton Lexington Avenue Armory, New York City
2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2014 Hamish Hamilton Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
2015 Victoria's Secret Swim Special Hamish Hamilton TV Special, Puerto Rico

Music videos (partial list)

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Year Band Title Director
1992 Revolver Cradle Snatch Tom Merilion
The Prodigy Fire Russel Curtis
1994 Sleeper Delicious James Brett
Shed Seven Speakeasy Alex Szaszy
Chris Rea You Can Go Your Own Way David Parvin
1995 Caroline Henderson Kiss Me, Kiss Me Pascal d'Hoeraene
1996 Dreadzone Little Britain David Slade
Lighthouse Family Goodbye Heartbreak Norman Watson
1997 Travis Happy Nick Wickham
Echo & the Bunnymen Nothing Lasts Forever Norman Watson
Supertramp Listen To Me Please Vincent Soyez[67]
Dreadzone Moving On David Slade
Ocean Color Scene Better Day Tony Briggs
Ollano feat. Helena Noguerra[68] Latitudes Pascal d'Hoeraene
1998 Sting & Aswad Invisible Sun[69] Feasible Films
2000 Beautiful South Closer Than Most Liam & Grant
2001 Elbow (band) Powder Blue Scott Weintrob
2005 Ocean Color Scene Free My Name Giles Greenwood
2009 Thriving Ivory Hey Lady Kevin McVey
2012 Meg Myers Curbstomp Trish Sie

Concert films

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Year Band Title Director
1997 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds MTV Live 'n' Loud - The Boatman's Call Nick Wickham
1998 REM Uptake Nick Wickham
1999 The Corrs MTV Unplugged Nick Wickham
2004 Norah Jones & the Handsome Band Live in 2004[70] Hamish Hamilton
2005 Maroon 5 Friday the 13th - Live at the Santa Barbara Bowl Russel Thomas
2013 Mumford & Sons Live from the Artists Den Natalie Johns
Soundgarden Live from the Artists Den Jojo Pennebaker
2014 Sara Bareilles Live from the Artists Den Kurt E. Soderling
Fitz and the Tantrums Live from the Artists Den Torre Catalano
2018 Jennifer Lopez All I Have Sam Wrench

Photography

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in partnership with Julia Sandberg-Hansson as SHSadler

Year Publication Article
2013 Triple J magazine Daft Punk[71]
2018 Plain Fresh Meat
Schön! Beauty Standards Revisited
2019 It's Nice That SHSadler's Fresh Meat assesses the line between “what is beautiful and what is ugly”
DesignBoom Plastic wrapped and ready to deconstruct beauty standards in the age of selfies
2020 VoyageLA Meet SHSadler
Lens Culture Fresh Meat
2021 Instants Francaise SH/SADLER, Fresh Meat
2022 Schön! i scream
Lens Culture Fresh Meat
2025 Acumen SHSadler: A Sharp Eye on Beauty

Awards

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Australian International Film Festival

Year Award Category Title Result
2006 Silver Spotlight Award Best Cinematography Intellectual Property Won

Emmy Awards

Year Category For Notes
2018 Outstanding Achievement in
Engineering Development[72]		 The Artemis Digital Directors Viewfinder System With Toby Evetts and Simon Reeves
Partners in Chemical Wedding

Tokyo International Photo Award

Year Title Category Result
2020 Fresh Meat TIFA Beauty Photography Gold
Fresh Meat TIFA Advertising Photography 1st Place

British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) Awards

Year For Category
2024 Artemis Pro & Helios Pro BSC Bert Easey Technical Award

References

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  1. ↑ "Nic Sadler". IMDb. 6 January 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.[unreliable source?]
  2. ↑ Etchingham, Kathy (1998). Through Gypsy Eyes. Victor Gollancz. ISBN 0752827251.
  3. ↑ "SHSadler". TIFA. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "VALE Bill Constable". ACS. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "Shame - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Day of Panther - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "A Waltz Through the Hills - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "Jackaroo - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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  14. ↑ "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatsman's Call". IMDVb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "REM: Uptake". IMDVb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "The Corrs MTV Unplugged". IMDVb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  17. ↑ "Norah Jones & the Handsome Band: Live in 2004". IMDVb. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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  19. ↑ "Axe (Singapore) Lingeries". AdAge. 12 October 2003. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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  27. 1 2 Jim Byrkit. "Wedlocked on Jim Byrkit's portfolio". Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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  30. ↑ "SH/Sadler". SHSadler. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  31. ↑ "The photographer duo SHSadler, composed of Julia Sandberg Hansson and Nic Sadler, plays at subverting concepts of beauty and questioning the prevailing aesthetics of consumer society". Acumen. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  32. ↑ "Satya Linak". Schön!. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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  35. ↑ "SHSadler Fish Meat - Lens Culture". Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  36. ↑ "'FRESH MEAT' BY SHSADLER: BEAUTY STANDARDS REVISITED". Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  37. ↑ "SHSadler's Fresh Meat assesses the line between "what is beautiful and what is ugly"". SHSadler's Fresh Meat assesses the line between “what is beautiful and what is ugly”. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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  50. ↑ "The Future of Viewfinders is Here, and Its Name is Artemis Prime". NoFilmSchool. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  51. ↑ "Virtual Lens Summit - Chemical Wedding's Artemis Prime with Nic Sadler". Koerner Camera Systems - YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  52. ↑ "Jim McConkey". IMDb. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  53. ↑ "Cinematographers M. David Mullen, ASC, and Eric Moynier on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Retro NYC". Studio Daily. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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  59. ↑ "Film Salon - Nic Sadler Cinematographer of COHERENCE". Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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