April 2026

ASC Welcomes Adam Newport-Berra as New Member

Adam Newport-Berra, ASC has won ASC and Emmy awards for his work on the series The Studio and received a Camerimage Golden Frog nomination for the feature The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Born and raised in rural Oregon, he cites nature as both a catalyst for his interest in photography and a continuing influence on his artistic approach. He sparked to filmmaking through a love of storytelling, eventually zeroing in on cinematography “because it felt like the most powerful way I could help shape emotional and visual landscapes.” After earning a BFA in film production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, he received his first break when a filmmaker friend, Ben Dickinson, saw some no-budget music videos he had shot and...more