January 2026

ASC Welcomes New Member Jomo Fray

Jomo Fray, ASC vividly recalls the moment he discovered cinematography, which he compares to “learning to breathe for the first time … I could truly communicate with other people. I could express emotions they could see and feel through the camera.” After earning a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and an MFA in cinematography from New York University, he got a break when cinematographer Shawn Peters hired him as a camera trainee on a music video for R&B artist Cody Chesnutt. “I remember moving cases off the truck and bringing lenses to the ACs, covered in mud and soaked to the bone but feeling a joy I had never quite experienced. After wrap, Shawn was kind enough to sit down with me and go through every creative choice he had made...more