about                                    

Kate’s credits include Steven Knight’s recent adaptation of Great Expectations, starring Olivia Colman and Fionn Whitehead, the critically-acclaimed HBO series The Baby, on which she worked with Emmy-winning director Nicole Kassell, and The Nevers (HBO) for which Kate received an ASC nomination in 2022 for Best Cinematography on a non-commercial Television series.

Other high-end television credits include HBO’s Game of Thrones 'The Long Night' (additional photography), season one of Amazon Prime series Hanna, BBC One series Press (on which she was series DP) and Marcella (Netflix). 

Kate’s films have screened in competition at international festivals including Sundance, Berlin and SXSW.  She has won numerous Best Cinematography Awards for her short films, including the Underwire Award for Nazi Boots, directed by Debs Paterson. Her documentary credits include Ava DuVernay's Venus Vs., the Emmy-winning TV series Years of Living Dangerously, and Karen Guthrie's critically-acclaimed The Closer We Get. 

Kate was listed in Screen Daily &The British Film Commission’s Next generation of UK Film Award contenders 2020. And named as one of 10 DPs in Definition Magazine’s ‘Ascending Stars of Cinematography’ list in 2018 and in this same year was invited to become a member of the British Society of Cinematographers. 

Earlier in her career Kate worked as a camera assistant on features including Batman Begins and The Brothers Grimm before studying cinematography at the UK’s prestigious National Film and Television School, where she was the recipient of the Freddie Francis Scholarship. Prior to this, she studied the moving image during an inspirational year at the University of California, and has a background in photography, painting and drawing.

Kate is excited to collaborate with visionary filmmakers, creating images that serve the story and resonate with audiences. The narratives that she is drawn to centre on human experience, often demanding visceral, textured images full of feeling, which give an audience the emotional experience of the character’s world.

She is a member of the BSC (British Society of Cinematographers) and full voting member of BAFTA.

‘Boasting beautiful wintery photography by one-to-watch cinematographer Kate Reid’ 
Little White Lies on Scrubber

‘Cinematographer Kate Reid does a terrific job in capturing the bleak beauty of the Isle of Mull’ 
Screen Daily on Blooded

'Cinematographer Kate Reid captures the rugged beauty of the landscape' 
Time Out London on Blooded

 

education / training
 

WFTV Mentor Scheme Participant 2012-13

MA in Cinematography (Freddie Francis Scholarship)
National Film and Television School, 2005-2007

Film and Digital Media, and Photography
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000-2001

BA (Hons) English Lit and Theatre Studies
Leeds University 1998-2002
 

Images (left to right) copyright of Christopher Cypert, Dave Watts, Marius Smuts & Robert Viglasky. With great thanks for the reproduction of their images here.