Blake Horn

Blake Horn isn’t your average cinematographer. The guy’s got Brooklyn in his blood, but honestly, you’ll catch him just about anywhere with a camera—dodging tuk-tuks in Bangkok, sweating it out in the Nevada desert, or hustling through a Manhattan dawn for that perfect shot. He didn’t just waltz into the business either. After grinding through Ithaca College’s media program, he jumped into New York’s wild film scene, pulling cables, setting lights, basically doing all the gritty stuff no one tells you about in film school. Cut to now—Blake’s shot for some pretty heavy hitters: the NFL, NHL, NBC, History Channel, 23andMe, Revlon, Refinery29, you name it. And don’t forget the Special Olympics—those gigs mean something real. He’s worked every angle, from commercials that make you want to buy shampoo you’ll never use, to documentaries that actually get under your skin. No two days are ever the same. One week he’s wrangling a drone over Icelandic glaciers, the next he’s sweating bullets in a cramped studio trying to nail the lighting on a perfume bottle. Lately, he’s deep into a new project—short doc vignettes that dig into what makes artists tick. He’s obsessed with process, the mess behind the masterpiece. If there’s a thread running through all his work, it’s this: real stories, told with guts and style. And yeah, he’s still hungry for the next wild shoot.