About

Bradley Lanphear is a professional cinematographer located in Tyler, Texas with extensive experience in documentary and commercial filmmaking and photography.

For more information, see my Resume or find me on IMDb

Bradley Lanphear

Director of Photography

Bradley began his career in 2010. Since then, Bradley has directed and produced short films for a notable list of clients.

When not behind a camera, Bradley is an avid outdoorsman and a passionate woodworker. He also, thinks that writing about himself in the 3rd person is weird.

Born into a military family, I didn’t know I was a creative until I was in my mid 20’s. I grew up with all my plans and activities geared towards joining the military myself, but after high school and a few very difficult years of self-discovery, I realized that I wanted something else.

Throughout all those years I always had a camera with me, but it wasn’t until I was about 26 when I decided to pursue it professionally. Suddenly I came alive and everything “clicked”.

I started my first business shooting weddings together with my wife. I didn’t know anything about running a business, but making images that people fell in love with came naturally. Photojournalism and visual story-telling became my 2nd language. After a good run of shooting weddings, I wanted to tell more diverse stories, so we closed shop on the weddings and I started working for magazines.

In 2017, I tried my hand at video. My very first attempt at making a professional video was for a real client and I was scared to death. Miraculously, it actually went well and we created something pretty awesome and I was instantly hooked on this thing called cinematography.

I didn’t stop doing still photography, but I was captivated by the ability to tell a fuller and more immersive story through film making. A whole new world of possibilities with a camera opened up and I took off running. I see it all as a developing story for myself and the career I’m building. A vision that is continually evolving.

In 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic lockdown, I won my first award for… anything…

A project that I worked on for over a year won Best Narrative Short Film at the BendFilm Festival. But the craziest part, is that it was technically a music video without a single word of spoken dialogue.

A wordless music video won best narrative.

I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that. It was a life changing moment for me which cemented this thing called storytelling more than anything I had done previously. I had found my tribe.