Project Detail

Looking for Light: Jane Bown

Name: Looking for Light: Jane Bown
Director: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
Released: 2014
Duration: 90 mins

Synopsis

A moving portrait of the photographer Jane Bown: her quiet determination working in an almost exclusively male world; her unique working method; how the sorrow of her early childhood informed her unique photographic style. It includes interviews with Rankin, Edna O’Brien and Don McCullin as well as the many iconic photographs by Jane that span her six decade career including her portraits of Samuel Beckett, Mick Jagger, Queen Elizabeth II and Bjork, to mention a few.

Details

Year: 2014
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Director: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
Producer: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
Executive Producer: Janine Marmot
Editor: Michael Whyte
Director of Photography: Michael Whyte
Sound: Paul Harris at Suite
Online Editor and Colourist: Chris Hall
Titles: Huge Designs
Photographic reproduction and restoration: David McCoy
Additional photography: Ian Cook and Getty Images

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Complete

Production Company

Hot Property Films

47 Saint Charles Square
London
W10 6EN

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Sales Company

Wavelength Pictures

John Flahive

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