About

A filmmaker and award-winning photographer, Jim Moran has been active in the communication business for five decades.

A staff photographer with Yorkshire Post Newspapers since 1987, over the years his work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and books. He has received several awards including Yorkshire Television’s Photographer of the Year in 1989 and Photographer of the Year in the Yorkshire Press Awards, also in 1989, for an atmospheric and poignant image for the aftermath of the Lockerbie disaster. The photograph was printed and re-printed around the world.

More recently, he has begun operating as a video filmmaker. His wide experience in arts photography includes front-of-house pictures for venues such as Harrogate Theatre and York Theatre Royal, rehearsal pictures for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, and candid shots of an array of actors and filmmakers.

His subjects include Hollywood legend Jean Simmons, Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, Ray Winstone, Kerry Fox, the late Bob Peck, Ewan McGregor, Brenda Blethyn, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Tom Courtenay, Jenny Agutter, Timothy West, and filmmakers John Schlesinger, Kay Mellor, Freddie Francis, James Bond producer Michael G. Wilson, Charles Sturridge, Simon (The Full Monty) Beaufoy, Mark (Brassed Off) Herman, and Mika Kaurismaki.

He has also worked extensively on location, covering the shoots of a number of feature films made in the Yorkshire region over the last ten years. They include:

1996 Fairytale – A True Story
1997 Among Giants
1997 Solo Shuttle
1997 Little Voice
1998 L.A. Without a Map
1998 Fanny and Elvis

Additionally, he has enjoyed a close collaboration with the Leeds-based Northern School of Film & Television, covering the shoots of a range of student films including Silver Lining, Motherwood, Sinful, and End of Summer.

As a video filmmaker he has shot interviews with many veteran/cult actors, writers and directors. They include Lord Attenborough, Jean Simmons, Sir Tom Courtenay, Ken Annakin, Jack Cardiff, Hardy Kruger, Roy Ward Baker, Mike Hodges, Jean-Marc Barr and Gunnar Hansen.

He has worked closely with both the Bradford and Leeds Film Festivals and has shot a number of films including Leatherface Speaks – An Informal Interview with Gunnar Hansen, Richard Attenborough: The Actors’ Director, Jean Simmons: Rose of England and Mike Hodges: Uncompromising Poet of the Prescient.

Personal projects include the short subjects Art and the Artist, shot at the artists’ enclave in Dean Clough, Halifax, The Exchange, featuring deaf photographer Emma Amsden.

Credits

Awards

1989
Photographer of the Year
Yorkshire Television Press & Publicity Awards

1989
Photographer of the Year
Yorkshire Press Awards

1990
Highly Commended (Editorial Features)
Ilford Photographic Awards

1980-86
Numerous awards for portrait photography

Films

2001 Leatherface Speaks: An Informal Interview with Gunnar Hansen (Dir, Prod, Camera)

2001 The Exchange (Dir, Co-prod, Scr, Camera)

2002 Art and the Artist (Dir, Prod, Camera)

2003 Richard Attenborough: The Actors’ Director (Dir, Camera)

2004 Jean Simmons: Rose of England (Co-dir, Camera)

2005 Mike Hodges: Uncompromising Poet of the Prescient (Camera)

Links

The Official Tony Earnshaw Website
Author, journalist, broadcaster, film programmer and film festival director.
www.tonyearnshaw.com

Tom Woolley Design
Accessible, bold and stylish design.
www.tomwoolley.com