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Ways of Seeing: DP Jomo Fray on Nickel Boys
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in Nickel Boys From RaMell Ross’s first meeting with cinematographer Jomo Fray, the director was clear on why he wanted to lens his adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Nickel Boys from a first-person point of view. How to do it was an entirely different matter: A puzzle that required months of tests, a 33-page typed shot list and an assortment of creative camera rigs to solve. The debut narrative feature from Oscar-nominated documentarian Ross, Nickel Boys details the brutal experiences of two Black teenagers at the segregated Nickel Academy reform school in Tallahassee, Florida, in the early 1960s. Initially, the […]
