2014 Emmy | Outstanding Camera Work for HBO 24/7 Red Wings – Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic
2014 Emmy | Outstanding Tease for CBS Super Bowl XLVII We Will Rock You Remix
2013 Grand Prize | Best Documentary Short | Who Shot Rock and Roll | Rhode Island Intl Film Festival
2010 Emmy | Outstanding Edited Sports Special | HBO | 24/7 Road to the NHL Winter Classic
2009 Emmy | Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | 24/7 Pacquiao/ Cotto
2009 Emmy | Outstanding Edited Sports Special | HBO | 24/7 Mayweather/ Marquez
2008 Emmy | Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | 24/7 Mayweather/ Hatton
2008 Emmy | Outstanding Open/ Tease | CBS | NFL Superbowl XLI
2007 Emmy | ESPN | E:Ticket: The Real Frozen Tundra
2018 Emmy Outstanding Open/ Tease | CBS | NCAA Final 4 – Mahershala Ali
2017 Emmy Outstanding Short Feature | NFL | David Vebora
2016 Emmy Outstanding Open/ Tease |CBS | Super Bowl 50
2016 Emmy Outstanding Short Feature | NBC | Team USA David Brown & Jerome Avery
2012 Emmy Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | 24/7 Pacquiao/ Marquez IV
2011 Emmy Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | 24/7 Cotto/ Margarito
2011 Emmy Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | Flyers-Rangers: Road to the Winter Classic
2010 Emmy Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | 24/7 Jimmie Johnson: Race to Daytona
2008 Emmy Outstanding Camera Work | FSN | Amazing Sports Stories
2008 Emmy Outstanding Camera Work | HBO | 24/7 Calzaghe/ Jones
Unbreakable (post prod) HBO
Welcome to Wrexham | FX
Good Rivals | Amazon Prime
American Rock Stars | NBC Universal
One Day at Disney | Disney+ | Fritz Mitchell
Countdown to Garcia/ Granados | FOX
First Team: Juventus | Netflix
Home and Away | Tribeca Films | Matt Ogens
Kareem: Minority of One | HBO | Ron Yassen
Legacy on the Line: From Bradley to Pacquiao | HBO | Bentley Weiner
Tim Howard – Uncompromising | FOX | Matt Ogens
Champs | Bert Marcus Productions | Bert Marcus
From Harlem With Love | ESPN | Matt Ogens
No Strangers | Arclight Pictures | Steve Kochones
Provocateur | Arclight Pictures | Steve Kochones
Road to Pacquiao/ Bradley | HBO | George Jakovic/ Harley Glantz
24/7 Pacquiao/ Bradley | HBO | George Jakovic/ Harley Glantz, Gabriel Spitzer
Who Shot Rock & Roll | Annenberg Museum | Steve Cochones
X-Games Ashley Fiolek | ESPN | Nancy Devaney
50 Cent : roots | VH1: Roadside Ent | Ron Yassen
Extreme Exposure | Arclight Pictures | Steve Kochones
24/7 Penguins/ Capitals | HBO | Bentley Weiner
24/7 Mayweather/ Mosley | HBO | Jon Crystal
24/7 Pacquiao/ Margarito | HBO | Jon Crystal
UFC Primetime II | PIV | Jason Hehir
X-Games Rune Glifberg | ESPN | Sharon Kum
Broad Street Bullies | HBO | George Roy
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers | LMP LLC | Neil Leifer
24/7 Jimmie Johnson – Road to Daytona | HBO | Scott Boggins/ Bentley Weiner
24/7 Pacquiao/ Cotto | HBO | Scott Boggins
24/7 Mayweather/ Marquez | HBO | Abtin Motia
Amazing Sports Stories | Redline Films | Myself Director/ DP
Countdown to Marquez-Pacquiao II | HBO | Scott Boggins
Last Shot: Jose Canseco | Trifecta Ent. | Jason Hehir
Framed – Thierry Henri Framed by Paz Vega | Roadside Ent. | Ron Yassen
Countdown to Garcia/ Granados | FOX
The Christine Leahy Show | [currently in Production] | Fox
Amazing Sports Stories | Ben Malcolmson : The Write Stuff | Fox
Amazing Sports Stories | The Ultimate Sacrifice | Fox
Amazing Sports Stories | The Mysterious Montague | Fox
Amazing Sports Stories | Jacki Mitchell | Fox
Beyond Meat | Roadside Films | Ron Yassen
Bauer 2018 campaign | Air Cooled Entertainment | Josh Caplan
Flexion Pharma | Cutter | Jim Fabio
Bauer Skates | Play Productions | Josh Caplan
Infiniti | CP+B | Matt Ogens
Ancestry | @LArge | Matt Ogens
Thursday Night football 2015 | CBS | Peter Radovich
Notre Dame University | NBC | Peter Radovich
Thursday Night football 2014 | CBS | Michael Amoia
Hyundai | Innocean | Matt Ogens
Shaw Flooring | Resource Ammirati | Matt Ogens
UFHealthare | CAPSTRAT | Matt Ogens
Honest Company | Roadside Entertainment | Ron Yassen
ATB Financial | Corkscrew Media | Eric Yealland
Adcouncil PSA “Here” | Publicis Kaplan Thaler | Matt Ogens
Methodist Hospital | Wong Doody | Matt Ogens
MLB “I Play” | Hill Holiday | Hudson Dusters
Legalzoom – Jessica Alba | Wunderman | Ron Yassen
CBS Superbowl Tease | CBS | Peter Radovich/Gareth Hughes
MLB2K 2013 | Zambezi | Jon Runkle
NCAA Championship Tease | CBS | Gareth Hughes
NASCAR Trucks | Jump Company | Matt Ogens
True Blood | HBO | David Roofthooft
Six Flags | Redline Films | Kimberly Wang
Notre Dame | NBC | Peter Rogaris
New Faces of Boxing | HBO | David Roofthooft
Being Terry Kennedy | Roaside Ent. | Ron Yassen
John’s work in Cinematography has earned him 8 Emmy’s and an additional 10 nominations in the last twelve years. His latest Feature Length Documentary, “The Unbreakable,” is in Post and scheduled to air on HBO in November. The documentary series he lensed, “Good Rivals” is streaming now on Amazon Prime.
John’s interest in photography began when he was thirteen during a trip to see his father in New York City. He was given a Pentax Spotmatic, a bicycle and ten dollars a day. Roaming the streets of New York while his dad was at work, John shot thirty rolls of film. Once in High School, Father James Vorwoldt, his art teacher, saw John’s talent and pushed him to pursue photography. John was offered a scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York, but he declined, opting instead to attend Parsons School of Design and the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he studied fine art, photography, and sculpture. While finishing his degree in New York City, he had the privilege of assisting John Coplans, former editor and co-creator of Artforum Magazine.
In the early nineties, while pursuing a career as a fine artist and showing his work in numerous gallery exhibitions, John began working in the film world. During this time, he worked to integrate his fine art aesthetic into his documentary and commercial work and established himself as a cinematographer.
John’s work in documentaries, commercials and feature films has taken him all over the world. He has worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, and the Arctic.
John has had a critical role in shaping HBO Sports’ series, 24/7, which documents days in the lives of athletes in boxing, auto racing and hockey. The show has redefined sports documentary and has been recognized by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences numerous times. 24/7 has won over 20 Emmys with 2 in Cinematography.
John never developed those thirty rolls of film. After years in his mother’s freezer, they were accidentally thrown away. The mystery of what was on those rolls has informed his professional career to this day.
