TOM BANKS : director of photography

I recently shot a spot with French director Julien Rocher and production company Astrolab.  The commercial was for an American style French restaurant chain called Buffalo Grill, meant to run as a lead-in to programming (like the "Brought to you by"...

I found this post in my drafts from a while back, I guess I never got around to releasing it.  But almost a year later, still an experience for the books -
Earlier this summer I had the amazing privilege to film and photograph the Black Eyed Peas shows in Paris, France. They played three nights to a sold out crowd of STADEFRANCE. This experience was amazing for multiple reasons, but walking out from underneath...

Recently I had the amazing opportunity of working with the worlds most favorite Muppets, Statler and Waldorf.
We shot a "live via satellite" feed that aired during the VH1 Critic's Choice Movie Awards.
It was certainly a pleasure working with these two....

I shot a music video in Inglewood the other week.
Part of the video was to capture the local flavor of the neighborhood with portraits of the residents. Although a seemingly easy task, it was actually quite difficult at first to find anyone who would stop what they were doing to be filmed. Towards the...