Buddy Squires


Buddy Squires is a cinematographer known for his work with Ken Burns as a founding member of Florentine Films. His accolades include one Academy Award nomination, one Primetime Emmy Award win of eleven nominations, and the 2007 International Documentary Association’s Outstanding Documentary Cinematography Award.

Style and approach

Describing his work on The Civil War, Squires noted "our job in the field is really to build the visual vocabulary that can then be handed off to the editors to weave into the story that’s being guided by the script.” "I think any visual artist is essentially reorganizing the world in front of them in a way that makes the most sense to the individual artist," Squires reflected in an interview with ProVideo Coalition. "When I’m shooting a scene I’m breaking down the scene into the elements I find the most interesting and figuring out how can I communicate what I see to others. It’s really just a process of translation and it doesn’t really matter if one is a painter or still photographer or cinematographer, one is always really rebuilding the world in a way that makes sense to oneself. That is what I do all the time."

Filmography