about me
My name is Maya Dillick and I am currently a fourth year at UC Santa Cruz. I'm double majoring in Film & Digital Media and the History of Art & Visual Culture with a goal of becoming a cinematographer or magazine photographer. I would also love to work in a museum or curate a gallery in the future. My work has been published in Chinquapin Magazine as well as shown the UC Santa Cruz Film Festival. I spend most of my time outside of school working on film sets usually in the role of director of photography or head gaffer, though I have experience as a director, producer, and camera operator.
Currently, I have been very interested in studying the American roadtrip through folk art installations and roadside attractions, specifically in and around Las Vegas, Nevada. Through my work, I explore how people and art are a reflection of place, both at home and away, revealing the personality of a place through what it produces. Everything I am comes back to San Francisco, the best hometown in the world, and while I will never know a place as intimately, I would like to try.
All of my photos are taken on the worst little point in shoot in the world (which is one of my most prized possessions), my dad's old film camera from the '80s with a faulty shutter, or various other cameras borrowed from friends. Most of the film projects I have worked on are shot on a Black Magic Pocket Cinema, though I also have experience with a Canon C200 and Sony Camcorder. My videography is shot on my 7 year old green iPhone 11 Pro that has 24,242 photos and 4,033 videos at the time of me writing this — and counting. Everything is edited on Premiere Pro.
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