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Chayse Irvin is an Canadian/American cinematographer best known for his collaborations with Director/Artist Kahlil Joseph.
Chayse' first feature film as cinematographer was Medeas (2013) in which he won the prestigious "Best Cinematography Debut” at the Camerimage Film Festival. Soon after Chayse began collaborating with Kahlil Joesph on numerous works of art (MAAD, PROCESS, FLYPAPER) eventually collaborating together on Beyonce’s Lemonade in 2016. In 2017 at the Cannes Lions festival, Chayse won Gold for Sampha “Process”, Silver for John Malkovich x Squarespace, and Bronze Apple Watch Series 2 "Go Time”. In the same year Andrea Poloraro’s “Hannah” took home Best Actress award at Venice Film Festival for Charlotte Rampling and soon after Chayse won the Silver Hugo Best Cinematography Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Most recently Chayse collaborated with the legendary filmmaker Spike Lee as his Director of Photography on the hit film “The Blackkklansman” which took home Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival 2018, numerous Academy Awards nominations, and a Academy Award for screenwriting.
Chayse is a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and currently resides in Brooklyn New York.