Eric Arthur Fernandez is an NYC-based director of photography, cinematographer, and filmmaker. With roots in documentary, he is known for his thoughtful approach to capturing images organically, often in fluid and difficult environments. He excels following subjects in a cinéma-vérité style, and is able to work nimbly with small crews, as well as in larger and more controlled working environments. He collaborates closely with directors, producers, and media organizations to develop a unique visual language for each project, thinking through equipment, camera movement, color, and a general approach to photographing the subject matter.

His career started in 2011 when he photographed a small town in Northern California where the dead outnumber the living 1,000 to 1 - the United States’ only designated necropolis.VICE Magazine ran the story and he subsequently began working on staff for the company. At VICE, he produced and shot dozens of domestic and international documentaries, on subject matter ranging from urban America and policing, to international crisis and conflict, to the U.S. presidential race and the Trump Presidency. He has since gone on to work on a wide variety of projects for Netflix, HBO, PBS, National Geographic, and others.

In 2019, his film Jazz City, about the jazz boom in Los Angeles in the 2010s, aired on KCET’s award-winning program Socal Connected, and won an Emmy award. From 2019 thru 2021, he worked as a camera operator on High on the Hog, the Peabody and NAACP image award-winning Netflix food documentary series by Roger Ross Williams.

In 2021, he worked as the D.P. on Aging, Inc, a feature length special for VICE TV which won a News & Doc Emmy. In 2022, he worked as a cinematographer on HBO Max’s series Swiping America, from the Peabody, GLAAD, and Emmy award-winning creators of We’re Here. That same year, he worked as a camera operator on National Geographic’s Expedition Amazon, in the Colombian Amazon.

In 2024, he worked as the D.P. on Spring of the Vanishing, a feature documentary shot in cartel-controlled territory in the Northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).

In 2024 and 2025, he worked as the D.P. on Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story, a feature film commissioned by HBO Documentary Films and co-produced by Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches productions and Laylow Productions. The film made its world premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.

He also works in the advocacy and non-profit sector, using his media skills to support organizing around climate issues, human rights, immigration, and police accountability.

His full CV and additional work samples are available upon request.