Photo: Fred Hayes/Getty Images for SAGindie News broke Thursday that Halyna Hutchins died in an accident while working on the set of a movie in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The 42-year-old cinematographer was the director of photography for Rust, a Western starring Alec Baldwin, which was filming when the actor discharged a prop gun that killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.
Born in Ukraine, Hutchins grew up on a Soviet military base and went on to work as an investigative journalist for documentaries in Europe before relocating to the U.S. to attend the American Film Institute. According to the New York Times, she sought out other Ukrainian expats in California and regularly returned home. Alex Fedosov, a Ukrainian filmmaker, told the BBC that Hutchins was “a photography director with her own vision, her own strong ideas.
Like many women working in the film industry, Hutchins was a rare success story: As of last year, only 5 percent of members of the American Society of Cinematographers were female. Fellow DP Elle Schneider wrote that “women cinematographers have historically been kept from genre film” and that working on a Western was a huge step for Hutchins. In the weeks leading up to her death, she posted photos from the set, which she had been excited to work on.
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