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Jomo Fray

Jomo Fray is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on Nickel Boys (2024), for which he won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. He is also known for his work on Port Authority (2019), Selah and the Spades (2020) and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023). He was featured as one of Filmmaker's 2018 "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and one of the 2022 "Rising Sta…

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Nickel Boys

Nickel Boys · 2024

MovieDramaHistory

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

The History of Sound

The History of Sound · 2025

The History of Sound

MovieDramaRomance

In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

Premature

Premature · 2020

MovieDramaRomance

The summer before she leaves for college, Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious outsider Isaiah; her entire world is turned upside down as she navigates the demanding terrain of young love against a changing Harlem landscape.

The Young Wife

The Young Wife · 2023

On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt · 2023

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Selah and the Spades

Selah and the Spades · 2019

Selah and the Spades

Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.

See You Yesterday

See You Yesterday · 2019

See You Yesterday

MovieScience FictionDrama

As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

Port Authority

Port Authority · 2019

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.

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Nickel Boys

Nickel Boys · 2024

MovieDramaHistory

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Director of Photography

The History of Sound

The History of Sound · 2025

The History of Sound

MovieDramaRomance

In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

Second Unit Director of Photography

Premature

Premature · 2020

MovieDramaRomance

The summer before she leaves for college, Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious outsider Isaiah; her entire world is turned upside down as she navigates the demanding terrain of young love against a changing Harlem landscape.

Thanks

The Young Wife

The Young Wife · 2023

On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.

Director of Photography

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt · 2023

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Director of Photography

Selah and the Spades

Selah and the Spades · 2019

Selah and the Spades

Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.

Director of Photography

See You Yesterday

See You Yesterday · 2019

See You Yesterday

MovieScience FictionDrama

As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

Thanks

Port Authority

Port Authority · 2019

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.

Director of Photography

No Future

No Future · 2021

After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.

Director of Photography

Butterfly Jam

Butterfly Jam · 2026

16 years old Pyteh splits his time between the wrestling mat and his family’s struggling Circassian diner in Newark. A single impulsive decision by his hustling father changes the course of his life, shaping a tale of pride, legacy, and masculinity.

Director of Photography

Runner

Haas is an 18-year-old girl who was raised by her father in the rural Midwest. When her father suddenly dies, she must carry out his wish to be buried in the town where he was born. There, she meets a young man named Will, a lonely, creative soul who is working to support his family back home. The two of them form a friendship that challenges both of their understandings of love and loss.

Director of Photography

Emergency

Emergency · 2017

Faced with an emergency, a group of young Black and Latino friends weigh the pros and cons of calling the police.

Director of Photography

I Was in Your Blood

I Was in Your Blood · 2018

I Was in Your Blood

A young boy falls in love with his babysitter.

Director of Photography

See You Yesterday

See You Yesterday · 2017

See You Yesterday

MovieScience FictionComedy

Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build make-shift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

Gaffer

Blue Christmas

Blue Christmas · 2017

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

Gaffer

Low Tide

Low Tide · 2018

MovieFantasyRomance

A queer supernatural break-up album about a woman who falls in love with an angel.

Cinematography

Third Trinity

Third Trinity · 2018

Puerto Rico: Young and pregnant, Wilma fears becoming absorbed by motherhood like her sister Luisa, losing both herself and her artistic aspirations. On this morning, her mother, a santera, presents her with a startling premonition: Life has other plans for her, her children and her family.

Cinematography

Briefcase

Briefcase · 2016

MovieComedyFantasy

After giving birth to a briefcase, a woman kidnaps her neighbor's baby.

Cinematography

Pregnant

Pregnant · 2017

MovieComedyFantasy

A pregnant man communicates psychically with his unborn fetus

Cinematography

Clodagh

Clodagh · 2024

MovieMusicDrama

A lonely priest's housekeeper discovers a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.

Director of Photography

Your Future One Dollar

Your Future One Dollar · 2013

Your Future One Dollar

MovieComedyFantasy

A sidewalk fortune teller shows a young man an unlikely vision of his future.

Assistant Director

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name · 2021

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name

MovieDocumentary

A teacher gives a brief history lesson on the concept of whitness to students. This is intercut with Rage Against the Machines Killing in The Name of as well as quotes relating to the discussion. It goes onto critique racism and the overall structure of wealth and power in America and the history that generated it.

Cinematography

Untitled Short Film About White People

Untitled Short Film About White People · 2018

Untitled Short Film About White People

In an effort to rid herself of guilt for gentrifying the neighborhood, a WASPy young woman aggressively attempts to befriend the Indian woman who works at the bodega on her block.

Director of Photography

Modern Love

Modern Love · 2017

MovieComedyDrama

When the camera clicks on, the persona does too. That carefully cultivated image that requires multiple takes, the perfect angle, the right filter. And then you meet someone in real life and you don’t have that luxury. It’s on this precarious foundation that director Francesca Mirabella frames the world of modern relationships.

Director of Photography

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad · 2021

The Underground Railroad

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

Second Unit Director of Photography