Eric Oh

Place of birth:

Ipoh, Malaysia:

Biography:

Eric is an award-winning Canadian Director of Photography that is a Full Member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) & an Accredited Member of the Malaysian Society of Cinematographers (MySC). He is also a member of the International Association of Press Photographers (IAPP). He first became interested in film and photography watching nature documentaries as a young child. These interests were further fuelled when he received his first stills camera, a Nikon EM, at age 11 and started his journey into photography. Eric started his career in the film industry in Toronto in 1993 as a camera assistant, while he was studying for his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film at Ryerson University. He embarked on his cinematography career in 2001 by first shooting music videos, then moving on to commercials and films. In 2008 Eric went to Bali for 5 months to shoot a feature length documentary. After the project wrapped, he decided to stay and ended up living in Asia for 8 years, shooting commercials, feature films, short films, and documentaries throughout the region. In 2017 he left Asia and now splits his time between Toronto and Barcelona.