LOCATED IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Ray Whitehouse (he/him) is a documentary director of photography who lives in Washington, D.C. He works at the intersection of documentary film and journalism, bringing a strong visual sensibility and commitment to journalistic principals to every project he works on. The core tenets of his practice are transparency, collaboration and critical reflexivity.

He’s worked as a cinematographer on more than 20 documentary features and filmed projects for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Univision, among others. He has more than a decade of experience covering political issues across the U.S.

He served as the Second Unit DP on TO THE END, directed by Rachel Lears, which premiered at Sundance in 2022.

He DP’d his feature-length directorial debut, A RUN FOR MORE, which had its world premiere at Frameline in June 2022 and screened more than 30 festivals across the U.S. The film had its broadcast on PBS in 2023.

BRING THEM HOME, a documentary short he co-directed and DP’d, premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2022.

He was part of The Washington Post team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for reporting about the Capitol insurrection and its aftermath.

He is community coordinator for the D.C. chapter of Video Consortium and a member of the Documentary Cinematographers Alliance. He holds an M.A. in documentary journalism from UNC Chapel Hill and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University.