Magdalena Górka (born 29 October 1977; age 46) is a Polish cinematographer who worked as Director of Photography on five episodes of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She is the first woman to work as Director of Photography on Star Trek.
She graduated from the Polish National Film School in Łódź with a Master of Arts diploma in cinematography, and has been working as cinematographer in her native Poland and the United States since the early 2000s. She was credited under her birth name, Magdalena Bachman until 2008, since then, she's been using her married name.
She photographed several commercials and music videos, including videos for Elton John, Katy Perry, and the Chainsmokers. In 2016, she received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for her work on the Chainsmokers' music video "Don't Let Me Down". She worked as second unit director of photography on the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids.
She served as the director of photography on the horror sequel Paranormal Activity 3 (2011, with Bonita Friedericy), the Polish thriller Jack Strong (2014), the horror Viral (2016, with John Cothran, Jr.), the thriller An Ordinary Man (2017), the crime drama You Get Me (2017), the comedy drama Irreplaceable (2018), and the Polish war film The Resistance Fighter (2019).
On television, she photographed six episodes of the superhero series Doom Patrol in 2019 (with Mark A. Sheppard and Phil Morris) and six episodes of the Belgian sci-fi thriller series Into the Night in 2021. In 2023, she photographed an episode of the Marvel superhero series Echo (with Adam Horwitz).
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External links[]
- MagdalenaGorka.com – official website
- Magdalena Gorka at the Internet Movie Database
- Magdalena Gorka at Instagram