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name: "Clair Popkin"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:27:23.067828+00:00"
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# Clair Popkin

Cinematographer. Born in Maine.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Also known as:** Клэр Попкин
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2422752/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1609038

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Free Solo*](https://film.one/film/free-solo.md) (82)

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## Biography

Clair Popkin is an American cinematographer. He has worked as director of photography or camera operator on numerous documentaries and feature films, as well as commercials, music videos and television series.

Popkin grew up in Maine. He began with still photography as a child and later worked extensively in documentaries, including as cinematographer on *Jim: The James Foley Story* (2016). He served as one of the directors of photography on the climbing documentary *Free Solo* (2018), for which he shared a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program. Other credits as director of photography include *STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie* (2023), *The Boy from Medellín* (2020) and *Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates* (2019).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, pressherald.com, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Free Solo* (2018), Fi1m 82, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/free-solo.md)

## Also known for

- *Someone Great* (2019), Camera Operator
- *Bleed for This* (2016), Camera Operator
- *Before the Flood* (2016), Camera Operator
- *Vox Lux* (2018), Camera Operator
- *A Very Murray Christmas* (2015), Camera Operator
- *STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie* (2023), Director of Photography
- *The Adderall Diaries* (2016), Camera Operator
- *Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates* (2019), Director of Photography

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