Photography: Agatha Nitecka's stunning 35mm photographs for film posters

Date
25 February 2014

Promotional film posters are a dime a dozen in most major cities – plastered over walls and on electronic billboards as far as the eye can see – but few know how to nail them quite like Agatha A. Nitecka. The film photographer has shot posters and promotional materials for films from Wuthering Heights to For Those in Peril, and unusually for her profession, she works entirely on film.

She explains: “I work in quite an unusual way – not very commercially friendly, perhaps. I shoot on 35mm film, walking around film sets with two cameras, and prime lenses only, one loaded with a colour roll and the other one with black and white film. I work very closely with directors and bring a fine art approach to film stills.”

We were especially enamoured by her work for The Selfish Giant. Directed and written by Clio Barnard, the film was met with huge success, and has been described by critics as something of a contemporary fable, focusing as the story does on the plight of two young boys from a working class background. Agatha captured the film’s characters and atmosphere in her own inimitable way, trailing around the set with the cast to shoot them with a kind of integrity that promotional images rarely encapsulate.

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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Agatha Nitecka: The Selfish Giant

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The Selfish Giant: Film Poster

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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