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Mastering the Airwaves
Career Achievement in Television Award
honoree Peter Levy, ASC, ACS surveys his
journey into episodic excellence.
By Michael Kogge
I
30 / MAY 2022
t was the late '60s, the height of the counterculture, and like many
youths of the time, 17-year-old Peter Levy refused to follow the
conventional route for middle-class Australian kids like him. The
future ASC and ACS member dropped out of high school. That
same day, he found a job - helping a photographer relocate from
the suburbs to a Sydney warehouse - that would unknowingly
set him on a career path and alter the trajectory of his life. A little
more than five decades later, Levy has been honored with the 2022 ASC
Career Achievement in Television Award - a milestone whose origins
he can trace back to that job.
While whitewashing the walls of that warehouse in Sydney, Levy
watched the photographer's process and thought that he might be able
to do this kind of work, too. So, Levy shot a few rolls of film and processed
them at a local university, where the resident photographer gave
him the highest praise any new shutterbug could receive: He had a good
eye. Levy and a friend soon set up a photography studio in the latter's
garage - a business venture - but it wasn't until his sister Sandra hired
him to shoot stills on a short film she was helping produce, The Machine
Gun, that Levy discovered where his budding interest in photography
could take him. On that set, he got his first real glimpse of what a cinematographer
did.
" Since that day, there was never a doubt in my mind that cinematography
was what I was going to do, " Levy tells AC during a meeting with
him at his home in Los Angeles.

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