Toby Harris is a South African-born, UK-based cinematographer with 19 years of experience working in the film industry. With a focus in particular on commercials, feature films, short films, documentaries and television drama, while also being very comfortable filming fashion, obs doc series and music videos. 

He received his Bachelor's Degree in Motion Picture Film from AFDA Film Academy in 2008, majoring in Cinematography. Toby is experienced on almost all digital cameras, 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film cameras, and is capable of adjusting to any genre, theme or look. 

Toby has three feature films, as well as ten short films as Director of Photography. 'Natie's Garage', a feature film comedy. 'Little Kings', a feature film "dramedy" shot with Oscar-nominated director Darryl Roodt. 'Stick up', a feature film "dramedy". 'Stick Up' won a SAFTA award in 2016 for Best Made-For-TV Feature Film. 

Vitamin Water 'Hydration, only better' spec commercial was a finalist at the Cannes Mofilm Lion contest in 2011. Further Cannes success includes The Tigerbrands 'Alphabet' commercial for TBWA Hunt Lascaris and 7 Films, which won Bronze at Cannes in 2014. The Tigerbrands "Alphabet" commercial also won a Silver at the Loeries in 2014.

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Toby has worked on multiple feature, series and short docmentaries, including many sports docs. He currently has sports/humanity documentaries on both Amazon prime and Netflix South Africa, with a new documentary on golfer Gary Player coming to Prime in March 2026. 

 "Oh Love", a song by Indie pop band, Dance You're on Fire, was a finalist at the MK Music Video Channel Top 12 Awards. His music video shoot for EDM DJ, TiMO ODV, 'Dancing again', reached No. 1 on Trace Africa Music video channel for 10 weeks running with 1.6 million views on Youtube. 

Coke Studio, a music fusion show with artists from around the globe, won a SAFTA in 2016 for Best Music Variety Show.

Toby brings a high level of professionalism, expertise and experience to any set and would be an asset to any project. He is humble and always willing to bring other voices in as a collaboration.