About
Kyrus
Newman.
A New York City photographer, videographer, and creative director producing high-impact visual storytelling for arts, culture, brands, institutions, and community-driven organizations.
Harlem, NYC · 2024
The full story
Kyrus came up documenting Harlem — its galleries, its block parties, its quietly historic moments — and learned early that the best work comes from being trusted in the room before the camera comes out.
That instinct now anchors a practice that moves between museum walls and street-level activations: members' previews at the Whitney, opening nights at the Harlem Fine Arts Show, public art commissions with Times Square Alliance, design week with NYCxDESIGN. Every engagement starts with the same question — what is actually happening here? — and ends with images and films that earn a second look.
Beyond client work, Kyrus directs and edits documentary shorts focused on community-led cultural production in New York. The throughline across all of it is a refusal to flatten culture into content. The work is patient. The work is observant. The work is built to last beyond the news cycle that produced it.
What I make
A full-service cultural media studio.
- Event PhotographySingle-photographer to multi-cam coverage.
- Recap VideosSame-week turnarounds for sponsor and social.
- Brand StorytellingCampaigns built around real people.
- Documentary Shorts5–20 min pieces with full pre-production.
- InterviewsStudio or on-location, single or multi-cam.
- Creative DirectionTreatments, shot lists, and on-set leadership.
- Editing & Post-ProductionColor, sound, and delivery in-house.
In good company
Selected clients & credits.
- Whitney Museum of American Art·
- Times Square Alliance·
- NYCxDESIGN·
- Harlem Fine Arts Show·
- Harlem CLX·
- Walker International Communications Group·
- Brotherhood Sister Sol·