Travis LaBella
Biography
Travis LaBella is an American director of photography and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Originally from New York, he studied film at Northwestern University and began his career shooting documentaries.
LaBella received the ASC Student Heritage Documentary Award for Language of the Unheard, a documentary about the Pine Ridge Reservation. The film was featured in American Cinematographer and screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner.
He later expanded his work into narrative films, television, commercials, and documentaries. In 2014, he was involved with Telescope, an early production to use a complete 4K ACES workflow and Dolby HDR technology.
LaBella has worked on projects including The Kardashians, Artbound, Roadkill, Engine Masters, A Little Family Drama, and Head 2 Head Drag Race. He won an LA Emmy in 2021 for his cinematography on Artbound: Light & Space and is a two-time Emmy-winning director of photography.
His career spans documentary filmmaking, television, commercial production, and narrative cinematography, establishing him as a versatile cinematographer known for combining technical expertise with visual storytelling.
