Being a photographer on a professional film set (Unit photographer)

My very first passion I discovered as a child (besides chocolate and annoying our neighborhood) was movies. I have always been a dreamer, and around the age of thirteen I perceived my curiosity not only for watching movies, but also my curiosity for making them. 
I spent a lot of time with my two best friends running around in forests trying to capture epic movie scenes (some of them are probably still hidden somewhere in the depths of YouTube). We had some success with our films but somehow, my passion of creating visual content shifted to photography.
 
Some weeks ago, the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) reached out to me. My reply came without the slightest hesitation when I was asked to document one of their film productions. I got my very first job as a unit still photographer. “A unit still photographer is a person who creates film stills, still photographic images specifically intended for use in the marketing and publicity of feature films in the motion picture industry and network television productions”, Wikipedia explained to me.

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