Pioneering British cinematographer Diane Tammes – the first woman to graduate in camera from the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS) – has died, on May 30 aged 78.
Tammes began her career as a stills photographer in Scotland, working at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum and Glasgow’s Scottish Opera and Citizens Theatre.
After attending the NFTS in 1971 – the school’s second year in existence – Tammes became the first woman to be accredited by the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians.