Joe Chess

Joe Chess is a camera operator and director of photography who worked as "A" Camera Operator and second unit director of photography on , and . He took over for Marvin V. Rush as director of photography on the episodes and when Rush worked as director. Chess also worked as cinematographer on the Star Trek: Klingon. Chess-Wilson and Captain , seen on various artwork, were named after him. He left Voyager after shooting of its first season was complete, but returned to the franchise almost a decade later, acting as camera operator on the final five episodes of .
Prior to his work on Star Trek, Chess worked as camera operator on (1987-1988), (1989), and (1989).
Further work as camera operator and steadicam operator include the television series The Client (1995-1996), (1996-1997), Moloney (1996-1997), (1998-99), Ryan Caulfield: Year One (1999), (2000), (2002), 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003-04), Summerland Beach (2004), (2004), (2005), and Moonlight (2007). He also worked on a number of films such as (1996), (1998), (1998), (1999), (2000), (2000), (2002), (2003), (2003), (2007), (2008), (2009), (2010), and (2011).
His work as cinematographer can be seen on the television documentaries The Making of "Dances with Wolves" (1990), Getting the Goods on "As Good As It Gets" (1997), and The Making of "A Knight's Tale" (2001) and on David Livingston's short film Slice of Life (2000, with Robert Picardo, Patricia Tallman, editing by Peter Lefevre, makeup by Brad Look, assistant direction by Adele Simmons, on-line editing by , and costume supervision by Damaris Cordelia).
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