Ross Lowell is a professional cinematographer, still photographer, and occasional director and producer. Of the hundreds of documentaries, short films, and TV commercials that he has shot, directed, and produced, many have earned special recognition: an Academy Award®, several additional Academy Award nominations, Golden Eagle Awards, Emmy® Awards, and Art Director's Club Awards, among others. Ross has taught lighting at New York University and given lighting seminars and workshops for both students and professionals in the United States and abroad. In his spare time, he is a woodworker, writer, and inventor. He is the founder of Lowel Light, having designed and patented many of their location lighting systems. Lowell's credits include (as cinematographer) ON THE TRAIL OF THE IGUANA (1964, also director), "William Faulkner's Mississippi" (1965, TV), A YEAR TOWARD TOMORROW (1966), THE ROCK, OPERATION DIRTY DOZEN and WHILE I RUN THIS RACE (all 1967), J.W. KOOP (1972, add'l photography), "The World Turned Upside Down" (1973, TV), OH BROTHER, MY BROTHER (1979, also co-producer & co-director), and THE WOMEN OF SUMMER (1986).
	Nominated for Short Films (Live Action) 1979: OH BROTHER, MY BROTHER - Producer (w. Carol Lowell)  Technical Achievement Award (Citation) 1979: (Lowel-Light Manufacturing Co.) For the development of compact lighting equipment for motion picture photography. 1 nomination