LIFE THROUGH A LENS MALCOLM GRIFFITHS
STAR WARS ISN’T YOUR regular stepping stone for a career in car photography. And yet for Malcolm Griffiths – universally known as Malcy – George Lucas’s sci-fi blockbuster was the inadvertent catalyst for spending more than three decades (and counting) behind the lens.
‘I was part of the Star Wars generation,’ explains Malcy, ‘and was so interested in the movie that I bought a book about it. In one of the behind-the-scenes shots there was a guy on the back of a crane with a big Panavision lens and those large film reels, and I thought, “That looks cool, working on a film set.” I set my heart on being a cameraman. So I managed to find an
