I think you may mean operators.
There are examples of stunt performers operating cameras in a situation that is high risk of injury.
DPs or cinematographers don’t tend to do this. Many times stunts involve multiple cameras and a DP or cinematographer oversees all of this.
I recently did a shot that called for a camera as a point of view to follow a stunt performer doing a high fall from a 5 story building on a show called Bad Monkey.
Stunt performer (dressed as a double) goes over the side and the camera goes over with them.
I was able to ask for a stunt performer to operate this camera and to do so safely.
In a similar scenario last week I did a show that required someone’s pov looking back at someone who pushes them off a cliff.
Again stunt performer operated the camera.
Some stunt performers are starting to direct now and as a result they are sometimes operating cameras. There are lots of times a director operating a camera can make sense, even more so when intricate stunt or action sequences are involved.
Going though stunts and then learning a camera craft like operating or directing is the path.
https://variety.com/2017/artisans/produ ... 12814/amp/Sam Hargreaves (extraction) David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde) are both stunt performers who now direct and operate camera.
Fall Guy is a new film shot in Australia directed by David Leitch about a stunt performer (Ryan Gosling)
The trailer looks fun and some friends worked on it and say it’s going to be great.
Also a footnote,
There’s a legendary stunt performer known the world. When stunt performers hear my accent after a couple days they usually ask me if I know Grant Page. If you’ve seen Mad Max then you have seen Grants work.
In the days before things were safe and mostly made safer by doing things with wires and safety harnesses, Grant was doing it for real. He’s just recently passed and the whole stunt world is mourning.
I had the honour of working with him a few times.
https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/m ... -brilliantJB