The 42-year-old had the same production role on the 2020 action film Archenemy and has worked on a number of other movies, including The Mad Hatter and Blindfire.
In 2015, Ms Hutchins graduated from the American Film Institute and, in 2019, she was named a “rising star” by American Cinematographer.
According to IMDb, she also won the English Riviera Film Festival’s Jury prize for best cinematography for the short film Treacle in 2019.
An alumnus of the American Film Institute Conservatory, Hutchins was recognised as one of American Cinematography magazine’s “rising stars” in 2019.
Hutchins’s friend and fellow cinematographer Elle Schneider called Hutchins a “rising star” in a tweet.
“Halyna was shooting the Western Rust when she died,” Schneider wrote. “Women cinematographers have historically been kept from genre film, and it seems especially cruel that one of the rising stars who was able to break through had her life cut short on the kind of project we’ve been fighting for.”
Many of her colleagues and friends have paid tribute to the “brilliant talent” following her death.
Sick and devastated to hear that my friend and rockstar cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on set today in New Mexico. I don't have words to describe this tragedy. I want answers. I want her family to somehow find peace among this horrific, horrific loss. pic.twitter.com/ElAQNMuQvR
— ???? ?????? ?️?️ (@elleschneider) October 22, 2021
Hutchins posted a photograph from the set of Rust one day before her death. She also shared a video of herself, enjoying her day off, horse-riding on the same day.
Rust director Souza made his feature debut in 2019 with the R-rated police drama Crown Vic.
Baldwin was filming the forthcoming Western at Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location south of Santa Fe when the tragic incident occurred.