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unusual facts about Director of Photography



Alexander Yellen

The number of feature films for which he has served as Director of Photography (DP) now totals 20, including the cult classic Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus.

Alik Sakharov

He served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, as well as a formidable number of programs for network television and premium cable, most notably for HBO with such projects as The Sopranos (38 episodes), Rome (9 episodes), Sex and The City, Game of Thrones.

Andreas Troeger

He recently traveled to Cambodia as director of photography to shoot and edit a documentary about Robert Clark (National Geographic Photographer) using a Nokia cellphone camera to document Phnom Penh and Siam Reep (Angkor Wat).

Barak Epstein

Epstein appeared in Lloyd Kaufman's 2005 DVD set, Make Your Own Damn Movie! while on the set of Prison-A-Go-Go! The numerous crew positions that Epstein has held include: gaffer, camera operator, editor, assistant director, production manager, director of photography, and special effects assistant.

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

Like the second film, it was directed by Bradford May, a television director and cinematographer who also served as the director of photography.

Focus puller

The 1st AC reports to the director of photography, works alongside the camera operator, and oversees the 2nd assistant camera (also known as the "clapper loader") and any other members of the camera department.


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Adam Bassett

Bassett was nominated as Lighting Director, and the three other nominees for the ceremony are Patrick Woodroffe (Lighting Designer), Tim Routledge (Moving Light Programmer) and Al Gurdon (Director of Photography).

Al Gurdon

Gurdon was nominated as Director of Photography, and the three other nominees for the ceremony are Patrick Woodroffe (Lighting Designer), Tim Routledge (Moving Light Programmer) and Adam Bassett (Lighting Director).

Annika Larsson

She has had a long standing collaboration with Tobias Bernstrup and was director of photography on some performances by Vanessa Beecroft

Apostol Trpeski

From 1971 until 1992 he worked at the Macedonian National Television as Cinematographer and Director of Photography.

At the Death House Door

James and Gilbert had previously worked together on the well-received Kartemquin Films documentary Hoop Dreams, on which James was the producer and director and Gilbert served as producer and director of photography.

Bradford Young

Young's feature films as director of photography include White Lies, Black Sheep (2007), Pariah (2011), Restless City (2011), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), and Mother of George (2013).

Conrad W. Hall

Before becoming cinematographer, he worked with his father on several productions including A Civil Action (1998) and American Beauty (1999) as camera operator and director of photography (second unit).

Daniel Berehulak

Hugh Pinney, Getty’s senior director of photography, wrote to the paper's editor, Shireen Mazari, on 21 November 2009, explaining the error.

Derek Vanlint

After Alien, Vanlint was Director of Photography for the 1981 fantasy-adventure film Dragonslayer.

Ernie Vincze

In 2005 he became the director of photography on the new series of Doctor Who, photographing the entire first series.

Errors of the Human Body

While showing a short film at Berlinale in 2006, Sheean met a scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the brother of cinematographer Anna Howard, who became director of photography on the film.

Fernando Grostein Andrade

Fernando Grostein Andrade, or Fernando Andrade (born January 30, 1981 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter and director of photography.

Fools Guild

In 2004 The American Society of Cinematographers' Technology Committee and the six-studio industry consortium Digital Cinema Initiatives created the ASC-DCI Standard Evaluation Material (StEM) "Mini Movie" as the official image quality reference used to create the requirements and standards for Digital Cinema (Filmed on the Universal backlot with Allen Daviau as director of photography).

Francis Kenny

He has been cinematographer, at times Director of Photography, on numerous films including: Heathers (1988), New Jack City (1991), Coneheads(1993), Harriet the Spy (1996) and She's All That (1999).

Jordan Cronenweth

Cronenweth was initially hired as the director of photography for the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension but halfway through production producers replaced him with Fred J. Koenekamp.

Julio Lencina

Lencina went on to work with E. Stagnaro, Ricardo Wullicher, Mario Sábato, Valladares and others as director of photography.

Leonard Retel Helmrich

2009 "Contract Pensions: Djangan Loepah” (documentary from Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich in which Leonard Retel Helmrich was the Director of Photography) produced by Scarabeefilms

Lukyamuzi Bashir

Bashir is the Channel O Ugandan representative and the director of photography for the South Africa-based music TV channel and has worked on Off the Record, Introducing Keko and Lifestyle Uganda for the channel.

Matthew Woolf

He was Director of Photography and co-Producer on two feature films directed by his long-time collaborator Sebastian Doggart: Courting Condi (which won 26 awards on the festival circuit), and American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi.

Peter Chapman

:Not to be confused with ( Peter Chapman, Director of Photography) or Peter Chatman, the American blues pianist better known as Memphis Slim

Richard C. Jack

Ice Pick, Tandem, Panico Productions (studio owned by Julian Doyle - Director of Photography for Brazil, Holy Grail, and other Gilliam-related projects), Blue Sunflower Studios, Uli Meyer Animation, Passion Pictures

Rick Lopez

He was Director of Photography on the popular mock-umentary Filmic Achievement in 2005 and worked with Writer/Director Kevin Kerwin and Producer Kate O'Neil, both from Authentic Films.

Robert Tregenza

Besides shooting his own projects, Tregenza has also worked as a director of photography with other directors, including Alex Cox (on Three Businessmen) and Béla Tarr ( Werckmeister Harmonies.

Roberto A. Quezada

Two weeks into production, realizing the extreme difficulty of this dual role and the potential a close friend of his demonstrated as a cinematographer, Quezada hired Daryn Okada to complete the eight week shooting schedule as director of photography.

Ron Johanson

Scott Hicks chose Ron as Director of Photography for his feature film Freedom.

Slawomir Grünberg

Grünberg's director of photography credits include: HBO’s Legacy, which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001, and HBO's Sister Rose's Passion, which won Best in Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award Nomination for best documentary short in 2005.

Sulle sathya

Shreesha Kuduvalli, who is also the Director Of Photography for big budget Kannada films like Topiwala and Bahadur came on board as the Cameraman.

Tetsuo Nagata

Nagata was also Director of Photography for commercials such companies as Rolex, Clinique and Honda.

The Emerald Diamond

Fitzgerald, Director of Photography Bill Winters and Continuity Consultant Justin Bergen played on the same Little League team in the early 1990s, which was named after the local Knights of Columbus post.

The Tender Hook

The crew includes: director of photography, Geoffery Simpson (Romulus, My Father, Under The Tuscan Sun); editor, Ken Sallows (Getting Square, Crackerjack); production designer, Peter Baxter (Lucky Miles, Beneath Clouds); costume designer, Cappi Irreland (Home Songs Stories) and composition of the score by Chris Abrahams from The Necks (The Boys).

Tim Routledge

Routledge was nominated as Moving Light Programmer, and the three other nominees for the ceremony are (Patrick Woodroffe (Lighting Designer), Adam Bassett (Lighting Director) and Al Gurdon (Director of Photography).

W. M. Hunt

During his time as director of photography at Ricco/Maresca gallery and as former curator at Hasted Hunt, W.M. Hunt debuted and represented artists including Wilson Bentley, Elinor Carucci, Luc Delahaye, Jean-Paul Goude, Lisette Model, Erwin Olaf, Eugene Richards, Martin Schoeller, Alex Webb, Joel-Peter Witkin and others.