RICHARD was born and raised in the Dutch province of Brabant, close to the Belgium border. That location caused him to join about every art school in both countries, giving almost any discipline a try. He hopped from furniture design to architecture and from there along to photography, until at the filmschool of Brussels, he was officially requested to leave since he was spending his time on sets and artshows instead of attending classes. This is how he ended up being a self-made DOP, and, if you ask me in all humbleness, one of the best there is. The rainbow of interests he exposed in his nomadic study career is still a feature of his work, wanting the films he makes to be as diverse as possible. Whether you are talking about big Hollywoodian productions or small-budget films, Richard believes everything is interesting or in any case can be made interesting as long as you see the challenge in giving the project a signature. That’s also what he does with his home garden. Oh sorry gardens, since he has to maintain one of both his houses in Belgium as well as the one in Italy, of which the first one he planned in honour of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. There is one thing though over which he has been steadily single-minded all those years: a cup of japanese gyokuro tea, hand-brewed up to perfection, with a pastel de nata on the side. No need for any variation when it comes to that.

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