INSAS Belgium
Cinematographer
05/1988 - 07/1992
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from S.B.C members Page : born in Belgium in 1969. He first started in the end of 80's as a fashion photographer working for magazines like Elle, Marie-Claire or Cosmopolitan. In 1991 he graduated from INSAS as a cinematographer. Living in Ecuador since 1992, he spend most of his career as director of photography in South America, shooting several feature films such as “Gafas amarillas” and “Sin Otoño “ by Ivan Mora . “Between Marx and a Naked women” by camilo Luzuriaga among others.Severals feature length documentaries “Yo Isabel” ,"Encuentros", “Cuba, the Value of utopia” , “De cuando la muerte” by Y. Guayasamin, among others. Besides working as a camera Operator on the Hollywood film “Proof of life” from Oscar winner director Taylor Hackford and many short films, musicals etc … and more than 300 advertising spots as a director of photography. Since 1995 he also produced some documentaries, one of them was included in the IDFA 20 best films list compiled for the festival’s 20th anniversary . Always interested in the research and recreation of old processes, handcrank cameras , work with analogue techniques too , all film formats , and unconventional lighting systems, he builds cameras, pinhole systems ,and collects hundreds of atypical lenses and film cameras . In the analogue era , he developed his own 4K to 35mm frame by frame film transfer machine operating 9 times faster than regular available ones. In 2015 together with his wife and film director Yanara Guayasamin, they created an “workshop residence house ” to teach cinematography , in the mountains of Ecuador . Currently he lives between Belgium and South America .
05/1988 - 07/1992
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10/1992 - 05/2020
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