Darius Khondji
Darius Khondji, A.S.C. is an IranianFrench cinematographer. He has worked with such wellknown directors as JeanPierre Jeunet, David Fincher, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alan Parker, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Wong Karwai, Danny Boyle and Michael Haneke.
He was born in Tehran, Iran, to an Iranian father and a French mother. At an early age, his family relocated in France. He became interested in film early on and made Super8 films in his teens. Later in life, he moved to the United States to study at UCLA and then majored in film from New York University and the International Center for Photography. During this period two teachers influenced his decision to become a cinematographer Jonas Mekas and Haig Manoogian . He realized that all I wanted to do was shoot the other students films. I was concerned with the power of the image and much less with story.
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