Bob Richman

Director of Cinematography

Bob Richman began his film career working with vérité pioneers Albert and David Maysles, quickly transitioning from production assistant to camera assistant then operator. Finally he made the leap to director of photography on Maysles’ Umbrellas, which chronicled artist Christo’s installation of three thousand umbrellas north of Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Today, Richman is an Emmy nominated cinematographer and has photographed many of the highest acclaimed documentaries of the past twenty years including: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Paradise Lost Trilogy and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger’s Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger and Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru, Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman, Nathaniel Kahn’s My Architect, RJ Cutler’s The September Issue, Oprah’s Master Class and most recently, Intent to Destroy, Joe Berlinger’s 13th documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2009 Bob Richman received the cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival for his work on The September Issue.