Career
His first break came for director Leonard Kastle on cult crime film The Honeymoon Killers (1969) where he used available light to give the dark comedy a newsreel look. After that, his career was quiet for a while, before picking up in the late 1980s. He was director of photography for 18 episodes of stylish 80s television crime show Miami Vice before becoming DP on big-budget Hollywood films including,, and Anchorman 2 (2013).
He also shot the 2000s Bourne trilogy, where he worked with director Paul Greengrass to produce a spontaneous, naturalistic effect, often using multiple cameras, frequently handheld, citing films such as The Battle of Algiers as an influence.
He was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts foreign