Marc Koninckx is a Belgian cinematographer, member of the A.F.C.. Koninckx was born in Brussels. After having studied cinema at the R.I.T.C.S., he graduated in 1983. He began his life's work as an assistant, then quickly emerged as a camera & steadicam operator,. He collaborated with Louis Malle on Au revoir les enfants, Lewis Teague on The Jewel of the Nile, Cyril Collard sur Les Nuits Fauves, Bertrand Blier on Merci la vie, Roman Polansky on Frantic, Patrice Ch�reau on Queen Margot, Claude Berri on Lucie Aubrac. In 1993, he became 2nd unit director of photography for such films as Stealing Beauty � directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, A Far Off Place directed by Mikael Salomon and French Kiss directed by Lawrence Kasdan Since 1998 Marc Koninckx moved up to 1st unit DOP. In 2008, with the film Johnny Mad Dog, Prize of Hope at Cannes Film Festival, he participated successfully to make photographic aesthetics an element of the filming process. Koninckx's recent work in Tamil film Maryan, released in 2013, earned him critical accolades for capturing contrasting backdrops such as the deserts in Africa and underwater sea in South India. 

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