Well, his father is from Aragon in the Pyrenees... (hence the surname)
He was brought up in a hotel... bang in the middle of the North Yorkshire Moors.
(He was born with 5 O'clock shadow - and people actually came to look at him)
But fortunately, he was also born with a smile on his face.
Which was lucky because...
He was sent to school at Ampleforth Abbey.
But happily there were a few decent clubs in Leeds and he had a very fast motorbike.
After which he ran away to the South of France and...
He spent a most enjoyable period on the Cote d'Azur working in the beach bars and clubs
learning the sort of French that they speak in the Marseille Docks.
He is incidentally... very like his Spanish Uncle Felix,
who told them at his Seminary that he couldn't be a Priest because
he found girls too distracting...whereas Rick told them
that he would never be a Lawyer because he found filmmaking too distracting..
- and girls, and clubbing but he didn't actually tell them that so...
He lived in New York and got a lot of that out of his system,
after which...
He sent himself to film school... and found his true vocation!
Richard always made full use of the fact that both North Yorkshire and The Pyrenees shared
a refreshing absence of speed enforcement!
So it's ironic that someone so obsessed with speed in cars, boats, on horses, skis and bikes,
Would be totally fixated by...
...the infinitely painstaking process of capturing exquisite frames of tiny movements on film.
For example he recently won..
A Silver, in The LIA Awards for 'Samsung's' viral campaign 'Millimetres Matter'
But this resulted in a serious amount of
on-line discussion about the 'immorality of firing microscopic custard pies at flies and spiders'
(some people should really get out more)
Anyway...
he has now vowed to be kinder to insects..
(except Tsetse Fly of course, and Hook Worm, and the one that causes Sleeping Sickness, and Mosquitoes...).
He now lives in a house in South London that he designed and built himself...
It looks like a bit like a Club (unsurprisingly) so they put it in
The Sunday Times and Marie Claire Magazines
and people always want it as a location.. which is handy...
But the reason it took ages was because,
a) he's a perfectionist,
b) he wanted to produce something beautiful - for zero budget,
and
c) He not only designed it AND Project Managed it...
but he actually built it, WHILE working, AND living on the building site.
With first one, then two babies.
Surprisingly...
He is still married with two beautiful children....
Who occasionally see him when he's not shooting....
Carlsberg, Ciuc, Connex, D&L, Danone, Defans, Efes, Falcon Beer, Formula 1, Goesser, Grand Prix Bikes, Holsten, Kindernorthilfe, Pro-Holz, Langnese, Miller, Multiwitamina, Renault, RBS, Samsung, Smirnoff, Sony Vaio, Sidroga, Tchibo, Toyota, Volvic, Yamaha, Yves Rocher, World Superbikes and just about every Russian beer brand!
He was brought up in a hotel... bang in the middle of the North Yorkshire Moors.
(He was born with 5 O'clock shadow - and people actually came to look at him)
But fortunately, he was also born with a smile on his face.
Which was lucky because...
He was sent to school at Ampleforth Abbey.
But happily there were a few decent clubs in Leeds and he had a very fast motorbike.
After which he ran away to the South of France and...
He spent a most enjoyable period on the Cote d'Azur working in the beach bars and clubs
learning the sort of French that they speak in the Marseille Docks.
He is incidentally... very like his Spanish Uncle Felix,
who told them at his Seminary that he couldn't be a Priest because
he found girls too distracting...whereas Rick told them
that he would never be a Lawyer because he found filmmaking too distracting..
- and girls, and clubbing but he didn't actually tell them that so...
He lived in New York and got a lot of that out of his system,
after which...
He sent himself to film school... and found his true vocation!
Richard always made full use of the fact that both North Yorkshire and The Pyrenees shared
a refreshing absence of speed enforcement!
So it's ironic that someone so obsessed with speed in cars, boats, on horses, skis and bikes,
Would be totally fixated by...
...the infinitely painstaking process of capturing exquisite frames of tiny movements on film.
For example he recently won..
A Silver, in The LIA Awards for 'Samsung's' viral campaign 'Millimetres Matter'
But this resulted in a serious amount of
on-line discussion about the 'immorality of firing microscopic custard pies at flies and spiders'
(some people should really get out more)
Anyway...
he has now vowed to be kinder to insects..
(except Tsetse Fly of course, and Hook Worm, and the one that causes Sleeping Sickness, and Mosquitoes...).
He now lives in a house in South London that he designed and built himself...
It looks like a bit like a Club (unsurprisingly) so they put it in
The Sunday Times and Marie Claire Magazines
and people always want it as a location.. which is handy...
But the reason it took ages was because,
a) he's a perfectionist,
b) he wanted to produce something beautiful - for zero budget,
and
c) He not only designed it AND Project Managed it...
but he actually built it, WHILE working, AND living on the building site.
With first one, then two babies.
Surprisingly...
He is still married with two beautiful children....
Who occasionally see him when he's not shooting....
Carlsberg, Ciuc, Connex, D&L, Danone, Defans, Efes, Falcon Beer, Formula 1, Goesser, Grand Prix Bikes, Holsten, Kindernorthilfe, Pro-Holz, Langnese, Miller, Multiwitamina, Renault, RBS, Samsung, Smirnoff, Sony Vaio, Sidroga, Tchibo, Toyota, Volvic, Yamaha, Yves Rocher, World Superbikes and just about every Russian beer brand!
