Christopher is a German-born American award-winning cinematographer turned writer.
After graduating from the State Vocational School for Photography and Media as a photographer, Christopher began his journey into the film and television industry by working as a camera assistant and operator for German Television station ZDF on documentaries and television series.
His passion for narrative storytelling led him to Los Angeles, California, where he was accepted into the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory for Advanced Film and Television Studies. Upon graduation, he won the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Gregg Toland Heritage Award for his thesis film "SHADOWS" and four years later, the Filmfare Award (India's equivalent of the Oscar) and the Global Indian Film Award (GIFA) for cinematography on his first feature film, AIM (originally titled LAKSHYA), a three-hour epic Bollywood war drama that became one of India's all-time cult classics.
From being chased by elephants in Kenya, losing his favorite hat to a minefield in Egypt, scrambling a camera up a wooden lookout tower in the hills of Tuscany, face-planting into ice in a Toronto blizzard, tiptoeing around poisonous frogs and snakes in the rainforests of Costa Rica, riding a camera crane at 17,796 feet (5.424 m) in the Himalayas, getting rained out in the Caldera of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, shooting on Hollywood and Bollywood sound stages, to camping in the Mojave Desert to shoot a Holy Grail time-lapse of the Milky Way, his work has taken him to every corner of the world. His credits as a Director of Photography include short films, documentaries, TV movies, and independent feature films.
Christopher changed careers in 2018 to pursue his love of writing. He is currently working on his first novel, The Impossible Event, the first book in a two-part sci-fi thriller series.
After graduating from the State Vocational School for Photography and Media as a photographer, Christopher began his journey into the film and television industry by working as a camera assistant and operator for German Television station ZDF on documentaries and television series.
His passion for narrative storytelling led him to Los Angeles, California, where he was accepted into the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory for Advanced Film and Television Studies. Upon graduation, he won the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Gregg Toland Heritage Award for his thesis film "SHADOWS" and four years later, the Filmfare Award (India's equivalent of the Oscar) and the Global Indian Film Award (GIFA) for cinematography on his first feature film, AIM (originally titled LAKSHYA), a three-hour epic Bollywood war drama that became one of India's all-time cult classics.
From being chased by elephants in Kenya, losing his favorite hat to a minefield in Egypt, scrambling a camera up a wooden lookout tower in the hills of Tuscany, face-planting into ice in a Toronto blizzard, tiptoeing around poisonous frogs and snakes in the rainforests of Costa Rica, riding a camera crane at 17,796 feet (5.424 m) in the Himalayas, getting rained out in the Caldera of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, shooting on Hollywood and Bollywood sound stages, to camping in the Mojave Desert to shoot a Holy Grail time-lapse of the Milky Way, his work has taken him to every corner of the world. His credits as a Director of Photography include short films, documentaries, TV movies, and independent feature films.
Christopher changed careers in 2018 to pursue his love of writing. He is currently working on his first novel, The Impossible Event, the first book in a two-part sci-fi thriller series.
