Christopher is a German-born American award-winning cinematographer turned writer.
After graduating from the State Vocational School for Photography and Media, he began his career in the film and television industry as a camera assistant and operator for the German television network ZDF, working on documentaries and television series.
His passion for storytelling led him to Los Angeles, where he was accepted into the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory for Advanced Film and Television Studies. Upon graduation, he received the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Gregg Toland Heritage Award for his thesis film Shadows. Four years later, he won both the Filmfare Award (India’s equivalent of the Oscar) and the Global Indian Film Award for cinematography on his first feature film, Aim (originally titled Lakshya), a sweeping Bollywood war epic that went on to become one of India’s 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 capture 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 independent feature films, television movies, documentaries, and short films.
In 2018, Christopher shifted his focus from cinematography to writing. He is currently working on The Impossible Event, a sci-fi thriller trilogy.
After graduating from the State Vocational School for Photography and Media, he began his career in the film and television industry as a camera assistant and operator for the German television network ZDF, working on documentaries and television series.
His passion for storytelling led him to Los Angeles, where he was accepted into the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory for Advanced Film and Television Studies. Upon graduation, he received the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Gregg Toland Heritage Award for his thesis film Shadows. Four years later, he won both the Filmfare Award (India’s equivalent of the Oscar) and the Global Indian Film Award for cinematography on his first feature film, Aim (originally titled Lakshya), a sweeping Bollywood war epic that went on to become one of India’s 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 capture 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 independent feature films, television movies, documentaries, and short films.
In 2018, Christopher shifted his focus from cinematography to writing. He is currently working on The Impossible Event, a sci-fi thriller trilogy.
