Ben Bernhard is a German cinematographer [1] born and raised in Konstanz, university city of South Germany. [2] He received his BFA and MFA in Cinematography from the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB). [3] Since then, he has directed various feature films and documentaries. In 2014 he received a fellowship from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. [3]
Since 2009, Ben has worked with Viktor Kossakovsky and collaborated with Annika Pinske , and the Peabody Award-winning film All That Breathes [4] directed by Shaunak Sen. He was awarded by the American Society of Cinematographers, Doc NYC, and Cinema Eye Honors for Best Cinematography (with Riju Das and Saumyananda Sahi).