TALENT

Axel Baumann

Director - DP

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Axel Baumann began his career as a cinematographer in 1997 when he shot his first feature film, Creation, directed by Thomas Roth.

Since then he has shot five feature films as well as numerous documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Sundance Channel, PBS, A&E, as well as commercials for Adidas, G.E., Execjets, Sony, IBM and Allstate.

In 2005, Axel received his first Emmy nomination for Liberia: An Uncivil War, directed by Jonathan Stack and broadcasted on Discovery/Times.

In 2008 Axel was awarded an Emmy for Carrier, a 10-part series for PBS on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, produced by Icon Films and directed by Maro Chermayeff.

Recently Axel completed cinematography on Herb and Dorothy, the audience award winner at Silverdocs released by Arthouse Films, as well as a biography on Thomas Jefferson for the History Channel. His most recent project is War against War, a film on UN Peacekeeping directed by Oscar winner Fisher Stevens. Axel also teaches cinematography at the School of Visual Arts's Master's program in Social Documentary Filmmaking.

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