Axel Schneppat

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Honorary Lecturer
axel@axelschneppat.de

Axel Schneppat is an award-winning German cinematographer who has worked on both documentaries and feature films. His works are regularly screened at major international festivals. 

Axel started to work with photography at the age of 12. He won the German Camera Award in 2000 for Havanna Mi Amor, a feature-length documentary film directed by Uli Gaulke. 

Axel later worked as cinematographer for The Cleaners, a 2018 documentary directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck, which premiered in Sundance. In 2021, he was nominated for the German Camera Award for Natalija Yefimkina’s debut docu feature Garage People (2020). The film won the Werner Herzog Film Award and received a nomination for the German Documentary Award in the same year. 

Axel is widely regarded as a cinematographer who achieves intimate portrayals of the protagonists without employing intrusive camerawork.