Work

Sebastian Klatt was born in Berlin in 1981 and spent his youth embedded within the subculture of a city in the midst of transition. He was a member of various punk bands and collectively organised art movements before he discovered photography at the start of the 2000s. Frequenting Berlin’s most dimly lit and obscure bars, he shot portraits of the characters from this scene and, in doing so, collected a wealth of experience in analogue black and white photography.

In 2005, having trained as a sound and image designer, Sebastian began working as a freelancer on documentary films, TV series, advertising and music videos. In 2010 he went on to study cinematography at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg (former HFF Konrad Wolf), graduating in 2017 with the title of Meisterschüler (highest qualification possible). While still studying, his work was shown and premiered at various international festivals, such as at the world’s principal festival for cinematography, CAMERIMAGE in Poland.

Sebastian’s work spans a broad range of multifaceted visual art, from classical documentary and feature film to hybrid techniques for generating moving images, as well as the use of digital and analogue special effects.

Sebastian Klatt lives in Berlin.

Education

• 2015 – 2017Meisterschüler with Michael Hammon at Filmuniversität Potsdam Babelsberg
• 2010 – 2015Studies of Cinematography at Filmuniversität Potsdam Babelsberg
• 2002 – 2005Apprenticeship in audiovisual mediadesign
• Works as a freelance cinematographer since 2012