Joa Czogalla
is a professional lighting cameraman and Steadicam operator from Germany, based since 2005 in Shanghai. He has worked in Germany as a photographer for magazines and for the SWR marketing department. Since 1996 he worked mainly as DOP/camera and Steadicam operator in a wide range of fields, covering news reports, commercials and TVCs (for instance Siemens and Suntech), documentaries (for ARD, ARTE, BBC, CBC, National Geographic, RTL, 3SAT, ZDF) as well as short feature films.
He has worked in locations all over the world, and has participated in such ambitious projects as the documentary about the Peace Nobel Prize awarded UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for ARD (German first public channel) and the documentary 'The Gods Come Home' about 'China's Leap To Faith' for VisionTV Canada broadcasted on CBC and the World Wide Imagefilm for Suntech.
His work about Art, Architecture and Design ( Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, Peter Zumthor, Achille Castiglioni, Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morisson, Konstantin Grcic,Tony Cragg, Charles and Ray Eames and others) has been part of exhibitions of The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn and is part of installations in the permanent collection of the "Pinakothek der Moderne", Munich (Germany).
CV:
Freelance Cameraman since 1996
Steadicam Operator since 1997
Education/Trainings:
Bachelor of Electrotechnics
Assistant for Advertising Photography
Photographer for Magazines and Newspapers
Art photography
Studies of Film at the University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Camera Trainee at the ECG TV Studio for Advertisement/Frankfurt
Photographer for SWR (SuedwestRundFunk) German First Television Channel Marketing Department
Assistant Operator for Advertising, Commercial and Documentary Film
Cameraman Assistant for the SWR, First Assistant for 16mm Documentary Productions
Specialized in:
Scenic Documentary Films
Educational and Scientific Documentaries
Corporate and Commercial Films
Steadicam
Directing of Corporate films
PADI Divemaster, CMAS 3 Star, Nitrox/Semi-closed Rebreather Diving/Underwater Camera,
Languages:
German, English, French and basic Mandarin
Experiences Abroad:
Europe, North America, Tunisia, Kongo (DRC), Ruanda, Kenya,
China, Japan, Korea North & South, Philippines
Productions:
See "Filmography"
Additional Trainings:
- 1997 DVW 7000 Operation, Professional Application (Sony Germany)
- 2000 IFFMA International Film, TV & Music Academy:
- Location Lightning for Film and TV (Director: Rolf Coulange, BVK)
- Film Camera (advanced) 35 mm (Director: Joerg Geissler, BVK)
- 2002 Steadicam operation (Director: Christof Feller, SWR on RIG Master Series Pro System)
- 2005 Editing with AVID Media Composer