Markus Koob is a freelance cinematographer based in Berlin, Europe.
Growing up in western germany in a civil service city crouched between four low mountain ranges yet located on the Cologne-Frankfurt/M railway line he found interest in photography through magazines available from the train station's press shop and the exhibitions and photobookstores a train ride away. His teenage years coinciding with the end of history and initially documenting the raw presence of youth culture he began to professionalize his ambitions moving to Berlin and taking up a short career as camera assistant that culminated in a shooting day with Natalie Portman. He graduated in cinematography from dffb / German Film and Television Academy Berlin with the feature "Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog" which received the German Film Critics' Award Best First Feature 2017. His collaborations as cinematographer were shown to critical acclaim at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, New Directors / New Films (NY / Filmlinc, MoMA), FICUNAM and Viennale. They were theatrically distributed in several countries, broadcasted on television and shown on streamers.
Oscillating between engagement and estrangement and trying to make whole what has been smashed his camera work is setting sails in the wind of film history.