Manuel Alberto Claro was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1970 and moved to Denmark in 1974, where he has lived ever since. He graduated in photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 1994. Before enrolling at the National Film School of Denmark, where he graduated in 2001, he worked as a camera assistant in Milan, New York and Copenhagen. As a cinematographer, he has worked across fiction, documentary and children’s films, collaborating with directors including Heidi Maria Faist, Christoffer Boe, Christian Braad Thomsen and Mikala Krogh. He has a longstanding collaboration with Lars von Trier, serving as cinematographer on Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013) and The House That Jack Built (2018). His work also extends to advertising, with campaigns for brands such as IKEA, Nokia and Volkswagen, as well as music videos for artists including FKA twigs, Paloma Faith and Rhye.
