He has been working with Werner Herzog since 1995 when he was the director of photography on Herzog's documentary “Death For Five Voices”. Thus began an intensive collaboration that was followed by documentary films like “Grizzly Man” (2005), “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007, nominated for Academy Awards in 2009) and fiction films such as “Invincible” (2001), “Rescue Dawn” (2009) and “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” (2009).