October 2025

Claudia Raschke Welcomed as New ASC Member

Claudia Raschke, ASC decided to pursue a career behind the camera after moving to New York from her native Germany to study modern dance with Martha Graham. It was a conversation with a fellow restaurant worker — who also happened to be a part-time cinematography instructor at Columbia University — that planted the seed. Impressed by the framing and composition in Raschke’s still photographs, he invited her to a set and offered her an apprenticeship. "It was like a lightbulb went off in my head," Raschke recalls. "[I understood] cinematography would nourish all of my artistic needs. I can choreograph using camera movements with my subjects; I can paint with lights and sculpt with shadow to create a three-dimensional world … I didn’t want to...more