Niels Carstens is a Danish cinematographer with a long career in film
and television. He started as an amateur film photographer, but had a
breakthrough in the mid-1950s with documentaries, including "Mellem
floder og urskove" about Africa. In 1956 he was hired by national
Danish television as a correspondent in Northern Jutland as well as by
production company Laterna Film where he worked on several shorts and
features, including footage for Astrid Henning-Jensen's famed Heimweh nach dem Silberwald (1959).
He then worked for Per Holst Film and Ib Dam Film before taking a
position in Danmarks Radio's television department in 1965, working as
a cinematographer and technical developer during the years of the
transition from black and white to color television.
