Tolga Kutlar was born in 1968 in Berlin.He started his professional career

as clapper-loader in 1989 and  started working as focus puller after four years .He has been working as a cinematographer since 2000.

As a cinematographer he shot more than 1300 commercials and 9 feature films.

He also worked on Skyfall (James Bond 2012) as a camera operator and on The Net 2.0 (2006) as second unit DoP.

He has experience working with all formats, from 35mm and 16mm film to the digital cameras like Arri Alexa, Red ,Black Magic,Sony  and the DSLR’s

Tolga Kutlar is the Vice President of the Cinematographers’ Association of Turkey (CAT) since 2017.

He speaks German and English.