Christoph Bangert was born in a rural part of Western Germany in 1978.

He studied photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund and at the International Center of Photography, New York. He graduated from ICP in 2003. Bangert was a semi- professional rally driver for four years. In 2002 he shipped an old green Land Rover from Germany to Buenos Aires and in six months, drove from Argentina, 22,000 miles to New York City. The pictures he took on this trip were published in his fist book titled Travel Notes. (powerHouse Spring 2007)

Since 2003 he is working as freelance photojournalist for major American and European publications.

In 2005 and 2006 he was working in Iraq on assignment for the New York Times. His work from that period is collected in a book called IRAQ: The Space Between (powerHouse Fall 2007).

Christoph Bangert is based in New York.