germany Jan 2014

AprilMay opens a London office!

AprilMay is an international photo production company based in Berlin and is happy to announce that 2014 sees the opening an office in London. The company offers art buying, location booking, casting, and all kinds of production services in Germany, UK and in the rest of Europe.

Latest Projects include clients like WMF, Breuninger, REWE, WARNER MUSIC, Sony, Ebay, Peek & Cloppenburg, Neiman Marcus, Skiny, Högl Shoes, Nike, Betty Barkley, Carl Gross, Zeiss, Cover Magazine, Beeline, Intersport, Karstadt and Swarovski.

AprilMay also works with photographers such as Kristian Schuller, Dirk Messner, Andreas Ortner, Alistair Taylor Young, Nacho Alegre, Anders Overgaard, Andreas Ortner, Tomo Brejc, Tim Petersen, Sven Jacobsen, Oscar Falk, Magnus Rossander, Torsten Ruppert, Felix Krüger, Lado Alexi, Neil Kirk, Per Kasch, Graham Shearer, Sara Wilson, Sacha Höchstetter, Nadia Del Dò, Anna Rosa Krau, Christian Anwander, Gregor Hohenberg, Sandra Weimar, André Reinke, Mario Gomez, Heiko Richard, Fritz Hauswirth, Darius Ramazani, Daniella Midenge and many more.

A brief notice from The Shoot Train Company.

Recent productions include:

• BiBA, photographer Timothy Barnes;
• Pioneer Jeans, agency artundwork, photographer Alex Schwander;
• Pionier, agency artundwork, photographer Alex Schwander;
• Bär Shoes, photographer Johannes Rodach;
• Pro Idee, photographer Tom Beuers.

Visit the website for more information or get in touch with co-founders Sylvia Ahrens and Stefan Ahrens by calling +49 421 68 50 48 88.

The model with the strongest calf; the Frida Kahlo look-a-like; the sheep with the thickest wool; the opera singer with the best voice; the baby with the scariest scream - casting production requirements are becoming more adventurous and exciting. That's what entur Kaczmarek love and what the agency delivers.

The company brings the vision of the photographer, the director and the camera man to life. Casting, location scouting, production, permits, location management, coffee, tea and the best hot soup in the region - Agentur Kaczmarek will organise it all.

Visit the website to enjoy the agency's newest portfolio. 

In 2013 Nasty Little Girl Films won three awards (two silvers and one bronze) at the London International Awards (LIA) and at the Eurobest festival in Lisboa.

Nasty Little Girl Films is a small but creative production company with a new roster of high class international and national directors working in different genres like storytelling, humour, beauty, cars and lots of more for TV, Internet and cinema.

The company looks forward to working with creative agencies and their clients. 

Visit the website for more information.

[zerone], known for its exceptional artistic skills in high-end creative retouching, has been working on an exciting range of projects over the last few months.

Whether working on the launch campaign for BMW's newest cars i3 and i8 (shot by Simon Puschmann), new visuals for the VW Taktik campaign (shot by Oliverstefan), or creating worlds for Audi Motorsport, [zerone] works at the cutting edge - pushing the envelope on every project.

Founded in Hamburg in 2001 and with its roots in classical post production, Schönheitsfarm production has become a creative one-stop service provider for advertising agencies. With branches in Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, iIllustrators, art directors, directors, DoPs, motion graphic designers, animators, compositing artists and producers - all sharing the same creative spirit - passionately work to create beautiful pictures.

Schönheitsfarm offers a complete post production service, from set supervision, grading, 3D animation, VFX and 2D motion graphics through to delivery.
Developing integrated visual concepts is the company's core competence. As an answer to the crossmedial requirements of constantly changing markets, Schönheitsfarm works interdisciplinary for all media: TV, cinema, Internet and print. Creating digital worlds or shooting live action, its high-profile creative department and a fully equipped film studio leaves nothing to be desired.
 

Whatever the season, no matter the place, KGB Locationservice Berlin can find the perfect place to make any picture possible.

Indoor or outdoor, on the beach or in the mountains, during summer or winter, KGB has found locations for 25 years.

The company works in Germany, across Europe and beyond.

Stockhamster stocks:

A huge selection of high quality images for all fields of advertising.

HDRI-Spheres and perfect backplates and backgrounds for the transportation industry.

A wide range of beautiful landscapes, huge panoramas and stunning cityscapes from all over the world.

A steadily growing variety of impressive images.

Stockhamster also offers a tailored selection of backgrounds and can shoot a specific background on request. The company will compose images for clients' layouts and can add motion blur to its static images and adjust the speed of blurred images.

Stockhamster is looking forward to your inquiries.

Claudia Masur has a very focused look to her work. Starting with a vocational background, she has since received a Master's degree in photography. Concept and creativity, colors and contours are her trademark, while kids, fashion, people, and corporate events are her beat.

Clients include: Amazon, AWD, Axel Springer, Bild, EnBW, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, telc language test, Metro Group, Marriott Hotels and many more.

International freelance fashion photographer Stephan Glathe is based in Stuttgart and travels constantly between Cape Town, Paris and New York. Stephan focuses on editorials, lingerie, swim wear and men's wear.

His work is emotional, yet well crafted and focused on the product. Stephan's editorial work was recently published in FAULT Magazine, Max, Playboy Magazine and various US publications including BISOUS Magazine, Relapse Magazine, FSHN and VOLO Magazine.

Marc Collins is based in Berlin and has over 20 years of experience. He is specialised in people, lingerie, swimwear, fashion and beauty photography.

Marc offers full service international photo and video productions.

His client list includes FHM, Men's Health, Esquire, Playboy, Maxim, UMM Magazine, MAN, Enamora, Sportmagazine, Ché Magazine, Jaques Lemans and Men's Fitness.

Munich-based sports and people photographer Stefan Schütz always shoots in extremes: whether on sheer rock walls, wearing skis or climbing glaciers, no challenge is too difficult for him.

For Sport Scheck, he spent 10 days around his home in the Bavarian Alps, the Dolomites and Lake Garda. On the programme were mountain sports, running and biking. For Jung von Matt, he shot the image campaign for Erni Electronics GmbH. The shoot turned out to be truly diverse and went from a motorcycle tour to the summit ascent, ending with a get-together grill scene.

For Ochsner Sport, the largest Swiss sports store chain, Stefan shot the newest sports collection of famous racing skier Daniel Albrecht in the middle of August on the Saas Fee glacier. In contrast, Stefan photographed the latest gardening equipment from manufacturer Wolf.

From the beginning of April until June 2014, Stefan will be in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. Contact him direct for job enquiries around southern Africa.

Deniz Saylan began his career as a photojournalist in some of the world's most renowned news hotspots. These experiences greatly influenced him, leading to the development of his own unique style. Deniz continues to work all over the world, but now as an international portrait and advertising photographer who commutes between London and Stuttgart.

Aside from a unique way of using lighting, Deniz' photography is characterised by an eye for the essential details. Celebrities such as Kofi Annan, Dieter Zetsche, Michael Schumacher and Bob Geldof hold Deniz in high esteem, and he is also highly valued by commercial clients including Daimler, The Salzburg Festival, Infiniti, Wirtschaftswoche, Porsche and CFO Magazine, stern, manager magazin, New York Times and others.

Deniz recently also began working with motion pictures, producing music videos for Kidd Feather, Room6 and Anne Lovett and working with the Royal Ballet. For his picture of the G-Class steaming through the desert sand he was recently awarded with a Merit from BFF (Association of Professional Photographers).

Known for his dynamic photography and an ability to communicate atmosphere, soul and emotion, Marc Oeder is able to motivate and focus on the essentials. His functional brilliance combined with long experience complete the picture and allow for high quality results.

Maintaining a studio and base in Munich, Marc mostly works on location. His focus is on people, lifestyle and sports photography for clients including Allgäu, Allianz, Audi Magazine, Commerzbank, Das Örtliche, Deutsche Telekom, Footlocker, Gerolsteiner, Intel, Kaufhof, König Pilsener, Lavazza, Mercedes-Benz Bank, Microsoft, Red Bull, Rodenstock, Salomon-Adidas, Sennheiser, Siemens, Tele 5, Weight Watchers and Wrigley.

Advertising agencies with which he has collaborated include: argonauten G2 München, Atletico Berlin, BUTTER Werbeagentur Düsseldorf, F&H Public Relation München, Fischer Appelt München, Havas Worldwide München, Heye München, kl,ondike München, McCann Erickson Düsseldorf, PERGER & BERGER München, Publicis Erlangen, Publicis München, Selby & Co. Hamburg, Serviceplan München and Wächter & Wächter München.

Jacob Lindner is an advertising photographer based in Munich. In recent years he has specialised more on food and product photography. His daylight studio in Munich has two complete kitchen areas and plenty of cooling storage space for even big food productions. His work includes imagery for packaging and POS materials. Jacob has a staff of food stylists and freelancers he regularly works with, offereing a complete digital workflow while still working across all camera formats - from small format to high-class studio camera systems. He works mainly for the food industry but also enjoys people productions and stock photography.

Christiane Burwitz and Stefan Pocha’s portfolio includes people, food and drink, as well as interiors and exteriors. Based on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, the creative company combines a humorous home perspective with a contemporary vision, creating photographs full of wit and beauty.

With the enthusiasm to see the beauty of simple things, they like to realise rare views or use unusual settings. Their photographs create a new image and emphasize the emotional core of a message. Stefan Pocha (1966) and Christiane Burwitz (1980) studied communication design; both are experienced at traveling the world.

Axl Klein is a renowned German photographer specialising in advertising and people. He recently finished a major art project in which 55 celebrities were asked to display the emotion of anger.

Axl's idea was to create challenging images and also point out that anger is not necessarily a negative emotion but more a motivation for change. All participants, including Axl, gave their time for free and a selection of prints plus a book were put up for sale to raise funds for Amnesty International. The project came together under the title 'Zorn', the German word for rage.

bluestudios gets its creativity with its diversity: as generalists with a world of images the studio's topics are as varied as life itself. Just like its clients, for whom bluestudios assumes all production needs across photography, film, CGI and post-production.

The company's' spacious studio in Hanover and its facilities in Hamburg offer many options for exclusive shoots. The team travels all over Europe for productions, while at home bluestudios is inspirated by a strong belief in its images.

Featured in this Showcase is a selection of work from Christoph Siegert's recent projects:

• CREA Awards 2013 (video) - “It’s a bit like speed dating...“ The agencies have to win the jury over with their work and presentations. This year Christoph followed the race with his camera from the first jury sitting to the final prize giving. With entertaining sound bites and impressions, we get a taste of the big battle between the agencies.
• Marktkauf (photo) - The Live Werbeagentur chose Christoph for its new ad campaign for Marktkauf. Christoph took people portraits with a variety of models in order to get the right look and feel of the customers and their trollies in the bright and glowing aisles.
• Aja Resorts (photo) - Fresh from the sea and into the net - in the beautiful seaside town of Warnemünde, Christoph shot the new online campaign for Aja Resorts and wellness hotels. With the unusual motifs, Conrad Gley Thieme promotes spring offers 'Rubber Ducky' Best Winter 'Spa' and 'Spa Total.'

Martin Wagenhan is a German-based corporate photographer who calls himself a classical portraitist. Even when he is shooting landscapes, stills or robotics, he shows instinctively their unique personality and characteristics.

In Martin's clear and straightforward pictures the viewer finds a very personable and friendly tone, defined by his individual perspective. 

Clients have included Audi, Deutsche Bank, BW-Bank, Michelin or SEW-Eurodrive.

Oana Szekely is a multi-award-winning photographer who belongs to the rare category of artist who learned their profession as a skilled trade.

Her fascination began at the age of 16 and during her apprenticeship she worked with large format cameras, film and digital backs. She learned that mastering photography is dependent on the way you set the light.

Oana now focuses on people, advertising and celebrity photography. Regardless of whether she is shooting in studio light or on location, Oana always manages to catch the magic moment that mirrors both the mood and place.

Asked about her profession, Oana answered: “Ever since I started with photography, my passion for this art has increased steadily. I can say for sure that I'll pursue this path until I am too weak to hold a camera. I believe that it must have been an instinct which helped me find my way.”

Harald Hoffmann, based in Berlin and Amsterdam, mainly photographs people. His portraits transfer the unique characteristics of each personality.

Known for his clear and transparent imagery, his clients - artists, publishers, advertising agencies, commercial companies and cultural institutions - highly value the uncomplicated way Harald works and communicates his projects.

As well as commissioned work Harald develops personal visual series, believing photos are a timeless medium for contemporary exchange.

With a love for photography and music, Katja Ruge completed her studies in graphic design and an apprenticeship as a photo lab assistant. She worked as a photo assistant in Manchester in the U.K., and later as an Art Director in Duesseldorf.

Katja has been a freelancer since 2000 working with magazines, companies, artists, and on book projects. She has had themed exhibitions of her works in Berlin, Gronau, Dessau, Hamburg, Brussels (Belgium), Graz (Austria) and Tarifa (Spain).

She published a book called 'Fotoreportage23 - In search of Ian Curtis'. Her latest themed exhibition 'Can Love be Synth?' was held in Berlin, SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas and Reeperbahnfestival in Hamburg.

Katja lives in Hamburg and works everywhere.

Hamburg-based car photographer Thomas Motta is specialised in shooting fast cars in their natural environment. His work has been recognised both in Germany and abroad.

He recently captured the atmosphere of a powerfully fast four-seater Ferrari FF and its owner for the Official Ferrari Magazine N°23 (Condé Nast UK). Thomas also photographed during the Porsche Carrera Cup (agency: Kemper Kommunikation). Pictures can be seen later this year.

Recent clients also include Volvo, Porsche, GQ, ADAC and Ferrari.

Visit his website to gain more insight into his work.

Based in Frankfurt, in the middle of Germany, Kombinatrotweiss represents a network of very special and talented illustrators and painters.

The team is driven by their love to produce creative work, by the curiosity of the unknown and their interest in finding personalities, new talents and trends.

Clients include international agencies and companies: Nike, Lufthansa, Mövenpick, Vogue, VW, Mercedes Benz and many more.

"We look forward to handle a lot of beautiful jobs for our favorite clients."

Based in Berlin and Hamburg, Nici Theuerkauf is a stylist for people and interior productions.

Featured in this Showcase is work for Stones with Simone Rosenberg and Jens Schmidt / Hille Photographers (agency: Schirmers).

Nici also works with photographers including Andreas Hempel for Stihl (agency: Scholz & Friends), Jan Herbolsheimer for Total (agency: KNSK), Markus Gaab for Vitra (agency: The Gaabs), and Armin Zogbaum for KaDeWe (agency: mariolombardo).

Visit Nici's recently updated website to view her new folio or get in touch on 0179 2091856.

Latest news from elbmodels:

• Sonja Tobias shot the latest Reisenthel campaign with model Dany in sunny Valencia.
• Three "grand dames of modelling“ Gertrud, Meta and Elena starred in the latest issue of BLONDE Magazine.

elbmodels wants to thank everybody for a successful 2013 and wishes all the best for this exciting New Year!

Visit the website to check the full portfolio.

Curve Riders have once again been supervising a number of worldwide productions. With Astrid Grosser the company went on a journey for Zalando, Aida and Telekom. Timm Brockfeld was supported for work with Persil, BMW and Lustiges Taschenbuch and photographer Karsten Koch shot an ad campaign for JPS Gold in Mallorca, while Philipp Rathmer completed productions for Lufthansa and eBay.

Once again the ambitious team filmed and produced the making-of for Gerry Weber's label Samoon, and all of this is only a tiny excerpt of Curve Riders' busy year. The company continues as a highly motivated team looking forward to new challenges and some great jobs.

Certified for top-secret work, designed by renowned professionals and located between Cologne and Frankfurt, Studio Dernbach offers unrivalled technical features to suit the highest expectations of challenging photo- and film productions.

Being one of the most modern studios for automotive productions, Studio Dernbach also provides solutions for other productions such as music videos.

Offering unique state-of-the-art features to ensure maximum productivity and consequently substantial savings in time and production costs, Studio Dernbach includes light channels surrounding the entire production area, a floor embedded rotating and lifting platform with infinitely adjustable speeds, shadow-free tensile background screens in different colours and as transparency for back projection, electrically adjustable (height direction, angle) diffusion screens, galleries, scaffold and roof opening for overhead shots.

A 10% discount is available on rental charges for bookings made up to 31 March.

Loft am Hafen proudly presents its brand new studio in Cologne.

Established by two fashion and sports photographers whose aim is to share their space with others to build stronger networks between professionals, Loft am Hafen is a beautiful daylight studio with a modern industrial look. Two huge overhead lights with black-out curtains line each side of the studio satisfying all daylight needs. The studio is located in an industrial area of Cologne on the second and third floors of an artists' community building, with a roller door at the entrance, a freight elevator, a door on each floor and a huge parking lot right next to the building.

Visit the website for more information.

Studio Qube is a new professional rental studio located in Frankfurt Main east, 17 km from the airport and 7 km from the city centre.

The studio offers production services including casting, location scouting and technical assistance, and facilitates contact with hair and make-up artists, fashion and set designers.

Shopping facilities area located 2 km away at the hessencenter, while catering and restaurants are only 1 km away at klassikstadt.

The studio workspace measures 10m x 12m, with a height of between 4m and 5m. Maximum camera distance is 12m, with facilities including a kitchen, extra dressing and make-up rooms, Wi-Fi, and ground floor access with sufficient parking space in front of a large roller door for comfortable loading.

"By means of exceptionally high quality, we establish the communication interface between brands and people. We want to enable businesses to permanently enhance the value of their visual identity through our services. This is why our rental studio provides the means to realise projects in such a way that they will retain their impact over the medium and the long-term."

An inspiring environment that goes far beyond a traditional set-up awaits. XXL Mietstudio offers individually tailored spatial and lighting concepts, combined with a broad range of services, including outsourcing to cover additional needs and is perfect for film.

Make sure to visit their newly launched website.
 

"Go mobile, get space!"

mobilespace is a leading provider of specially equipped film and photo production vehicles, with more than 15 years' experience and a fleet of over 60 vehicles making the company a reliable partner.

Offering a broad range of special vans including make-up, wardrobe, toilet facilities, generators and artist trucks, the company also carries team cars such as the Mercedes nine-seater with wardrobe options as well as VW buses. Combined mix-mobiles include all features in one vehicle.

All trucks are compact and suitable for use in the city and can be driven on an EU driver's licence 'B'. On request, an experienced driver with local knowledge and special skills can accompany a project.

A variety of equipment including generators, tents, ventilation units, make-up mirrors and much more complete the mobilespace offer.

Visit the website for more information.

Delight Rental Services (DRS) provides maximum support for professional photographers and their productions. DRS presents the latest camera and light equipment from only the best brands. The company also supplies every essential piece of equipment, from heaters to tents and walkie talkies to ensure a successful, professional shoot.

Delight branches can be found in Berlin, Stuttgart and Marbella, all with a complete rental portfolio.

Latest arrivals include VW Crafter (incl. 20kW underfloor power unit with navigation, bluetooth, park heating, cruise control), new Mac Pro, BRON Para 133, Profoto B1 500 Air TTL.

The company now offers the complete Leica S system with all new lenses, including the 24mm, 45mm, 30mm - 90mm zoom and many other new gadgets.

Visit the website for the company‘s full range of new tools.

Which fashion, film or photo event and production planner has not faced the question of where to accommodate teams, models, crew and actors? Comfort of a hotel or privacy and flexibility of an apartment?

Suite.030 has identified the need for something that combines the best of these two worlds and therefore offers first-class furnished apartments in the most central areas of Berlin, including a concierge service.

Suite.030 has put an emphasis on sophistication and liberty beyond classic accommodation with handpicked suites in individual styles and designs and the excellent services of a star-classified hotel. The variety of over 70 suites allows for teams to be located close to each other as well as in different parts of Berlin, ranging from lush luxury to cool design interiors.

Let yourself be surprised by Suite.030 in Berlin.