interiors & exteriors photography Jul 2016

Alexander Baks is a self-taught photographer based in Amsterdam. Specialised in capturing the right ambiance with an eye for detail, Alexander always delivers the highest quality images, on time and exceeding clients' expectations. He is very easy to work with and highly flexible in his approach.

Increasingly focussing on the leisure and hospitality industry, big brands have taken notice of Alexander's stunning work. During the first half of 2016, Hilton commissioned him to create the marketing and key visuals for the company's new European properties: Hilton Schiphol (The Netherlands), Hilton Tallinn Park (Estonia) and Hilton Double Tree Wroclaw (Poland).

Alexander strives every day to create better and more appealing images for his clients. He has a huge passion and talent for capturing beautiful imagery; whether it's creating an editorial or shooting advertising campaigns, he brings a signature style to all of his work.

"At Bed Images, our steadfast aim is to bring back a sense of wonder and style to travel. Whether it be hospitality or lifestyle travel images, we think the perfect photo makes you want to drop everything and "be there".

This philosophy and vision is shared amongst our photographic, motion graphic, film and 3-D creative partners. Everything we create is painstakingly done because a little pain is needed to create visuals of pleasure. We are driven to create bodies of work that stir one's soul. We strive to capture everything in camera but when required, we retouch details with a deft, human touch.

Above all, we have fun because it magically shows up in the work we produce.

Please join us to see the world unfold through our eyes."

German photographer Bodo Mertoglu has focused on interior, architecture and people photography for over 25 years, since beginning his professional career as an apprentice with renowned interior studio Vogelsänger.

He is a master of light and his work guarantees natural light, regardless of how and where he shoots - both in the studio and on location. His photos always demonstrate a high level of understanding of the technical equipment to achieve the best results for his clients.

In this Spotlight Bodo features recent projects that have led him from Munich to London, Milan to Guangzhou shooting several showrooms, booths at international fairs, and at selected architectural sites. His clients include Aesop, BMW, bulthaup and Gaggenau, among others.

Photographic studio Boys Play Nice was founded in 2008 by Jakub Skokan and Martin Tuma. Since its inception, the studio has been focused on advertising, architectural, interiors, product and design photography.

Boys Play Nice also specialises in producing creative concepts for photographic campaigns. The philosophy of the study is to create a picture true to the original idea and to make optimal use of the possibilities provided by the photographic medium.

The company won a Silver Award at the GooSee Awards 2014 in Berlin in the landscape category for a cycle created by Martin Tuma, 'Untitled Landscapes'. The studio's photography has been published by foreign portals and magazines including Mark, DesignBoom.com and Insidecor.com.

Boys Play Nice is represented by Pink.

Brett Bulthuis is an internationally published photographer and world traveller. His assignments have sent all over the US, Japan and China.

He began developing his skills in his early teens and followed that passion to Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. Brett worked as an assistant for several award-winning photographers before heading out on his own. Specialising in interior and architectural photography, he was quickly swept around the globe on assignment.

His clients include BMW, Crate&Barrel, CB2, Soho House, BoConcept, Mileu, Nylon Guys, Crains Chicago, Chicago Magazine and VIE Magazine, among others.

Brett lives and travels out of Chicago.

Chris Bradley is a Chicago-based commercial photographer who specialises in architectural and interiors photography. He enjoys modernist design, trippy down-tempo electronic music, an excellent sandwich and his daughter Emma.

Chris also gets a kick out of making his clients smile broadly, which he does by bringing a combination of energy, wit and excellent imagery to his shoots. Most recently he made the art director in charge of a shoot for Cramer Krasselt laugh uproariously while shooting at a grocery store, by making a clever - if not slightly low-brow - pun about melons (honeydews, and they were in the shot).

Chris is not above picking the low hanging fruit to make a client smile. Other past clients have included Japanese furniture design firm Okamura, clothing supplier Trunk Club, and Vanity Fair Magazine. When not on a shoot, Chris spends his time picking up small, pink articles of clothing from the floor of his modernly styled apartment while reminding his daughter that she "really ought to be doing this herself!"

Christoph Kern is passionate about exciting travel stories, shooting delicious food and beautiful architecture and interiors. Included in this Spotlight is a selection of images from his recent work for Manor and Swiss Universe, the Swiss inflight magazine for first and business class.

His clients include IWC Magazine, UBS, a+u, Swiss Magazine, Manor, interio, Migros and Davidoff.

Visit his website for more information and to take a closer look at his portfolio.

Dirk Krüll and his team recently photographed the new website for long-standing client NH Hotels. 30 hotels were fully visualised, including the hip Nhow Design Hotel and the new Collection-Hotels, located in Germany's major cities.

Lighting design firm Licht im Raum published its new catalogue - full of Dirk's images - at the Light+Building furniture fair in Frankfurt. He also worked for Dusseldorf City Council on several long-term downtown construction projects.

Dirk studied at the Folkwang School (GHS Essen) and has received several prizes and grants for his reportage and magazine stories. He is represented by the Laif Agency and is a member of the DGPH.

In recent years his work has led him into corporate, architecture and interior photography. He is currently working on a project about industrial architecture in his Rhein-Ruhr homeland.

Visit his website focused on interior and exterior themes for more information or email Dirk directly.

Ed Wolkis is an architectural and commercial photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has earned over 20 national and international awards while working for clients such as Owens Corning, Delta Airlines, General Electric, Turner Broadcasting Systems, ABC-TV, CBS, Coca-Cola, IBM, The Home Depot, CNN, Colliers Spectrum Cauble, Perkins and Will, Havertys Furniture and Sotheby's International Realty.

Ed's work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, National Geographic, and Town and Country Magazine.

His subjects have ranged from President George Bush to yak herders in Tibet. Ed is the author of the book 'How To Take Photos That Move Houses'. He has been a speaker at the International Medical Volunteerism Conference at Emory, and is a part time photography instructor at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta.

Ed is available for photography anywhere in the world and offers seminars for real estate, architecture, and design professionals.

Florian Arvanitopoulos is based in central Hamburg, Germany and specialises in still life, interior and textile photography. He shoots for advertising clients, magazines and catalogues.

Florian is the second generation owner of Fotostudio Arva, located in a former cinema that was in use until the late 1960s. The studio offers a creative environment and an excellent working space from where Florian does most of his work and where he builds all sets according to clients' specific requirements.

He is fortunate to have a wide range of clients including Beiersdorf, Bitburger Brauerei, Bosch, Commerzbank, Gerry Weber, Karstadt, KIA Automobile, Lucky Strike Originals, Osram, OTTO Group, Shell, Schneider Creatrade Group, Unicef, Veltins and many more.

Born in Rethymno, Greece, George Iliakis started his career as a live visual artist in major dance events in the UK and Greece.

He is a co-founder of DesignGraphic, an advertising company, and founder of FotoGraphic, the photography department of the company.

He is based in Greece but he can provide his services internationally. Since 2008, he has worked as a commercial photographer specialising in architecture photography.

He has worked for architects and major tourism businesses.

Visit his website to see more of his diverse work.

Based in Cincinnati Ohio, Greg Grupenhof has been shooting residential, commercial and hotel photography since the turn of the century.

A specialist in Architectural, Commercial and Outdoor photography Greg has worked with global brands such as Hyatt Hotels, Holiday Inn, Wyndham Hotels and the Marriott group, as well as many custom home builders across the US. His photography has been published in numerous books and national magazines and he has been appointed as “The Official Photographer" for multiple Home Shows with National HBA’s.

Greg is dedicated to understanding his clients needs, providing them with turnkey services. His primary goal is to help his clients to build their brands with his stunning imagery. Contact Greg now to get the maximum exposure promoting your brand. He is available to work both nationally and internationally.

Jakub Dvorak's favourite tools are a 0.7 mm Faber Castel pencil and a camera. As co-founder of a design studio his pictures are imagined in the context of a design piece, creating them as part of a communications concept. They are often pre-created as a sketch, but he is careful not to kill the spontaneity and visual challenges of the actual shooting experience.

Delivering the message, being prepared, still staying spontaneous; this is the balance of Jakub's shooting style.

"Technological revolutions today not only bring new tools every couple of months, but most importantly new approaches to actual creative processes for photography. This results in simple changes to the picture rather than its technical parameters."

Joe Schmelzer is an editorial and commercial photographer specialising in hotel, food, environmental and celebrity portraits.

Recognised for the natural window-light quality of his images, and with a knack for making even the prickliest subjects feel at ease, Joe’s work has appeared in every major interiors-centric magazine, website and blog, with Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Vogue UK among his clients.

Joe’s ability to help clients achieve their own creative vision has also made him a sought-after commercial photographer for high-profile brands including Dorchester Hotel Collection, Sub-Zero/Wolf Appliances and Pottery Barn.

Joe and long-time canine sidekick Parker now make their home-office in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Joe oversees all aspects of photo/video projects through his independently owned company, Treasurbite Studio, Inc.

Originally from Athens, Greece, John Athimaritis has recently moved to London but travels extensively for commissions throughout Europe.

In 2016 he became certified photographer of the Six Senses Resort & Spa Group (for the Europe region). His work has been published in several magazines and websites worldwide, including Ferrari Magazine by Condé Nast, Scanorama SAS inflight magazine, US Hotel Magazine, Interior Design, Six Senses Resort & Spa and more.

John is a member of the Association of Photographers (AOP).

Specialising in interiors, Jonas Ingerstedt is an international advertising photographer with 30 years of experience in fashion, beauty and lifestyle. He is known for his crisp, natural Scandinavian style, working almost entirely with natural light to capture the true beauty of any interior in natural, poetic still lifes.

Jonas’ distinct body of work includes frequent editorials for leading interior publications like Elle Deco, Plaza Deco, Residence, Family Living and Abitare, as well as commercial work for major interior design brands like Kinfolk, Linum, Ikea, Layered, H&M Home, Dwell, Planoform, Norrgavel, Marbodal, Canada Goose Home, Villeroy & Boch, and many more.

Lars Ranek is based in Copenhagen and has been a professional advertising and commercial photographer since 1989. He specialises in food and drink and interior photography.

His clients include a number of publishing houses and magazines such as Magazine Gastro, Euroman, Mad og Bolig, Pleasure Magazine, Marie Claire (France), Australian Vogue, House and Gardens, Wallpaper, Quadrille Publishing, Eilersen Funiture, Falsled Kro, Skøna Hem (Sweden) and Skodsborg Spa.

Australian-born photographer Mark Roskams started his career in the mid 80s when he began travelling the world and developing his interest in photographing architecture and design.

His work led him from New York to Florida, the Caribbean and Europe before he finally settled back in New York.

His photographs have appeared in a wide variety of international magazines including AD Germany, France, Italy, Russia and China, as well as many others. In 2011, his book of architecture and interiors 'Masseria - The Italian Farmhouses of Puglia' was published by Rizzoli International.

During this time, Mark has crafted his style of using natural light to give structure and design to abstract shapes, working with form and colour to produce recognisable work.

Piotr Krajewski specialises in architectural and interior photography. In 2009 he graduated from university with a Master’s Degree in Architecture and started his career as a architectural photographer.

He has since worked with many renowned architectural studios and companies from the construction and production industries, as well as advertising clients, including Volkswagen Poland, Ernst & Young, Cushman & Wakefield, Broadway Malyan, Novotel, Massimiliano Fuksas Architetto and Kuryłowicz & Associates. His images have been published in magazines such as Architektura Murator, db deutsche bauzeitung, A10 and Zawód:Architekt.

Piotr currently lives and works in Warsaw for clients across Poland and Europe. Visit his website for more information.

Ralph Wentz is the head and eye of RAW, a studio for photography and design based in Cologne, Germany. Ralph works for interior designers, architects, furniture and floor manufacturers and agencies on commission all over Europe.

As the son of a famous German architect Ralph has been around great buildings and interiors his whole life and has wittnessed the process of creating space and structure first hand. As a result, he has developed a deep understanding for the cause and the effect of interior and exterior design and translates that understanding into his pictures.

On commissions Ralph works closely with his customers to get a feel for their vision and objectives. "I try to see what they see, try to understand what they envisioned. In the end it's not about my work, it's about theirs!“

Ralph has a reputation for the clear and precise image, having a long-lasting experience in large format photography. As a designer, Ralph handles most of the set design himself when needed.

Ricardo Junqueira is based in Lisbon, Portugal and is available for photography assignments all over the world. He is an experienced photographer specialised in interior, exterior architecture, advertising, and lifestyle. The passion for what he does has taken him all over the world to shoot stories, editorials, advertising and catalogues.

Ricardo's clients include architects, developers, ad agencies and business creatives. With over 30 years of experience photographing from the ground and the skies, drive for perfection in his imagery is clear. Strong relationships with clients prove his dedication to understanding their needs and going beyond.

He travels light, loves flying, has a valid passport, has always an easygoing reputation and works really hard to make his clients look great.

Over the years, he has photographed for a range of magazines and commercial clients such as: Casa Vogue Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller Turkey, Elle, Grup Serhs, Editora Abril, Editora Globo, Airbnb, Alamy, Getty Images, Basf, Petrobrás, and Itaú Bank.

Scott Burrows is a new-age specialist architectural photographer with over 15 years' experience behind the lens. His main client body includes architects and interior designers who demand the utmost in attention to detail.

His intimate love of the design process allows him to create images that are beautifully crafted, demonstrating a level of understanding of the highest technical standards.

Scott’s work sees him travel regularly throughout Australia and the South East Asian markets with the occasional assignment into parts of China, New Zealand and Pacific Rim countries. In an era where architectural imagery is highly formulated and developing a sense of sameness, Scott’s work is setting a standard for his clients who want to stand out against the majority.

His work is regularly featured in many high-end design books and a range of design industry relevant magazines. He is available for commissions worldwide.