Based in Hamburg, celebrity and business portrait photographer Wolfgang Wilde started as a freelance photographer in 1993 with focus on celebrities.

Over the years, he has taken pictures of many of Germany's most famous actors, sportsmen, entertainers and politicians, from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen, German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Claudia Schiffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katarina Witt, Tokio Hotel, Helene Fischer, Vitali and Vladimir Klitschko, Ai Weiwei and Jogi Löw.

He is renowned in the business for transferring good ideas into stunning visuals, and celebrities love to work with him.

Wolfgang also specialises in business portraits. He has worked for Siemens AG (Joe Kayser President and Executive Officer), Daimler AG (Dieter Zetsche, CEO), Mercedes- Benz (Ulf M. Schneider, CEO) Fresenius AG, Otto Group (Michael Otto, CEO), and RyanAir (Michael O`Leary, CEO), to name but a few.

Regardless of whether he is shooting lifestyle, people or fashion photography or they're celebrities, models or real people in front of his lens, Michael Heinsen's interest is always in personality; the character and the situations in which his subjects find themselves.

Values like credibility, authenticity and uniqueness lead Michael's search for the special moment. In this sense, portraiture is his favourite discipline.

His interest in people, his way of working and his sensitive lighting make it easy for the portrayed to feel comfortable.

Michael is based in Hamburg, Berlin and Mallorca and loves to work all over the world.

"Some photographers are seven years old when they get their first camera and have parents that are super artsy fartsy - and some don’t. Florian is one of the latter. He only got into photography at the age of 25; he lived in Malaysia at that time and was lucky to get a good deal on his first DSLR camera.

It took him another year and a trip to South America to realize that photography suits him better than a suit. With all this in mind, he decided to chuck his plans for a Business Masters overboard and traded his grey office desk in for a camera.

These days, he’s doing what he would’ve been doing a lot earlier if he'd gotten the camera when he was seven - he snaps photos and makes films."

Calumet Photographic is a renowned leader in Germany’s photo retailer market and also offers professional rental services. All stores in Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Essen, Stuttgart and Munich have rental stations.

The rental portfolio offers all kinds of photo equipment including cameras, lenses, flash systems and video equipment from brands like Canon, Nikon, Sony, PhaseOne, Fujifilm, Profoto, Broncolor, Arri, and more. Everything is available in large quantities and perfect working order.

The rental staff know what is important: The job must run smoothly. Perfect organisation, great flexibility and comprehensive knowledge about the workflow of big productions ensure that all equipment can be used successfully.

"What makes Calumet Photographic unique? Besides our broad ranging professional rental services, we offer more than 20,000 products for purchase. This shouldn't leave any of your requirements uncovered!"

711rent is a leading professional equipment rental company with eight branches in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Mallorca. All of its offices are conveniently found in city centre locations.

The new Berlin office is located at Friedrichstr. 235, just a few metres south of Checkpoint Charlie. Clients will find the company's renowned  24/7 service featuring the full range of lighting, strobe, camera, grip and more. Parking spaces for convenient pick up are available.

The 711rent network makes it easy for customers to get any type of support, no matter where they pick up equipment. 711rent carries well-maintained gear covering all major brands, with recent additions including the Arri Skypanel range, Nikon Z7, Sony lenses, Sigma Art lenses and the Profoto B10.

711rent’s individual locations cover all of Europe with their service and can also supply large sets. Get in touch with your local shop to organise your shoot.

Johannes Knuth is a multi-award-winning photographer and director. His story-telling images are all about life, candid moments and people's dreams.

Johannes is driven by a passion for the decisive moment. Clients around the globe appreciate his unique emotional documentary style; all techniques and lighting skills he uses support a naturally distinctive look and feel.

Whether photo, film or both at once, Johannes teams up with the best experts to realize any great idea. Clients trusting his skills for national and global ad campaigns include Arena, Generali, Huawei, Volkswagen, Samsung, Philip Morris, Otto, E.on, Procter&Gamble, Siemens and Sony Music.

Johannes has received accolades at Paris Photo, American Photography and Latin American awards, Triennieal of Photography in Hamburg and is poised to become “One of the industry’s most talented artists and creatives” (American Photography jury).

He is represented by Nitrox Artists Management.

Michael Heinsen has once again worked for clients Miele and Lloyd.

Miele has introduced an innovative wine fridge with integrated Sommelier Set that satisfies the needs of every wine connoisseur. Michael realised the campaign using a high quality combination of photo, film and gif animations.

With the current autumn/winter collection, Lloyd celebrates 50 years of the red stripe. Michael realised the campaign through authentic and lively pictures and videos.

In both campaigns, Michael shows his specialty of credible, atmospheric and high quality lifestyle, people and portrait photography. His film lighting is well suited for the parallel realisation of videos.

In this Spotlight, Christoph show us his images that have won recent awards, magazine editorials as well as this summer's campaigns.

Thanks to his series of portraits for BEEF magazine he has been selected by Lürzers Magazine as one of the 200 best Advertising Photographers worldwide in 2018/19. A title that was awarded to him already in 2012/13.

A film he made for the Loki Schmidt Foundation has won Christoph a golden palm at the International Deauville Green Awards. In just over 60 seconds, the film shows the work of the this environmental foundation, translated into symbolic scenes.

Christoph has also photographed the cover of the first issue for the new German magazine Gute Jahre.

Finally, he includes a personal project, "A day at the sea" which captures a couple as they spend a long beautiful summer on the beach in a series of emotive scenes.

Fabian Sommer was born in Berlin and studied photography before going on to assist national and international photographers in locations around the world for 10 years.

After a stay in Milan and Paris, he is now based in Hamburg with his family.

Fabian has been focused on advertising, kids and lifestyle photography since 2012. His empathy for kids - and people in general - is clearly seen through his photography, and he always looks for a natural and authentic moment.

Clients include TüV-Süd, Stepe by Step, AboutYou, HKK-Verischerung, Car2Share, Daimler-Benz, Panasonic, Spiegel, Springer, Bild and many more.

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The atelier in Hamburg, Altona is known for its creative image design. Many years of photographic creativity and experience are now complemented with the application of the latest technologies and CGI.

"We visualise creative ideas and combine photography with CGI."

The art of making clear statements by means of powerful images has always been Jo van den Berg's trademark. He is known as a competent partner for his design work in photography and film. Typical of his style are the impressive arrangements that reflect an eye for detail, and qualify as state-of-the-art in the field of visual communication.

Joris van den Berg has been working professionally in the field of CGI for print and film for 10 years. He is actively involved in supporting on-going developments in 3D software (Pixar, among others). He has been in demand as a 3D artist and supervisor for clients such as VW, Audi, Porsche and Mercedes since 2012.