Claus Morgenstern is based in Berlin and has focused on portrait, corporate, documentary and advertising photography for the last 10 years. Although he is a founder of a studio community called WERFTSTUDIO in Mannheim, he mostly works on location.

His natural and graphic style is the result of creative intuition and an understanding of light and composition. Claus has an ability to create a casual atmosphere for extraordinary but mainly honest images. Staged portraits, but also sensitively photographed stories can be found in his portfolio.

Working with a network of specialised partners, Claus offers full production management from one central source, demanding the highest quality support and organisation across all elements of a shoot.

He works for German magazines and agencies and shoots corporate communications for many leading companies including Air Plus, Trumpf, Tenneco and WI Bank. Claus speaks German and English and enjoys travelling all over the world for his clients.

MOTIONCTRL is a creative film production company based near Frankfurt. Specialising in commercial, automotive and action sports films, in-house services cover the whole production cycle of concept, production and post-production.

Most of the technical equipment is held in stock, including special devices like shot-maker cars, heavy lifter aerial drones and camera rigs, making it readily available to clients at reasonable rates and - most importantly - on short notice.

The company owns and operates a fully equipped cyclorama studio complete with full body green screen filming and tabletop studio for product filming.

Celebrating over 10 years of experience in 2017, MOTIONCTRL has created a number of visually stunning commercials and a range of multi-platform content for clients including Zeiss, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Pirelli, Falken Tyres, JOKA, Abarth, Getrag, Jones Lang LaSalle, BNP Paribas Real Estate and many more.

East West Models was founded in 1989, with its young and dedicated team enabling success over the past three decades. Director Marcus Streil has built up an international network via his Frankfurt-based agency, with the strong scouting and development division a powerful component of its continued success.

Clients including Porsche Design, Bogner, Louis Vuitton, Nivea, Airfield, Braun, Harper's Bazaar and Madame Magazine are just some of the names that have placed trust in East West Models to provide the right models for their campaigns, editorial and show bookings.

The agency works with photographers including Alexei Hay, Alexandra Sophie, Benoit Peverelli, Benjamin Lennox, Bryan Adams, David Oldham, David Sims, Emma Summerton, Gregory Harris, Kelly Klein, Kacper Kasprzyk, Olaf Wipperfürth, Patrick Houi, Sean and Seng, Sabine Villiard, and Ward Ivan Rafik.

"East West Models is more than just a German modelling agency - it is one of the best portals for entry into the international market for young models."

The agency offers a full service for any given model request and is available to answer all types of query.

Founded in 1996, Castin is a Frankfurt-based casting agency that has grown into an all-inclusive casting service with an index of some 2,500 models. Thanks to many years of experience, advertising, film and photography clients consistently rely on a type-specific cast of characters.

Latest news includes a new look to the company's casting photos: Castin now conducts casting sequences with multiple facial expressions which can be very funny and are a great way for clients to see more of each model.

Castin also presents its new project 'Castkids', including kids of all ages.

The company offers make-up artists and stylists and can provide additional casting direction, including live, video and street casting as well as organisation and coordination.

Clients include Hyundai, Porsche, Carglas, Siemens, GLS, Deutsche Bahn, Ferrero, Lufthansa, Ikea, Kia Motors, essence cosmetics, Thomas Cook (Condor), Jaguar, Sony, Westlotto, Commerzbank, Bosch, Lidl, Samsung, Dr. Theiss Naturwaren and MedipharmaCosmetics.

Kombinatrotweiss-Illustration represents a network of highly talented illustrators and painters as well as motion designers from all over Europe. Its team is always searching for new talents and trends to give its clients the highest quality across illustration, animation and 3D solutions.

Digital development brings new challenges for clients and illustrators, and the team is constantly working on being ahead of the newest digital tecniques and conditions. Its illustrators are also working conceptually for social media posts or regular blog entries.

The well trained team helps its clients and illustrators to find the right path and realise projects together in a smooth way.

"Just call us, we are happy to help!"

Leica launched an international campaign for their new M10 with Frankfurt-based photographer Maik Scharfscheer.

With the new Leica M10 in tow, he discovers Zanzibar. The excitement of harvesting the ocean, the hustle and bustle of colourful markets, the rough and tumble of boisterous beach football – Maik documents life on Zanzibar. Discover an exciting, exotic world in fascinating pictures.

Maik was accompanied by cameraman Thomas Stoll, who filmed the adventure with a Leica SL.

Both the photographs and film can be seen in Leica stores worldwide.

Dominik Mentzos enjoys switching between various fields of photography like advertising, portraits, fashion and dance.

“Being confronted with very different types of characters in various surroundings is refreshing and a nice challenge for me“.

Having studied architecture the presentation of space is very important to Dominik. He enjoys to develop the set with light, to create a stage for his performers.

Featured in this Spotlight are visuals from his recent image campaigns for DEKA, Daimler Financial Services and Lufthansa, a long-term client for over 13 years.

After shooting dance for over 25 years he still enjoys capturing the energy of movement, here to be seen in two images he developed for the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.

Other recent clients include Deutsche Bank, Emirates, Hoya, Hugo Boss, The Forsythe Company, ABB / Busch-Jaeger, Nespresso, Deutsche Bahn, ARD, Telekom, Sony, Nintendo, Leptien/Pesch, Commerzbank, MasterCard, PWC and SchumacherFashion.

Dominik is based out of his studio in Frankfurt and is represented by Severin Wendeler in Hamburg.

Hauser Fotografen is headquartered in Frankfurt and represents national and international advertising photographers covering the fields of people, lifestyle, stills, liquids, transportation, landscape, travel, architecture, fashion, beauty, catalogue, babies, kids, sports, portraiture, corporate and celebrities.

The full service agency was established by Veronika Hauser in 2008 and has since become a brand that stands for professionalism, high quality photographers and competent service.

Photographers include:

• Thomas Balzer (Frankfurt) - stills, people, landscape, transportation.
• Martin Bühler (Hamburg/Hannover) – people, lifestyle.
• Rui Camilo (Wiesbaden) - people, architecture, travel and landscape.
• Daniel Chassein (Hamburg) – people, lifestyle.
• Claudia Neu (Dusseldorf) - babies, kids.
• Benno Kraehahn (Berlin) - celebrities, corporate.
• Leif Schmodde (Hamburg) - people, fashion, beauty, travel, landscape.
• Tobias Schult (Berlin) – people, lifestyle, transportation.
• Judith Wagner (Dusseldorf) - portrait, people.
• Jean-Claude Winkler (Stuttgart) - travel, landscape, transportation, people.

In early 2015, Claus Morgenstern visited Innsbruck to shoot a portrait of Mayor Christine Oppitz-Plörer for his series 'Elected Icons'.

He also visited Nordkette mountain, where he discoverd this group of Tibetan monks on their way to visit the local monastery. The resulting images were awarded an Honorable Mention at the IPA awards 2015 and 2016, and were a finalists at the One Eyeland awards 2015.

FOTOKAIN is the creative showcase of Michael Zargarinejad, whose work features shots for music, celebrities, portraits and advertising campaigns. Recent work includes:

• Thomas D., member of Fanta4 / Die Fantastischen Vier, contributed an outstanding song together with his son Max for the kids and family album 'Giraffenaffen'. Michael took several campaign pictures for the platinum music concept released in November with ProSieben and Sat1.
• Michael partnered with Universal Music for the successful TV show 'The Voice Of Germany'. Michael has been lead photographer for the show's talents since series 1, creating individual pictures and concepts for their songs.
 This year, Michael produced in Berlin with the 12 finalists.
• A picture series in collaboration with Fahrzeugschmiede Bad Homburg is a homage to the times when pin-up visuals were still hand-painted. The 'Drink-Thing' will be revealed in 2017.

Michael is available internationally. Visit his newly redesigned website for more information.