Claus Morgenstern is a Mannheim/ Berlin-based photographer and director with 12 years of experience, lots of exciting input and an absolute hands-on mentality. Whether a small editorial or large advertising production, his special interest is people and their encounters.

Claus loves to dive into situations, driven by perspectives and different angles, drawing a line somewhere between the documentary and commercial look. Always with a focus on personal connections. Among his clients are Volvo, Lufthansa, Siemens, KFW Bank and many others.

Sebastian Matthias is a multiskilled photographer and digital artist from Germany. His main work area is portrait photography as well as staged and very unusual still photography. Besides this, he creates digital art by combining film and photography into breathtaking cinemagraphs. From his experience working in the film business, he gained the experience to understand motion and light at the same time.

As a photographer, Sebastian mainly shoots business portraits and image campaigns for medium sized companies and stages unusual pictures in product photography for various companies, often from the wine industry.

His cinemagraphs, a symbiosis of film and photography, are each a piece of art that keeps the audience watching.

Sebastian pushes the boundaries of cinemagraph every time and could be called a 'cinemagraph-guru' by now.

Sebastian is a positive minded person, believing in the good energy of art and always tries to bring that special feeling into every project.

Hinterbergwerk is the finest studio space in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main area for shooting cars, embargo prototypes, fashion and sets.

"We are a purpose built studio located in a historic and charming building only 15 minutes away from Frankfurt international airport. Special features are a 26m cyclorama on a 180° floor plan, remote-controlled floating flat (9m x 7m), front-of cove black drapery system, 7m wide green screen and overhead top-shot platform.

We are also offering live streaming events and online product presentations during Covid 19 pandemic; hygienic policies are strictly taken into account.

Our well-versed team will take care of any requests to ensure successful and stress-relieved productions."

"Somebody said that I am a dreamer, I never knew why, but now I see." This quote comes from the new album Horizons / East by Thrice, an album that Per listened to while he was working on his series "From the sketch".

Per teamed up with the wonderful Illustrator Jane Kühn to realise this series he had dreamed of for a long time. This series shows a totally different understanding of "fashion photography". 

Another dream came true when Per had the opportunity to portray Titus Dittmann, the founder of Titus Skateboards and Skate Aid.

"It felt great to meet a teenage role model and beside taking photos, speaking about skateboarding and all those fun memories."

As we are speaking about dreams, Per can really say that he is living a dream, realising the ongoing series "Imagination" with his fiancé Nele E. A. Ebner.

Furthermore, the German band NUKX, well known to Per since his teenage days, came up with the idea of conceiving a music video for their new song 'Anders sehen'. As the band wanted to give Per complete creative freedom, he started to write the script, inspired by the sound and lyrics of the song, as well as the still present corona situation. Watching the video you will understand the context.

"It's a pleasure to photograph old racing cars because the 'Garage Queens' are charming. In contrast to old cars, the new vehicles have a brute appearance. They are extraordinarily extroverted."

Lukasz loves getting lost in 1000 details and getting the best out of different points of view. 

High quality impressions with skilful lighting are the "daily bread" for Lukasz.

Claus Morgenstern is a fun guy to work with, as they say. He is based in Mannheim and Berlin, Germany. In his studio he provides all the measures needed in these difficult times. He has been around for more than 10 years and is still always up for new adventures. 

He is represented in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the fabulous BOSCH to BANRAP Team. 

Recently he worked on Microsoft Teams, a mixed project combining moving images and stills photography. Then there is a new personal project 'Weallcare' and some lookbook pictures for the FEMALE PHOTOCLUB. So new working situations are always welcomed.

"And if you’re the last one left. This is my request, could you just shut off the lights?" A quote from the band Knapsack from their song 'Please shut off the lights' - Look it up on Spotify, hit play and enjoy this Spotlight magazine.

Welcome to the selection of Per Schorn, people and portrait photographer based in Frankfurt.

Per visited painter Hendrik Zimmer in his studio a few weeks ago and created with him an atmospheric series showing the artist working for new exhibitions in the US.

Another series features Alex Espigares, who is working as an animator on films like Happy Feet 2 and Iron Man 3, and in 2014 won an Oscar in the category Best animated short film as director for the film 'Mr. Hublot'.

In addition to these works, you can also see an advertising campaign for Omen by HP, which Per Schorn realised with his team at the end of 2020. Per Schorn's passion for a sophisticated lighting mood and his ambition to get the absolute best out of every image can be seen in every pixel of all his images.

The lifestyle series for Revelation Records was created at Huntington Beach in California, where the label is located.

Last but not least a cover shoot for the band The Tex Avery Syndrome.

Patrick Zasada is a product photographer, located near Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Mannheim. His focus lies on still life and advertising photography. He creates luxurious product shoots with silky light gradients. In this Showcase Patrick would like to show some of his still life and food photos.

Some of Patrick’s clients include Accor Hotel Group, Bellavia, Byodo, Continental, Chanel, CyrusOne, EbaraCorporation, Gerresheimer AG, Global Switch, Hessenagentur, Hilton Hotels, Interhomes AG, KT Bank, Köbig, Medochemie, R+V, Vanguard Inc. and ZMS Zeppelin.

Lukasz started his photography journey capturing the life on his local streets and collecting perfect locations for photo shoots.

Through street photography Lukasz was able to develop the skills to make the ordinary look extraordinary and create authentic and natural images.

Go to his website to see more of his work.

"Light & shadows. Where there is light, there is also darkness. Darkness gives bright scenes an interesting character. And vice versa. It is your decision what you choose, to give darkness a little bit of light or a little darkness to the brightness."