Being trained as doctor's assistant, a master's degree in architecture, an exploitative job at a fast food restaurant, taking care of dying people, washing and feeding them, designing luxury real estate, selling advertisement in behalf of a publisher, drawing blood, coaching constructors, heating up the crowd at trade shows, selling dildos to men and women, posing for catalogues, dancing in video clips, retouching high-end advertisement. Alongside all of these jobs, for Robert Sakowski there has always been one constant factor: photography.

His clients include major brands like BMW, ZDF, Milupa, Deutsche Bank AG.

You can follow Robert Sakowski on Instagram.

Draw a circle around Paris and look at France's boundaries: that's where 7 Seas Productions is strongest. Biarritz, Île de Ré, Deauville, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco and not to forget the overwhelmingly beautiful Alps, served by 7 Seas little sister 7 Mountains Productions out of Chamonix. They just finished in October a campaign by NET-A-PORTER with South Korean model Gayoung Ko on a glacier in Switzerland. Pictures – as always- to follow.

Earlier this year they carried out a big film and photo production for Berlin's BWGTBLD GmbH and their client L´Occitane de Provence in Marseille. And France's boundaries don't stop at the frontiers, Mercedes AMG and the Guide Michelin took 7 Seas Productions to San Sebastián, Spain for a Film and Photo production with RAPP Berlin.

The slider shows a campaign for Mango in a Havana-style Villa in Biarritz. The film is an AUDI eTron production around Chamonix, filmed also in Switzerland and Italy.

The recently realised projects from Sonja Heintschel's rooster of photographers are featured in this Spotlight.

Eric Frideen was shooting the well-known rugby player Romain Ntamack in Toulouse for the French fashion Brand Eden Park.

Marco Trunz was super busy with the latest Lanius image campaign and folder, a campaign for the eyewear brand OWP and a free editorial. 

Markus Burke did a cover shoot for GQ and again a super cool campaign for the lifestyle brand Porsche Design.

Still life photographer Sarah Fürbringer did a nice advertorial for Conde Nast – AD magazine – and Krug Champagne and a personal project with natural skincare products.

Mario Schmolka had a fancy shoot for “Wiener Linien” – a fashion collection for the public transport team for more visibility in the dark months.

Christian Borth did a night shooting for Engelhorn and Jonathan Stokes was travelling – after a long while – to Italy and capturing people in restaurants. 

Thomas Knieps was confirmed by Douglas – for a campaign shooting of their skincare brand called Focus.

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Avenger Photographers is a Munich-based photography agency representing leading beauty, fashion, portrait, people, advertising, corporate, reportage, sports and still life photographers.

For over 20 years, Avenger Photographers has been renowned for representing a professional and creative group of photographers. 

"We all are working with imagination, business know-how and creative sensibility. All our client's experience is a deeply rewarding and long-term business relationship."

All of their individual photographers have been shooting new things so this Spotlight only shows a small selection.

All recent shoots and latest news can be seen on the Avenger website.

Michael Mueller has shot the TrueOriginals campaign for Buff.

"The challenge was to find groups of friends and follow and capture their adventures in a way that is authentic and inspiring - but always from the perspective of the product.

In five days we shot urban running, commuting, gravel bike, road bike, trekking and trail running. Tough timing, but we found a real cool cast for all the topics and the city of Oslo and the Jotunheimen National Park in Norway gave us the perfect autumn looking locations we needed for this campaign. "

This Original Buff campaign was shot for Fresh Britain, and production was handled by Natural Born Explorers.

Check out Michael's website. Michael is represented by Agentur Neubauer in Germany, NODOP in Scandinavia and ATMSPHR in the United States.

Stefan Hobmaier is a freelance photographer based in Berlin and Munich, focusing on portrait, reportage and corporate photography. Always working on personal projects, he develops new styles and integrates new techniques into his commercial and editorial work.

Agencies, industrial clients and magazines appreciate his honest, natural and lively imagery that gets people's attention.

Very recently he finished the new employer branding campaign for the city of Munich and Google’s brand new robotics company Intrinsic launched a new website with his images.

His national and international clients include Audi, BMW, Osram, Bosch, Hornbach, Intel, Intrinsic, Google, ProSiebenSat1, MAN, H&M, Porsche, Mazda, Siemens Healthineers, SZ Scala, Trumpf, Epiroc, C3, Hoffmann&Campe, Territory, Condé Nast, Laut von Leise, Interone, Thjnk, Impulse, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, FourFourTwo, Haymarket, Redwood and various international clients, agencies, B2B and B2C magazines.

Felix Baab, based near Munich, is a young freelance photographer. He specialises in portrait, advertising and corporate / industrial photography.

At the age of 17, he’d already photographed his first advertising campaign for an eyewear label. He subsequently tried his hand at various areas of photography before finding his passion in corporate and advertising photography. 

What fascinates him is constantly getting to know new, interesting people and companies in order to capture them in his photography. Accordingly, interpersonal relations are important to him. His visual language is professional, friendly and honest.

References: BMW Sales and Marketing, Salesforce Munich, BFW Bayern, KM-Wohnbau, Allgäu GmbH, ContentGuru, Penta Events, Hirschvogel Ventures, Sparkasse Oberland, Sitour, Funk Eyewear, One Luxury.

Title: Tri Angle

"I live in Munich, close to the historical site of the 1972 Olympics. I have always had an admiration for sports pictograms from legendary designer Otl Aicher. Inspired by their amazing simplicity, my photograph is part of a playful series of abstracted images intelligently reducing to the max."

Emphasising the company's close cooperation with all the hidden stars behind the camera and on set, with a wink of an eye FGV Schmidle claims "We are the 'Making of!'"

FGV is deeply rooted in the international film industry, and with vast experience and an impressive inventory has been providing leading production services for decades. Consistent cooperation and communication is a vital part of the company’s knowledge base. As a result, clients are able to do their jobs better, be it with the latest high-tech equipment, through the team's technically demanding solutions, or even its own developments.

Established in 1972, and with home bases in Munich and Berlin, FGV Rental provides services including camera systems (digital, film, and photo), lighting (daylight, tungsten, LED, tube, photo), grip (from cranes to dollies, tripods, stands and more), and vehicles, all with a 24/7 rental pick-up and return policy.

A 700 m² / 7,500 sq.ft. studio located on the Munich premises benefits from great transportation connections. Features include a ceiling height of 12m/40ft, motorised green- and blue-screens, three motorised rigs for loads of up to two tons each, a 7x14m (24x46ft) ceiling reflector, a Cyclorama covering two walls (24x29x11m / 79x95x36ft), production offices, an industry standard kitchen and parking lot.

Kai Stiepel is an established food photographer from Munich. 

He loves to set things in a scene to elicit emotions from the viewer. Besides food and drinks, he also loves to create still life that becomes alive through Kai's masterful use of lighting.

In the meantime, he serves his customers with emotional food films as he originally wanted to be a filmmaker and then migrated to photography. That's how he closes the circle.

You can find more information on his website or on Instagram under @kaistiepel.