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Spotlight Magazine
7 Seas Productions
France - Colombia - Cuba - Argentina
Celebrating 22 years in the business, 7 Seas continues to take clients all over the world to capture the most exotic, beautiful and aspirational locations. With offices in France, Colombia, Cuba, Argentina and Chamonix, 7 Seas has all seasons covered and knows the ‘who’ and the ‘where’ in each location - with people on the ground and a persuasive database.
Trusted production partners to some of the biggest names in fashion, 7 Seas understands the needs of each shoot and their experienced team of producers can manage all elements of a project from start to finish. Including location scouting, travel bookings, budget management, organising visas and permits, equipment rental, local street casting, logistics and all on-ground requirements.
Zara, Vogue, Zimmermann, For Love and Lemons, Hermès and Bloomingdale’s - some of fashion's heavyweights who chose 7 Seas to produce captivating campaign and editorial work. 7 Seas specialises in on-location shoots and seamlessly manages each project with professionalism, ease, transparency, a friendly smile and no attitude.
Let them prove to you why they have a glowing reputation by choosing them for your next shoot!
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add pictures!
Munich
add pictures is a full-service production for commercial photo and film projects, established in Munich in 2004.
Almost 100 shooting days since the pandemic started, but not a single incidence - add pictures with its strict hygiene measures proved that safe shooting under these circumstances is not an issue. The challenge of the year was a remote production for a global campaign with several film and still cameras both shooting and streaming, working with clients, agencies and directors spread over three time zones. It all worked out to the clients' delight, even in the short timeframe given by a famous athlete.
add pictures recently worked for clients like EA Sports, Ernsting's family, Gerry Weber, Google, Infineon, MAN, mybet, O2 Telefonica, Porsche, TDK.
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Showcase Magazine
Avenger Photographers
Photo agents
Avenger Photographers is a Munich-based photography agency representing leading beauty, fashion, portrait, people, advertising, sports and still life photographers.
For over 20 years, Avenger Photographers has been renowned for representing a professional and creative group of photographers. All of its individual photographers have been shooting new things so this Showcase only shows a small selection.
All recent shoots and the latest news can be seen on the agency's website.
Recent productions include:
- C&A shot by Steve Marais in Slovenia
- TV commercial for Oral B in cooperation with FCBayern - stills and film director Dirk Bader
- Gabor campaign stills and video shot by Jörg Schieferecke
- Cupra goes fashion week stills and video shot by Reno Mezger.
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Katrin Winner
Food & drink photographers
After completing her training as a Media Designer, Katrin Winner went to Nuremberg to study graphic design and photography.
She found her professional fulfilment by combining her passion for good food with her artistic creativity and has since worked as a food photographer.
Due to the farm her parents own and working with them over the years, she knows exactly how much hard work and energy it takes to produce fresh and organic food, so she‘s always eager to work sustainably.
During her studies, Katrin gained experience in well-known food photography studios in Hamburg and Munich. After five years as a photographer, she decided at the beginning of 2018 to set up her own studio for food and still life photography in Munich.
You can follow Katrin on Instagram.
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Astrid Obert
Fashion and Lifestyle Photographers
Astrid Obert is an acknowledged advertising, lifestyle and fashion photographer, internationally acclaimed for her subtle yet exquisite expressive, lively style of photography.
Astrid produces vibrant and progressive campaigns for renowned brands, advertising agencies, celebrities, and selected magazines based in Europe and Cape Town.
Astrid's work is timeless, dynamic and client-centred. She works with established professional teams worldwide and offers a complete full production service for established brands, companies, experts and startups.
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Stefan Hobmaier
Corporate and Portrait Photographers
Stefan Hobmaier is a freelance photographer based in Berlin and Munich, focusing on portrait, reportage and industrial photography.
Always working on personal projects, he develops new styles and integrates new techniques into his commercial and editorial work. Agencies, corporate clients and magazines appreciate his honest, natural and lively imagery that gets people's attention.
His national and international clients include Audi, BMW, Osram, Bosch, Hornbach, Intel, Google, ProSiebenSat1, MAN, H&M, Porsche, Mazda, Siemens Healthineers, SZ Scala, Trumpf, Epiroc, C3, Hoffmann&Campe, Territory, Condé Nast, Impulse, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, FourFourTwo, Haymarket, Redwood and various international clients, agencies, B2B and B2C magazines.
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Rainer Häckl
Corporate, Portrait and Sports Photographers
Munich-based photographer Rainer Haeckl loves capturing people, at work and in their spare time.
Specialising in corporate, sports and advertising photography, Rainer is regularly commissioned to shoot for a variety of related projects by a broad range of clients. Putting his subjects at ease, Rainer shoots engaging portraits and captures real life moments in his unique and authentic style.
Before his career as a professional photographer, Rainer worked as a graphic designer and art director. Therefore he has a deeper understanding of the clients' side and needs during production. Most of the post-production work is done by himself.
Among his clients are leading global and local brands and ad agencies. Recent clients include BMW, Munich Indoor Basketball, STEADFORCE, LEDVANCE, RSU Rating Service Unit, Sidley Austin, Watson Farley Williams, speedfitness, ACISO.
To most of his clients, he has a long lasting working relationship.
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Showcase Magazine
Michael Mueller Fotografie
Sport and People & Lifestyle Photographers
Creating visual moments - the art of catching a unique moment, as natural and real as possible, without the help of artificial light, is the main motivation behind people, sport and lifestyle photographer Michael Müller's work.It's also the reason why he was booked by Superdry to shot their global campaign #windifferent. They shot the themes 'flex', 'train' and 'run' on location in London and Bristol.
Accompanying a project from the first idea to the conception, over to its production and finally, the post-production, is for him a significant key to ensure the best possible results. He is supported by a strong team that shares his passion for photography.
Michael recently shot for clients including About you, BASF, Buff, DKV Mobility, Dynafit, Odlo, Otto Kern Fragrances, Powerbar, Superdry, Würth.
He is represented in Germany by Agency Neubauer from Munich, in Scandinavia by NorwayRepresents and in the US by Atmsphr.
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Spotlight Magazine
Mierswa-Kluska
Munich
Mierswa-Kluska's high-end clients - global brands in cosmetics, cars, design or jewellery - often have big expectations.
They have worked for years on their products and the imagery created by Mierswa-Kluska becomes the public face of something in which they have invested time, dedication and love.
Employing the visual language of today and tomorrow, Mierswa-Kluska offers full-service content creation ranging from high-end product photography to CGI and moving images of cinematic quality.
In their studio in central Munich they have a collective of photographers, retouchers, visual artists, directors and back-office staff enabling an integrated production.
The corona situation has pushed them. They offer their clients a livestream. No matter where art director or client are, they can participate in the shooting live with different angles via an image mixer.
Even the direct view through the camera can be transmitted all over the world.
Mierswa-Kluska were lucky to get one of only 1500 built polestar 1 for this free project.
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FGV Schmidle
Munich - Berlin
"Like many in our industry, we are currently 100% available for our customers - our studio is also currently being booked and used - our cleaning service has appropriate hygiene training and can, therefore, meet all requirements - nevertheless, it is of course up to the tenant to carry this out and the meet requirements in each case. But we are prepared!"
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.