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Iver Hansen
Car & transportation photographers
Iver Hansen is a Dusseldorf-based car photographer with many years of experience. In 1984, Iver designed and built his own studio, specialized in car photography.
In 1996 he included professional post production in his workflow and a few years later he started using CGI in-house. In 2002, Iver produced his first full-CGI campain for Audi.
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Felix Gemein
People and Aerial Photographers
Felix Gemein is a Dusseldorf-based photographer specialised in people, documentary and aerial photography. His list of clients include brands like Huawei, Red Bull, Pacific Airlines, NRW bank, Sony Playstation, Claas, Veolia and many more.
Felix's photoraphy tries to capture the true character of his subjects. This, combined with the clean geometry of his works, creates a unique and expressive style.
In 2012 Felix discovered his passion for aerial photography and now keeps working in this area as a skilled drone pilot for video and photo production.
Currently Felix and his team are working on a big documentary about RC-Sports, the world full of fascination for engineering, technology and competitions.
To know more about the recent projects and to see more work, visit his website.
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Harry Vorsteher
Fashion photographers
Harry Vorsteher is an award-winning fashion, beauty and kids photographer based in Dusseldorf and working for clients worldwide. His portfolio boasts works done for the biggest advertising agencies such as McCann Erickson Hamburg, BBDO, Ogilvy, renowned brands like Nissan, Bosch, Audi, MEXX, Sony and editorials like Elle Germany, In Fashion and Men Style, among others.
His creativity is focused on achieving essential results and outstanding outcomes for his clients.
Taking natural and individual images is Harry's main motivation. His results are characterised by a unique sensitivity and creativity in which he strives for the perfect moment, captured in that one picture.
To see more works of Harry Vorsteher and get more information about recent projects visit his website.
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Peter Wattendorff
People and Fashion Photographers
If you’re looking for compact and serious fashion productions, organised, produced and post-produced in North Germany, Peter Wattendorff and his five-headed team will surprise you with extraordinary high class contemporary photography, as well as specific image processing.
Regularly shooting for well known German clients and agencies, they shoot in the studio and out on location. Fotografie Wattendorff GmbH has only state of the art equipment on hand as well as HMI for parallel video productions.
Clients include: Sieger Fashion, Cavallo, Spiegelburg, Ernstings Family, Apetito, BASF, Eon, Sparda Bank and LVM.
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Thorsten Schmidtkord
Corporate and Aerial photographers
Thorsten Schmidtkord is specialised on corporate communications, shooting industrial processes, employees in their work environment and capital goods, among other things. He shoots it in an unique way for each company.
Thorsten’s clients book him to do photo shoots for their annual reports, company brochures, websites and customer magazines. To name just a few examples, Thorsten portrayed the staff of MLP, created the expressive image motifs for BMD and did the fascinating airshots for the CLAAS tractor campaign. Each company is unique and each company’s visual materials should be unique too. This is the task of Thorsten Schmidtkord.
Clients include ABUS, CLAAS, Wirtgen, Gelsenwasser, Siempelkamp, Klöckner, and Haniel, among others.
Thorsten Schmidtkord is represented by EXPOSE Photographers.
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Frank van Groen
Advertising photographers
To Frank, the main part of a good photographic result is to get in contact with the person, who he has to shoot. He is a very sensitive, empathetic and open minded photographer, who is able to make people feel comfortable during the shoot, doesn’t matter if he works with a trainee, a professional, the management board, an everyday person, an artist or a celebrity. As a consequence, Frank is mainly working as a people and portrait photographer in the fields of corporate communications with a main focus on employer branding campaigns and advertising campaigns. He also works with several national and international magazines, where he often portraits people or shoots stories.
Clients include Amazon, AOK, Beumer Group, BNP Paribas, Degussa Bank, E.ON, FREUNDIN, Itelligence, MAN Magazine, Michelin, Modern Painters, Reader’s Digest Magazine, Sick AG, and Stadt Sparkasse Düsseldorf, among others.
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Holger Puhl
Still Life and Advertising photographers
Holger Puhl is a Dusseldorf-based photographer specialising in high-class still life and advertising photography. His clients' list includes renowned brands such as Lancôme, L’Oréal, LVMH, BootsLaboratories, YSL as well as international agencies like McCann and Havas Worldwide.
Holger's work is marked by his passion for an elegant use of lighting and composition as well as by his patience and attention to detail. Holger's precise technique transforms everyday materials into something extraordinary. 20 years of experience in product photography combined with a fully equipped studio and his in-house post-production guarantees great results.
Recent works featured in this Showcase magazine include projects done for L'Oréal Paris, Maybelline New York, Pilsner Urquell, Tyskie and others. Visit his website to see more work.
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Bernd Cierpiol
Fashion and People Photographers
Bernd Cierpiol has been working in fashion, people and lifestyle photography for 20 years. The subject of his photography is a human; he is interested in characters, faces and their true expressions. Bernd has always been avoiding fleeting trends and empty beautification in his work, which helped him find his own photography language that is unpretentious but powerful. Total control over the shooting process and production is one of the defining characteristics of his working method. Bernd loves coincidences and surprises but only if they were carefully prepared by him before.
During his career he has worked with many beauty and fashion brands such as OTTO and MOROCCANOIL, model agencies, PR-Agencies and editorials like Vogue Italia and Die Welt. Bernd's portfolio also boasts works in landscape and industrial photography.
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AD.LIPS production network
Photo and Film production
AD.LIPS is a global production network and representation agency for photographers and filmmakers. The company's identity is networking: it's not just about gathering different talents for a specific assignement, it's about creating a collective genius, gathering knowledge, skills, creativity, expertise from all over the globe to work faster, leaner and create outstanding, authentic results. Their clients highly appreciate the hearty, service-oriented attitude typical for the Ruhr area of Germany mixed with a creative and international approach.
The agency currently works with photographers and filmmakers from Los Angeles, New York, Barcelona, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bristol, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and various Ruhr area locations, and is open for collaboration in German, English, Danish and Swedish.
You can see their work in our Showcase magazine and check the latest news of the agency on their Instagram, Facebook and Twitter profiles.
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[zerone] group
Photo Post Production and CGI
Serving the creative industry for almost 20 years, [zerone] is known as one of the leading creative photo retouching and CGI studios worldwide. With offices in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Berlin their one-of-a-kind team of talented 2D and 3D artists has earned an outstanding reputation.
Just recently [zerone] has introduced [zerone] Personal, a project focusing on Fine Art and personal portfolio work.
This Showcase is featuring some of the latest works of the studio such as two series of images featuring the new M4 and the current BMW DTM race cars, the new Renault Clio campaign supervised by the Prodigious brand logistics™(France), shot by Steffen Jahn and visualized by [zerone], and a very personal campaign for Marco Reus, where [zerone] took care of retouching and final colors and style of the footage photographed by Stefan Grey.