showcase germany issue 387

Jan 2013

Marion Eckhardt Photographers: Hamburg photo agents

Latest news from Marion Eckhardt Photographers:

• Animal specialist Gabor Geissler has just finished a big shoot in Cape Town following on from winter motifs near Munich for Fressnapf animal supplies company.
• Sven Görlich specialises in on-set photography and shot many campaign pictures for Iglo Fishsticks in Athens with agency BBDO Proximity Dusseldorf.
• Kids specialist Kristin Schnell completed personal work with kids and fashion.
• Cologne and Dusseldorf-based Valéry Kloubert shot for Deutsche Telekom AG.
• Nuremberg and Munich-based Olaf Tiedje shot personal work with young urbanites in Berlin.
• Götz Göppert worked for Air France Magazine and had the opportunity to fly to Yukatan to photograph beautiful landscapes in Mexico.
• New York-based photographer Mike Ruiz shot brand new graffiti fashion pictures for Prestige Magazine Hong Kong.
• Bruce Soyez-Bernard, also based in New York, completed beauty shots for Essence Magazine with model Eugenia.
• Dusseldorf-based Dirk Heinrich's recent shots for a book project are also featured in this Showcase.

AprilMay: Berlin full photo production

AprilMay is a full service photo production agency based in Berlin offering art buying, location booking, casting, and all kinds of production services in Germany and abroad.

2012 came to a very busy end, with projects including Maurice Lacroix. Breuninger, Caritas, Damyller Jeans, Anson's, Sat1, Skiny, Charles Vögele, CoverMagazine, Intersport, O2, Karstadt, Swarowski, Quality Magazine, Bold Magazine and Mey & Edlich.

AprilMay also works with photographers such as Anders Overgaard, Tomo Brejc, Tim Petersen, Sven Jacobsen, Oscar Falk, Magnus Rossander, Torsten Ruppert, Felix Krüger, Lado Alexi, Neil Kirk, Per Kasch, Graham Shearer, Sara Wilson, Sacha Höchstetter, Nadia Del Dò, Anna Rosa Krau, Christian Anwander, Gregor Hohenberg, Sandra Weimar, André Reinke, Mario Gomez, Heiko Richard, Fritz Hauswirth, Darius Ramazani, Daniella Midenge, and many more.

LUNIK: Berlin full photo production

Lunik is a full service production company for photography, video and multimedia, covering all areas of production and location scouting, providing whatever is needed to ensure a successful shoot. Operating throughout Europe, the United States, South America, South Africa and Asia, Lunik has a worldwide network that allows the team to realise all kind of requests.

Recent productions include:

• Rammstein 'Mein Herz Brennt’ video shoot with director Zoran Bihac.
• Gregor Collienne’s latest personal work 'Stadt_Splitter’. Representation: Birgit Stöver.
• Ing-DiBa 'Arbeitgeber-Marke’ campaign with Antje Merkel, represented by Upperorange.
• DHL Paket campaign with Murat Aslan, represented by Upfront.

Other clients include brands such as Apple, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Intel, Reebok, Continental, Soundcloud, Ergo and many more.

Sublime Postproduction: Berlin creative post production

Sublime Postproduction combines fine aesthetics with a passion for outstanding photography and attention to detail. The company provides tailor-made professional photography services, focusing particularly on transportation, CGI, motion graphics, beauty and people.

Latest jobs include:

• Audi. Agency: DDB Spain. Photographer: Anke Luckmann.
• Porsche. Photographer: Anke Luckmann.
• VW. Agency: Grabarz & Partner. Photographer: Thomas Strogalski. Post production: Sublime, in collaboration with Elisabeth Winter and fitz.
• REWE 'Genuss' campaign. Agency: Heimat. Photographer: Alexander Straulino.
• Personal work with photographer Manu Agah.

Clients include: Manu Agah, Anke Luckmann, Anatol Kotte, Armin Zogbaum, Conrad Piepenburg, Blinkk, Magnus Winter, Sonja Müller, Det Kempke, Oscar van de Beek, Stefano Morini, Tom Wagner, Tobias Schult, Benno Kraehahn, Thomas Strogalski, Alexander Straulino, Heimat, McCann Erickson, Scholz & Friends, Atletico International, Grey Worldwide, DDB, Grabarz & Partner and Jung von Matt.

Imagerefinery: Hamburg creative post production

Imagerefinery means creative retouching across media boundaries and CGI in all disciplines while reducing production costs and time.

To create new visual worlds the company works with the highest level of technology and artistic expression to produce complex composings, high-end retouching, entire new looks, illustrative digital artwork and complete CGI. Imagerefinery combines the whole scheme of digital tools to generate every kind of style or visualisation according to clients' specific requirements.

Sabine Duerichen c/o Kristina Korb GmbH: Munich children photographers

Sabine Duerichen is specialised in baby, kids and teen photography. 2012 was a busy year for Sabine, working for fashion magazines, advertising campaigns and a range of different designers.

Her latest work includes:

• Ernsting's Family in Munich rental studio SKYLOFTSTUDIO.
• Eltern magazine cover production.
• Conley's fashion production in Croatia. The location was the famous Kvarner Opatija Hotel, the first hotel on the Adriatic coast built in 1884.
• 'Elefanten' advertising campaign for Deichmann shoes.
• 'Teen Spirit' was the slogan for the personal work Sabine shot near a renowned meat packing area in Munich.

Sabine is represented by Expose Photographers Conny Oelker.

Thomas von Salomon: Frankfurt car & transportation photographers

Frankfurt-based photographer Thomas von Salomon recently shot a series of images for the Series One special edition for BMW. Thomas and his team shot in Munich, with post production by Albert Bauer Companies/Munich.

Shirin Ourmutchi: Berlin beauty photographers

Berlin-based Shirin Ourmutchi has worked as a freelance beauty, fashion and people photographer for over nine years.

She shoots editorials for magazines including Freundin, Brigitte and Happinez as well as campaigns for designers and portraits of people inspired by her work.

Shirin's latest project was a 2013 campaign for Israeli shoe label Shanibar.

The art of storytelling is an important element in Shirin's work. She loves to create inspiring environments and is always looking for the magic moment.

Peter Wattendorff: Munster Fashion + Advertsing photographer

For over 15 years, Peter Wattendorff has produced photos for some of the top jewellers and fashion labels across Germany.

Presented in this Showcase is his freelance photo series 'Sleepless' which has already been featured in several art exhibitions, including the upcoming 'Die Große' at the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, starting 24th February.

Sabine Büttner (Moeller): Hamburg people & lifestyle photographers

Sabine Büttner (formerly Moeller) is based in Hamburg and specialises in people, lifestyle, portrait and corporate photography. She works for magazines, agencies, brands and companies.

In her recent corporate work she shot kids indoors and outdoors for Villa Luna in the company's kindergartens in Germany.

She also shot the Bistrot Bardot for the Almodóvar Hotel in Berlin, which opened in 2012.

Marc Oeder: Munich people & lifestyle photographers

Known for his dynamic photography and an ability to communicate atmosphere, soul and emotion, Marc Oeder is able to motivate and focus on the essentials. His functional brilliance combined with long experience complete the picture and allow for high quality results.

Maintaining a studio and base in Munich, Marc mostly works on location. His focus is on people, lifestyle and sports photography for clients including Allgäu, Allianz, Audi Magazine, Commerzbank, Das Örtliche, Deutsche Telekom, Footlocker, Gerolsteiner, Intel, Kaufhof, König Pilsener, Lavazza, Mercedes-Benz Bank, Microsoft, Rodenstock, Salomon-Adidas, Sennheiser, Siemens, Tele 5, WeightWatchers and Wrigley.

Advertising agencies with which he has collaborated include argonauten G2 München, Atletico Berlin, BUTTER Werbeagentur Düsseldorf, F&H Public Relation München, Fischer Appelt München, Havas Worldwide München, Heye München, kl,ondike München, McCann Erickson Düsseldorf, PERGER & BERGER München, Publicis Erlangen, Publicis München, Selby & Co. Hamburg, Serviceplan München and Wächter & Wächter München.

Phil Meinwelt Photography: Berlin advertising photographers

Specialising in advertising, Meinwelt Photography has been in the scene since 2006. Phil Meinwelt, born in 1987, started the company after transforming his hobby into a profession while assisting the Austrian photographer Werner Krug. The company is currently broadening its client base in the international market. Guido Maria Kretschmer is one of his clients.

For more information visit the homepage.
 

bluestudios: Hanover - Hamburg advertising photographers

Exceptional and cutting-edge views, combined with attention to detail and subtle lighting techniques - these ingredients have been the source of bluestudios' success for 20 years.

Experienced photographers Dieter Sieg and Volker Warning complement each other to the advantage of long-term-clients such as Volkswagen, Continental, Sennheiser, KWS, Hewlett Packard, Bosch Rexroth and Akzo Nobel, producing refined visual material for ad and image campaigns, brochures, catalogues, books, calendars and websites.

The in-house CGI and post production department is another mainstay of the company's portfolio.

Visit the bluestudios website to discover its latest work, from advertising and cars to interior and exterior, people and lifestyle, beauty and fashion, as well as food and drink.

Tom Fischer Fotografie: Berlin advertising photographers

As a former art and creative director, Tom Fischer is now completely focused on photography. Following his roots in advertising, he tells visual stories through his editorial and portraiture work.

Clients include Cesar (Mars), BBDO, Boston Consulting Group, Contitech, Kolle Rebbe, Lawinenstift, SPD, SOS Kinderdörfer, Diakonie, and many more.

Visit his website for more information.

Nici Theuerkauf: Berlin props, furnishing, interior stylists

Berlin-based stylist Nici Theuerkauf's recent work included:

• Sebastian Burgold (Kelly Kellerhoff) for IKEA.
• Thomas Popinger for Dornbracht. Agency: meireundmeire.
• Ragnar Schmuck (Nerger M&O) for REWE. Agency: Heimat.
• Armin Zogbaum (Marlene Ohlsson) for Smart Agency: BBDO.
• Rene Hunger for LIVA. Agency: Schirmers.

Visit Nici's website for more information.