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February 21, 2012

City Beach Life fashion shooting

A summer fashion shooting at the urban beaches of Barcelona: In Spain, even in winter the sun offers summerly looks. So we did a summer campaign for the Catalan streetwear label SPRT last week. Cool urban styles were mixed with old school California surf and contemporary skate flavor.

Model Pol in the “post surf” situation, getting help by my charming hair & make up artist Ana Vergara:

Our spot for a “bicycle trip” attracted some sun-hungry natives: 

 

photographer in camouflage pants (photo taken by Gregor Koall)

 

My “special assistant” Gregor Koall – thanks for the help!!:

View from our shooting location towards Barcelona: skyline with Hotel W and the cable car tower: 

 

 Model Pol, having the very last coffee with sunshine of the day: 

 

Icecream and urban paintings in Barceloneta:

February 13, 2012

The cactus garden – menswear shooting in Barcelona

On Barcelona’s famous city hill Montjuic you can find the fantastic “Cactus Garden”. For Grisby‘s classic suit line, we occupied this beautiful location and shot the summer lookbook. The giant cactuses and bizarre palm trees gave an interesting contrast to the fine menswear fashion. 

Model Marc got a nice sun tan during the session…

 

…as well as our charming hair & make up artist Ana Vergara – here pimping up Marc while getting filmed by Bernat for the making-of video:

  

While Marc got into the next outfit… 

… I benefitted from the break by taking some nice nature photos:

 

 

 

February 6, 2012

7Yards lookbook shooting in Barcelona

After three weeks of fashion trade shows in Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid, I finally came back to actually shoot fashion: This sunday I did the lookbook for Barcelona’s progressive but minimalist menswear brand 7 Yards (by Grisby) up in the Montjuic. Now, lots of selecting and post-production ahead…

Our lovely hair & make up artist Ana Vergara doing model Adrian’s hair: 


Designer Toni Torrens, here helping me out as a light double:

Me, doing making of photos of myself :) :

 

A first glance on the oeuvre: 

 

 

 

January 30, 2012

Ivy press shooting

Last week, we did the official press photos for Ivy Quainoo, a singer from Berlin, who takes part in Germany’s leading music casting show “The Voice of Germany”. With the help of Z Locations we found an exclusive location in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and shot a story on Ivy taking a milk bath. Thanks to the team: Felicitas Onnen from www.foolproofed.de,  Anna Röhrig  , responsible for styling , Christa Raqué  , doing hair & make up, and my charming assistant Teresa! 

German’s leading tabloid paper Bild published it instantly: 

 

 

 

 

January 24, 2012

Voice of Germany – press kit for Benny Fiedler

In the last weeks I shot a couple of shootings for Germany’s leading music casting show “Voice of Germany”.
It’s TV channel Pro7 needed proper press photos of the young talents. 
Here are some photos from a shooting with Benny Fiedler in his Berlin barrio Schöneberg:

 

January 23, 2012

A photo reportage on Braun for Beauty Inc magazine

Beauty Inc. Magazine, a Condé Nast publication, sent me to the Braun headquarters in Kronberg near Frankfurt. Together with European beauty editor Jennifer Weil I did an industry reportage on the product design department and quality control laboratories. 

Here you get an idea of how sound design (of a hair drier) is evaluated: the highly isolated sound recording booth

hair drier, quality, laboratory, Procter & Gamble

Electric razors in a long-term performance test: The quality laboratories

shavers, test, long-term

January 16, 2012

Berlin’s new fashion talents

Right on time to start into the Fashion Week, here are some brand new portraits of Berlin’s up and coming fashion designers. They are all based in the German capital and they just got started with their career.  The series was a shot for Women’s Wear Daily

Nicole Roscher, owner and designer of Von Bardonitz:

 

 

Von Bardonitz

Eleonore Von Schwanenflügel & Stephanie Pupke, forming the label VONSCHWANENFLÜGELPUPKE 

 

Katharina Wulf, head of design at Liebeskind:

 

 

Dietrich Emter:

 

 

the duo Achtland:

 

 

January 10, 2012

WWD cover shot with Berlin bridges

Today Women’s Wear Daily, the fashion “bible” in the US, published its Berlin special edition. For the WWD cover I did a series on Berlin bridges in December 2011: 

bridges

WWD publishes its Berlin Preview every six month for the Berlin Fashion Week. Here are some more photos of the bridge series:

Anhalter Steg over Landwehrkanal in Berlin Kreuzberg:

 

 

Railway-bridge over river Spree at station Friedrichstraße – with ICE passing:

 

 

Railway-bridge over river Spree. This is the bridge where Matt Damon jumps on a river boat in Bourne Supremacy:

 

 

Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Brücke - bridge over river Spree between parliament office buildings Paul-Löbe-Haus and Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus

January 5, 2012

fashion portfolio in the print

This morning I visited Gallery Print to oversee the beginning of the printing of my fashion portfolio: Boris Brumnjak designed a fine folder with a selection of my fashion shots. Gallery Print prints this piece with its brand new Heidelberg machine. The portfolio gives a nice overview over my cooperation with various fashion designers, stylists and magazines. Lots of thanks to all those plus the models, hair & make up artists, assistants, art directors, caterers and interns who worked with me in these style shootings!!!

 

December 21, 2011

new business cards

Hi folks, 
right before christmas my new business cards get out of the printing machine. Special thanks to Sandra Fehr & Boris Brumnjak!!! Here are some first glances:

(shot for Mohr models) 

 

(market worker in Santiago de Chile)

 

(for my dear graphic fans)