MAD LIONS ARTISTS see themselves as a united force of talents, always on the prowl for fresh, innovative projects and greater challenges. They are the team to hire when clients wish to highlight their concept, campaign, or product, no matter how minimalistic or extensive it may be.

Being a group of young artists, they can offer a fresh and innovative package to clients including fashion styling, creative direction, and hair and make-up artists for productions worldwide.

Emilia Teresa and Mike York, both based in Vienna, created Mad Lions to combine their strengths. At the end of 2015, they expanded and created the MAD LIONS ARTISTS, adding hair and make up professionals to the roster.

The team now offers a wider range of services working to the same high standards as their clients, which include Schön! Magazine, Look Magazine, Love FMD, MaG, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and many more.

Gathering years of experience from organising productions and international management for directors and directors of photography, Karin Zumann founded her own agency in Vienna.

With a hand-picked selection of photographers Karin Zumann Photographers Agency (formely Karin Amcher Photographers Agency) supervises productions for national and international clients and provides an all-around package including budgeting, booking, casting, location, shoot production and post-production.

Vienna: Gregor Hofbauer, Astrid Schwab, Dieter Steinbach, Robert Szutta.
Munich: David Beger.

Brand new on the market, and already in high demand, Dieter Steinbach's 'Pic & Clip' delivers short movies that grab the spirit and the message of a picture - as well as the picture itself. Recorded during photo shoots, his films create emotions that can be used by clients in numerous ways.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers currently working out of Austria, including Christian Vorhofer, Dieter Brasch, Friedrich Jansenberger, Lukas Kirchgasser, Mitja Kobal, Mona Lorenz, Oliver Topf, PG Studios, Studio Huger and Ronnie Boehm; photo agent Karin Zumann Photographers Agency; illustrators agent carolineseidler.com; illustrator Denis Mujakovic; photo production company and talent agent Making Of; styling, hair and make-up agent MAD LIONS ARTISTS and equipment rental company DIGITALSTORE. 

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Austrian Airlines, Marie Claire, Greenpeace, McDonald's, Schön! Magazine, Volksbank, Seitenblicke Magazine, Nadine, Austrias Next Topmodel and Raiffeisen Bank among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• Nobuyoshi Araki/Love by Leica - photography exhibition, from 27th May to 3rd September at Leica Galerie, Vienna. 
• Anniversary Panorama of Photographic History and World Events - exhibition from 30th May to 10th June and auction on 10th June, at Westlicht, Vienna.
• VIFF 2016 - Vienna Independent Film Festival - from 4th to 7th July. 

Our cover image was shot by Luise Hannah Reichert. 

Dieter Brasch started his career as a freelance photographer in 1996. He is passionate about photography, most of all still life photography, and the scope of his work ranges from elaborate high-end advertising shots to editorials.

In his work, Dieter likes to personally attend to every detail, from photo composition and styling to lighting and camera equipment, including careful image processing. Throughout the more than two decades that he has been working in photography, and among all the different challenges presented by each job, the way photographs are created has always remained the most fascinating aspect for him.

In 2007 Dieter enrolled in the Danube University of Krems, Department for Image Science for a postgraduate programme, which he completed by taking a Master of Arts degree in November 2010.

In 2012 he opened a photo studio in the Bräuhausgasse, 1050 Vienna.

Mitja Kobal is a professional photographer based in Vienna, Austria.

Mitja primarily works across portrait, advertising, industrial, corporate and architectural photography. He was recently out of town for over three months on recent international assignments, sweating in the Arctics, southern Europe and all over Japan for commissioned work with NGO's, corporations and model agencies.

Mitja is patient, pragmatic and adventurous photographer. He is versatile in different styles and techniques that have gotten him recognized and commissioned by Greenpeace.

With over 25 years of exerpience in Vienna, the multiple international award winning photographer Friedrich Jansenberger specialises in stills and product photography.

His desire for the perfect picture is the engine of his passion: the dogmatic reduction to the essentials for maximum effect - that is his credo.

His standards are high: he does the concepts, designs, builds, put light, color and contrast or changes the brightness with delicate nuances, until he can say: "Yes, that's it!".

So it may happen that the yield of a full working day is just one photo. However, Frederick's "models" have a distinct advantage: they do not need to rest, they don´t lose focus and also keep quiet on command.

Clients include: Eduscho/Tchibo, Kraft Foods, Julius Meinl, Campari Austria, AfriCola, Philips, Samsung, Diageo, Ottakringer Bier, Zwettler Bier, Wiesbauer Gourmet, Billa / Penny Markt, and Nah & Frisch.

"Ronnie's work is wonderful. Himself, I found sharp, passionate and full of humour!" Henry Leutwyler.

Ronnie Boehm is a freelance photographer operating between Vienna/Austria and Warsaw/Poland. Originally specialised in ballet photography, he has worked internationally with dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Royal Ballet London and Australian Ballet. In recent years, he has been applying his perfectionism and signature to-the-point look to advertising, portrait and even food and interior projects.

Clients include City of Vienna, Orange Mobile France, Macfadden Media, Puls4, Best Western Premier and HNO22.

The Cape Town Office offers bespoke film and photo production service to the international market. Proudly run by Ila Nazar and Hanna Bjoerklund, Production Pool Cape Town offers unique and personal service, starting from the first e-mail to the last goodbye at the airport. Both Hanna and Ila have many years of experience in production and advertising worldwide and have a special soft spot for Cape Town and its beauty.

Production Pool Cape Town focuses on stills advertising and fashion clients, however is no stranger to the TV and documentary world, having facilitated various shoots and a full season of Sweden’s Next Top Model amongst others.

Recent productions include: Volvo, About You, Otto, and Ing Diba.

Welcome to the latest Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. In this issue we feature the latest campaigns for BBC, Red Bull, Samsung, ING DiBa, Accor Hotels, Greenpeace, Dr. Oetker Österreich, Stadt Wien, Goessl, Casinos Austria, Campari, Globetrotter Travel Guide, HBD, and many more.

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film productions in our Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• blickfang Vienna - International Design Exhibition, from 30th October to 1st November at the MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst.
• Cora Pongracz - Austrian Avantgarde of the 1970s, until 21st November at OstLicht Galerie für Fotografie.
• Destination Vienna 2015, an exhibition featuring over 70 works of contemporary art, until 31st May. 

Our cover image entitled 'The Burden', was shot by Kurt Salhofer.

digitalkameraverleih provides photographers in Vienna with gear they need for successful productions. The rental equipment ranges from compact retro design Olympus OM-D cameras all the way to top-of-the-line medium format cameras from Pentax and Hasselblad.

Among the latest additions are high resolution cameras from Canon, the EOS 5D S and 5D SR, both of which offer 50 megapixels on a 35mm full frame sensor. Under perfect conditions they can even rival the quality of medium format cameras.

The lens line-up has also been rounded off across the board with the Olympus 8mm f/1.8 PRO Fisheye for Micro Four Thirds and the super-tele 400mm f/2.8 VR for Nikon.