Adi Mayer was founded in Vienna in 1923. The company produces and services a wide range of media including photo, commercials, feature films, documentaries, viral shorts and animations.

Building custom fit solutions for every new production, Adi Mayer applies its unique expertise and strong sense for quality images. Carefully selecting its partners and then putting its heart and soul into every project, the company always tries to bring together people who will complement and inspire each other.

Adi Mayer is constantly open to new ideas and new directors, photographers and VFX animators. The team loves being part of a tailor-made network operating from Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Bratislava, Istanbul, Vienna and Los Angeles.

Peter Burgstaller is a Vienna-based photographer who works worldwide. Besides his landscape work for the global Austrian Tourism campaign, he still finds time to travel the world to expand his unique CGI backplate archive.

His experience as a car and motorcycle photographer allows him to create outstanding high-end backgrounds from around the world. Featured in this Spotlight is the first sample from three CGI images he created together with recom, one of the leading post-production and CGI companies.

Clients include BMW Motorcycles, Porsche, Volkswagen, Telekom, Austrian Tourism and Unicredit Leasing.

In 1980, Oliver Topf was born in Vienna. After studying interior design, he followed his passion for photography. In 2001, he began assisting international photographers including Mario Schmolka, Oliver Gast, Gerhard Merzeder and Marcel Gonzalez Ortiz. During this period, he worked globally for clients including Vogue Germany, GQ, Triumph Lingerie, Swarovski, and Red Bull.

In 2007, Oliver started his solo career. His pictures have been published in magazines including Salon, Elle Germany, Madame, GQ, Playboy, Peng!, Wien Live, Active Beauty, News Exklusiv, Wiener, TV Media, Woman, Presse Schaufenster and a lot more. His commercial clients include Bonhams, Salzburger Festspiele, Servus TV, Bank Austria, A1 Mobilkom, Mondi Group, Gössl Trachten, Allude, Philoro, Skapa Recycling, Österreichisches Verkehrsbüro AG, Arbeiter SamariterBund, Pfizer, L'Oréal and Universal Music.

Oliver loves to find and capture the beauty of a moment or a person. He currently lives and works in Vienna. Visit his website or Facebook to see more of his work.

Production Pool is a full service production company specialised in film and photo production. With bases in Zurich, Vienna, Berlin, Cape Town and the Alps, Production Pool offers a great range of production service options and locations.

The company recently provided services for TV commercial productions for clients including VW (Switzerland), OMV VIVA (Austria), USB (Switzerland), and FIYTA (Zurich), among others. Recent photo productions include print campaigns for Calida, T-Mobile, Lab Pal Zilleri, MTV Sunrise, Madewell and an editorial shoot for Marie Claire USA.

Other clients include BMW, Bogner, Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Elle, H&M, Heineken, IWC, Joop, Migros, Orange, S.Oliver, Swisscom and Vogue.

Production Pool has worked with photographers and directors such as Boo George, Fabian Weber, Frederike Helwig, Gregor Hohenberg, Marcel Hartmann, Mariano Vivanco, Mario Testino, Matt Jones, Mikael Jansson, Sam Robinson, and Tom Dirnhofer.

Visit the website for more information.

digitalkameraverleih has added some exciting new products to its rental catalogue.

First there is the revolutionary Profoto B1 off-camera flash which increases the photographer's possibilities on set by offering cable-free operation and TTL metering.

Most recently, Elinchrom has given their monolights a major update and they are already available at digitalkameraverleih. The new ELC Pro HD units with power ratings of 500 and 1000 Ws combine best-in-class performance with attractive pricing.

Also new, although only available second hand, are the 75mm and 135mm leaf shutter lenses for the Pentax 645 system. These manual focus lenses are fully compatible with the Pentax 645D and the upcoming 645Z and they enable short flash sync times of 1/500 s.

The proPsolution TSE Adapter allows parallax-free shifting with Canon TS-E 17mm and 24mm lenses to create flat stitch panoramic images. It is produced to the highest standards (Made in Germany) and digitalkameraverleih has it for hire and for sale.

Welcome to the latest Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. In this issue you can find the latest campaigns for Louis Vuitton, McDonald's, BMW, Red Bull, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and many more.

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

Check out our featured events:

• Araki Taller Taller Araki - Nobuyoshi Araki & Juergen Teller in an artist dialogue, until 25th May, in Galerie Ostlicht
• Andreas H. Bitesnich. 25 Years of Photography, until 9th June, in Kunst Haus Wien
• Vienna Photobook Festival, from 14th to 16th June.
• Once in the Garden - David LaChapelle Photography exhibition, from 2nd June to 14th September, in Galerie Ostlicht

Our cover image was shot by Katarina Balgavy.

Wagner Productions provides production services for photography and moving image shoots. The company works on shoots in Austria, the Alpine Region, and also throughout Europe, as well as overseas. Wagner Productions is equally comfortable shooting in Alpine environments, snow-bound locations, remote landscapes or urban settings.

Productions include shoots with photographers such as Heckl&Mennemann, Christian Schmidt, Martijn Oort, Emir Haveric, Erik Chmil, Frithjof Ohm, Josh Olins, Stephane Sednaoui, Julia Baier, Sandra Semburg.

Visit the website for more information.

Peter Mathis is an Austrian photographer with more than 25 years of experience in outdoor and sports photography. He knows how to create strong photographs that tell stories, working quickly and intuitively with fine results, even when time is limited.

Peter has international experience working for agencies and editorial magazines, both on location and in the studio. His work has appeared in numerous magazines as well as corporate publications around the globe. In 2007 he was awarded as a Hasselblad Master.

Peter is currently seeking representation in Europe and the US.

Visit his website to see more of his work.

Stephan Huger, born and living in Vienna, is an international multi award-winning photographer specialising in architectural photography. He is acknowledged as Europe‘s foremost architectural photographer, and is one of the few 'Qualified European Photographers of Architectural Photography' - a distinction conferred on him by the Federation of European Photographer’s in 2008.

Stephan's architectural pictures reflect the ambitions and achievements of the architects, but in a way that viewers can also recognise the pronounced hand of a photo artist. Stephan believes that this is what makes 'the art' of architectural photography, that the authors of both the given subject and the way it has been represented are equally identifiable.

Winfried Flohner  follows his natural instinct to catch the right picture at the right moment. Beyond this he resorts to his gift of perfect organisation and his wide photographic knowledge.

With a passion for detail, Winfried focuses on advertising, food and people photography. His pictures are full of emotion, diversity or straightforwardness - according to whatever is needed for telling the story of the product or character.

He works for clients including Haribo and C+C Pfeiffer.