Karo Akpokiere is an artist/designer based between Hamburg, Germany and Lagos, Nigeria. He creates bold drawings using traditional and/or digital means. Moving effortlessly between self-initiated and commissioned projects, his work is reflective of his interests in pattern design, graphic design, lettering, and storytelling.   

Karo Akpokiere regularly exhibits his drawings around the world and has worked on commissioned projects for Nike Europe, Google San Francisco and more.

Ghp Photo & Production is an established full-service production company. Hamburg and Miami based, with worldwide contacts via a successful network of professional partners.

''As content producers, we have been bringing print and video campaigns to life for over 15 years.

Our goal is to provide the best production service available, including location scouting, art buying, production management, model castings, research permits and budgeting.''

Gabo's inimitable style is life-affirming, expressive, humorous and always close. She takes pictures of all kinds of humans, including famous international characters from politics, sports, music, film and television.

Most important for Gabo is transporting soul and truth in her pictures. Gabo also loves to work as a film and video director, mixing pictures with speech and music.

Her latest project was a portrait shooting of Barbara Schoeneberger for Barbara Magazine. When these two power women met on set, there was a lot of laughing, dreaming, eating and everything sparkled. It was all about jewellery, beauty, food and a portrait of a woman who couldn't be stopped! Even at five degrees in the freezing cold outside, Barbara went into the water at Lake Studios without batting an eyelid.

Guido Gravelius has worked as a professional food stylist since 2005. As a experienced chef he brings with him a wealth of  knowledge and skills that are fundemental for food styling.

His creativity and above all his love and respect for food always leads to great results. Guido also owns a big collection of props and backdrops, which is another passion beside food styling.

Guido is based in Munich, Frankfurt and Zürich but he is happy to travel for work. He's available for advertising, packaging, editorial and video/ commercials.

His clients include: Electrolux, Mövenpick, Bonduell, Bedford, Lufthansa, Bosch, Lidl, Nestlé, Edeka, Unilever, Vion Food Group, Subway, Bell, Emmi, Appenzeller, Gruner & Jahr, Savencia Fromage & Dairy, Ikea, Coop, and Migros.

After almost 3.000km of scouting on the North and Baltic Sea coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, GLOBOPRODUCTIONS was once again responsible for the logistics and production of the summer 'tequipment' shooting for the client Porsche AG.

Again, two trucks with six sports vehicles had to be coordinated and the corresponding models had to be brought to the selected locations. The shooting took place last summer; the responsible photographer was Stephan Romer under the creative direction of the agency KEKO GmbH from Frankfurt. For film and side shots were zvei_studios and Andi Koslowski.

Another project for Porsche AG was a road trip with the Taycan through Andalusia at the end of 2019 under the auspices of the agency United Digital Group (UDG) Ludwigsburg GmbH. Within only two weeks, route suggestions were developed and a scouting was carried out to produce directly afterwards in the middle of November in southern Spain.

Accompanying photographer was André Josselin from Cologne, protagonist of the car trip was the Instagram 'Influencer' and photographer Lennart Pagel. Andalusia's inland was particularly challenging in terms of logistics, as the entire road trip was to take place under real conditions. But everything worked out as planned and the crew arrived at their destination Seville happy and with great photos.

With over 20 years of professional experience in production, casting and location services, bigshrimp is known to be firm as a rock when it comes to both big and small photo productions. 

"With offices in Hamburg and Berlin, we realise fashion editorials as well as advertising campaigns and TV spots all over Germany and beyond.

On set, everybody enjoys our full attention and will be perfectly cared for. In the past years we've worked hard on being as climate friendly and sustainable as possible.

With over 1.000 locations in northern Germany, Hamburg and Berlin and about 1.500 models in Germany, Austria and Switzerland bigshrimp is fit to support almost every project."

Is Latin America on your 2020 wish list of production locations? If not, it ought to be! No matter the brief, South America has a location perfectly suited. Just ask the team at 7 Seas who have three key production sites in the region plus over 20 years' experience. 

Come to Cuba for the architecture, colourful streets and white-sand beaches - just like the big influencers did in 2019 for their digital content needs. 

And Colombia has truly embraced its past while showing its intentions for a more cosmopolitan future, enticing tourists and productions alike. If you need grand interiors and marvelous sea-front casas, Cartagena is the ticket. 

While the volume of productions coming to Argentina has had a dramatic spike recently, thanks to the European likeness of Buenos Aires, access to top local models and diverse landscapes that stretch 5000km from North to South. 

For professionalism, reliability and a team that goes the extra mile, 7 Seas has you covered.  

Do as Zimmermann, Bloomingdale’s, Hermès and GQ have all done; come to Latin America with 7 Seas!

German-based photographer Heiner Müller-Elsner works for national and international corporate, industrial and science companies. He loves to look into all aspects of the client’s needs.

Heiner knows it is passion that makes the difference. The perfect picture needs more than to be at the right place at the right time.

As well as photographing with different drone-systems, his corporate, industrial and editorial clients favour the variety of possibilities and indoor/ outdoor perspectives that are available.

This year his assignments took him to remote areas as well as to highly developed locations on three continents, but he loves living in Hamburg with his family.

Marius captures moments naturally and authentically, to create an intense closeness between the subject and viewer.

Marius travelled to California to create some impressions for a US travel magazine. All of these shots where done with a Leica Q and a Leica SL, as a part of a collaboration with Leica Camera Wetzlar in Germany.

He also went to the Dolomites to catch the very early light in the morning. “The silence and the impressive mountains are an inspiring ambience.”

Welcome to Showcase Germany, brought to you by Production Paradise. This edition features some of Germany's leading talent and services for commercial photo and film production.

Companies and publications such as McDonald's, Shell, Youtube, Nike, VW, Dolce & Gabbana, Kaltblut Magazine, Replay, Kia, Glamour, Deichmann, L’ Officiel, Chevrolet, Playboy, Huf Magazine and many more, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Berlin (Photo / Film), Cologne (Photo / Film), Dusseldorf (Photo / Film), Frankfurt (Photo / Film), Hamburg (Photo / Film), Munich (Photo / Film) and Stuttgart (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• PAOLO PELLEGRIN – UN’ANTOLOGIA sheds new light on his creative vision. At its core is Paolo Pellegrin’s reportage photography, drawn from his personal archive and featuring work created throughout his career from the early 1990s to the present day. However, this is not a conventional retrospective. Until 20th March 2020 at at the House of Photography, Hamburg.
• Love, Ren Hang. Exhibition features analog photographs using a playful, humorous visual language to relate the feelings, desires, fears, and loneliness of a young generation in China. From 7th December to 20th january 2020 at C/O Berlin Foundation, Amerika Haus. 

Our cover was shot by Sarah Dulay.