bigshrimp is a full service photo production company based in Hamburg and Berlin, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

The company takes pride in supporting clients all over the country with its expertise in casting, scouting and on-set support.

This year has so far been a busy one, with many wonderful shoots for clients such as Vorwerk, Deutsche Bahn, Jack and Jones and Mercedes-Benz, to name just a few.

Additionally, bigshrimp has expanded its own talent database with lots of great new faces and has added stunning locations to its portfolio.

Berlin-based Claas Cropp Creative Productions is a full service production company with experience across all areas of still photo production, location scouting, casting and moving images.

Recent productions include:

• Audi catalogue shot by Jürgen Berderow in Hamburg (Philipp & Keuntje).
• Deutsche Bank brochure shot by Lars Borges in Germany and Spain (Philipp & Keuntje).
• Miles & More campaign shot by Ina Schoof in Portugal (Serviceplan).
• Cinemascopes personal work by Marc Trautmann in Berlin.
• Dr Hauschka medical campaign shot by Oliver Helbig in Berlin (in-house).
• Orsay campaign shot by Felix Krüger in Munich (FS Kommunikation).
• Breuninger advertorial shot by Michel Comte in Berlin (in-house).

Other clients include brands such as Louis Vuitton, Brioni, Lacoste, Nike, Adidas, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Siemens, BMW, Audi, VW, Mercedes-Benz and Lufthansa.

Photographers include Annie Leibovitz, Michel Comte, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Ellen von Unwerth, Nadav Kander, Martin Schoeller, Phil Poynter and many more.

Beata Isabella Nitzke is a Polish-born, Stuttgart-based freelance fashion stylist, fashion editor and creative director. She lives in Stuttgart, Warsaw and Ibiza.

Her fashion portfolio includes work for magazines such as Kaltblut, Jute, Solstice, Fault, Lucy’s, Elegant and many more. Beata also works for lookbooks, advertising, a range of different catalogues from high fashion Lagerhaus to sport fashion SPORT 2000, and commercial clients including Mercedes, Siemens, Bosch, Kärcher and Sparda Bank.

Beata loves to work in both women’s and men’s fashion. She creates moments in which absolute perfection and impeccable taste are preserved for eternity in one photograph. Focusing on the particular wishes of each client, she puts her entire passion into her work, and her good humour is always present. She speaks German, Polish and English.

For Beata, "good styling is like a gentle, radiant smile. It is never too imposing and yet can be seen by everyone; it never says too much and yet you know the whole story."

Check out Beata's latest news and more information on her website, Instagram and Facebook.

"It was a pleasure to create scenery for jewellery and fashion editorials with extraordinary models and styling. Working with Broncolor flashlight equipment, we are able to combine natural sunlight and flashlight in order to have full contrast control at any time.“

Sebastian Brüll is a Düsseldorf-based fashion and beauty photographer. Featured in this Showcase is a selection of his latest images from new beauty and fashion editorials for Factice Magazine and iMUTE Magazine, as well as some of his work for brands Grafenberg Schmuck and Margittes.

Visit his website for more information.

H60 Produktion's professional team includes a photographer, producer, digital operator, assistant, cook and set builder. Highly competent, they have over 20 years of experience successfully serving clients.

H60 Produktion started the season with Diesel/Zalando, handling location scouting and permits, cooking, and full service production. The team followed this with a shoot north of Milan for Golfpunk Magazine, before embarking on a 10-day production in Spain for Aldi Nord where they took care of logistics (transport) of all the produce.

H60 can handle pressure, weather chaos - and animals! - as demonstrated with a full service production for Fressnapf that included castings (models and dogs).

New clients in 2018 include Ford, Diesel / Zalando, Aldi Nord, Veedol and Fressnapf.

The H60 studio is always open, so feel free to call in for a coffee.

Founded in Dusseldorf in 1985, Elegant Elephant Studios is one of the biggest photo studios in Germany, located on the premises of a former steel works.

The 2,800 m² space can accomodate film and photo productions for every type of client. From automobile to food, fashion and people photography, spaces range from smaller studios measuring 40 m² or large work spaces measuring more than 500 m².

Elegant Elephant also features professional mask rooms, hair washing sinks and showers, production offices, a workshop for set builders and a large coffee bar. For creative breaks and meetings, the studios have comfortable lounge areas seperate from the set.

Elegant Elephant also provides the appropriate rooms and, if needed, the necessary equipment for shoots as well as corresponding services to support a production with experienced photo assistants.

elbmodels was one of the first in Germany to represent mature models for the film and photography industries, and is now in its eleventh year.

The agency offers the perfect face for everyone, with an emphasis on changing the out-dated image of more mature people in advertising.

elbmodels is based in Hamburg and Munich and is specialised in actors and models between the ages of 30 and 90.

Its roster of over 400 models work for national clients like KfW, Fielmann, Zeiss and Dr. Theiss, as well as international clients including Hapag Lloyd, Lufthansa, Trivago, Sennheiser, Schwarzkopf and Beiersdorf.

For internationally published photographer Frank Rossbach, creativity is a process of teamwork between his delivery and people's imagination. To Frank, photography is passion and the opportunity to tell stories, and thereby a way of influencing people's point of view.

The Cologne-based artist's areas of focus include health, beauty, fashion, people and industrial. His style is reflected in a fascinating multifaceted play of light and combines technical precision with high attention to detail. Frank is specialised in creating emotive, contemporary and intuitive images.

"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”

"Taste can be seen! As a food photographer for over two decades, I have been playing with the senses and have created delicious photographs for prominent clients across the food and advertising industries."

Kai Schwabe's work includes recipe photography and recipe development, food and drink photography, food films and packaging as well as other promotional materials. Together with an experienced team of food stylists and other professionals, Kai is able to combine sophisticated craft with artistic aesthetics and the latest trends.

Located in Bremen, his 470 m² daylight studio can produce images up to 100 megapixels. Thanks to comprehensive artificial and film lighting equipment, the team can place every delicacy in its proper light including high-resolution effects and slow-motion shots. The spacious loft studio also offers room for a generously equipped show kitchen, where food professionals will find everything their heart - and their food - desires!

Check out Kai's latest news and photos on Instagram.