Stephanie Trenz's desire to create natural and engaging images allows her to capture the essence of people and their situations. A photographer for over 20 years, she has both experience and a clear focus for people photography.

Covering all aspects of a shoot, Stephanie is the energetic and enthusiastic boost many people need to open up and express themselves in front of the camera. With her professional attitude she creates striking images of people, within an efficient time frame.

Recent work included a project for major German insurance company Württembergische Versicherung, featured in this Showcase.

Her client list includes Willems Eyewear, N-ergie, Bausparkasse Wüstenrot, Daimler AG, Porsche, ElringKlinger, Groninger, Klafs, Schwaebisch-Hall, Gasversorgung Süddeutschland, Voith and many more.

Stephanie's full portfolio can be viewed on her website.

Moodwillig is a full service photo and film production agency based in Frankfurt am Main. Located in the centre of town, the company offers a wide range of production expertise, including:

• Pre-production (art buying, location scouting, casting, model booking).
• Project planning (coordination, travel and hotel arrangements).
• Consulting, crew booking (photographers, assistants, hair/make-up artists, styling).
• Accounting (cost control, clearing, permits and insurance).
• International productions (worldwide).

Moodwillig focusses on advertising productions and works mostly for small and medium-sized clients and agencies. With more than 10 years of experience, the company sets high standards all along the production process, providing solutions for any sized budget through excellent teamwork.

Clients include Continental, Sparkasse girogo, RMV, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, Franke Kitchen Systems, Suzuki International Europe GmbH, European Fund for Southeast Europe, Spielbank Bad Homburg, Deutsche Messe, CSL Behring, Hessen Trade & Invest, Brother Sewing Machines and many more.

Platzverweis is a Berlin and Stuttgart-based location and production company, working nationally and internationally to ensure clients' productions on location run perfectly.

The company continuously works on its wide range of high class, special locations including stylish private homes, cool public spaces, and scenic landscapes for still and moving productions.

Platzverweis' latest work includes location scouting as well as location arrangements and service production for Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Porsche, Bosch, MeisterWerke, Media Markt, Breuninger, ELLE UK and many more.

Latetest productions at SKYLOFTSTUDIO and featured in this Showcase include:

• Lufthansa conference.
• Exclusive Dior press release event for presenting the new 'Addict' lipstick. Client: Christian Dior Parfums. Catering: Käfer Feinkost. Photo: Lutz Duerichen.
• Wöhrl Sinn Leffers kids fashion shoot 'Back to School'. Client: Wöhrl. Photoprapher: Sabine Duerichen ℅ Kristina Korb GmbH. Agency: 19:13 Werbeagentur / Veronika Wager, Kathrin Königsberger. Hair and make-up: Jasmin Friess ℅ Agentur Rouge. Styling: Heike Lohse.
• Burda Style live challenge. Photo people: G.Nitschke/Brauer Photos. Photo location: Sabine Duerichen. Client: Burda Style.
• Wolford video and photo shooting.

bigshrimp is the ideal partner to deliver the highest standard of professional production services. With nearly 20 years of experience, clients benefit from bigshrimp's location and talents databases as well as its excellent network.

Working with bigshrimp combines satisfaction, reliability and smooth running from beginning to end.

bigshrimp operates out of Hamburg and Berlin and provides full photo production services, location assistance and management (including a large in-house location database with numerous locations across northern Germany, primarily Berlin and Hamburg), model booking (a large internal talent pool includes over 1,500 talents of all types, faces, pros, seniors, principals and extras), photo and video casting, budget management, and crew coordination.

Recent projects include BIPA with Wolfgang Zac ℅ SeeYa Fotoproduktion, Sony with Nadav Kander and DDB Berlin, fressnapf with Sven Görlich ℅ Marion Eckhardt photographers, and TAKKO with Marina Kloess and agency Aimaq von Lobenstein.

Christian Siebold is a Munich-based photographer with a degree in photo design. He works for clients worldwide that include TV stations, magazines, agencies, traditional companies and fashion brands like Tatler, Rena Lange, Getty Images, Kneipp, Sat1 TV, BETC, Scholz & Friends, Eterna Fashion, and many more.

He is an experienced professional specialized in high-quality photography. He manages the entire creative post-production cycle of all his images by himself to achieve the unique look of his images, including compositing work, if reqired.

Visit Christian´s website for more information.

Petra Wiebe is a Munich-based freelance stylist, fashion editor and art director. Working with international photographers, clients, fashion magazines and top-models, Petra organises photo productions, styling, art buying, model booking, location scouting, travel and hotel reservations. She is a competent, experienced and reliable business partner whose clients continually trust her with their brands, allowing her the space for creativity and fresh ideas.

A sucessful combination of concept, planning, styling and production went into Petra's latest editorials and advertising work on location in Iceland, Morocco, Sylt, Paris and Brazil. The stories she produced were featured in Harper’s Bazaar CZ, Elle Bulgaria, Vogue Mexico, Venice Mag Miami and Superior Magazine.

In Germany, she worked as a production editor for OZ Verlag, Equistyle, Gala and Line International. She did production and styling in Iceland for catalogue Madeleine, while for Rich and Royal she planned styled and organised the entire campaign and a travel guide in Marocco.

She also worked as a stylist for Sinn Leffers, Madeleine, PKZ, Jelmoli and recently returned from a sucessful production in Brazil for different clients.

Visit Petra's websites for more information.

Delight Rental Services (DRS) provides maximum support for professional photographers and their productions. The company offers the full range of equipment including camera and lighting gear, production vehicles and platforms, computers and steamers. At DRS clients will find everything they need to ensure a successful, professional shoot.

DRS branches can be found in Berlin, Stuttgart, Marbella and Zurich but the company provides equipment worldwide.

Latest arrivals complete the ARRI HMI offer from 575W to 9kW, and tungsten up to 12kW.

Global campaign photographer and director Tim Müller is based in Berlin, New York and Cape Town. In his authentic lifestyle and people shoots he is passionate about the perfect moment, capturing professional talents as well as real people in the most genuine way for his worldwide campaigns and impressive image libraries for global brands.

Lürzer’s Archive has selected Tim three times to be one of the 'Best 200 AD Photographers Worldwide' - 2012/13, 2014/15 and again for 2016/17.

Tim has worked for a range of international clients, from advertising to TV commercials, including Adidas, BASF, Beiersdorf, Unilever, Lilly, Barclay's, Nestlé, P&G, McDonald's, Nescafé, Volkswagen, Qualcomm, Shire, Zeiss and many more.

Visit Tim's recently updated website to view his portfolio and also his new film projects.

Welcome to Showcase Germany. This edition features some of the top photographers, like Dirk Bruniecki, Frank Seifert, Sebastian Brüll, Frank Soberay, Jessica Alice Hath, Vlado Golub, Nabiha Dahhan; photographer and film maker duo feinkorn phtoto+ film, photo and film production service company Agentur Kaczmarek, post production company die bildproduktion, film production company MOTIONCTRL, animation production company Fiftyeight Animation, hair and makeup artists agency Nina Klein Agency, equipment rentals TeamVan and FGV, rental studio TMT, and casting agency Castin People & Profi Agency.

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

Companies as  Mercedes-Benz,GQ, Samsung, s.Oliver, Harper's Bazaar, VW, Quality Magazine, Telekom, Citroën, Hoffmann & Campe, Porsche Design, Zeit Magazin, among others, trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editioar shoots.

Be sure you don't miss our recommended events:

• Sarah Moon: Now and Then - retrospective exhibition of Sarah Moon's photographs and films, until 21th February 2016 at the House of Photography, Hamburg. 
• Sebastião Salgado. Genesis - photography exhibition, until 24th January 2016, at Kunstfoyer, Munich. 
• Streamlines: Oceans, Global Trade And Migration - photography exhibition, until 13th April 2016, at the Hall of Contemporay Art, Hamburg.

Our cover image was shot by Heli Hinkel.