BEAUTY & HAIR PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 2016

After graduating as a communication designer, Dirk Bader started his photography career as apprentice to legendary photographer David LaChapelle for nearly three years and then worked with Peter Lindbergh, Albert Watson and Patrick Demarchelier among others.

His work has been published in magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vanity Fair, among others.

His commercial clients include Pantene Pro V, Astor, Artdeco, Misslyn, Ferrari, Gillette and Head & Shoulders.

Felix Rachor is a Berlin-based fashion, beauty, and celebrity photographer, make-up artist and media designer. His photographs are loaded with creativity and original ideas.

Clients also benefit from Felix's post-production skills and excellent contacts. They appreciate his straight forward manner of collaboration and fair quotes.

Felix has a number of years of experience working for big magazines, companies and TV stations, and has seen many of Germany's top stars step in front of his camera.

Clients include JOOP!, Labello, CLR, Ivoclar vivadent, Universal, Sony BMG, Constantin Films, Sony Music, Phase One, Samsung, ELLE, WOMAN, FACE-MAGAZINE, MAXI, Storm, QUALITY and Stern, among others.

Frank P. Wartenberg loves to experiment. Structures, colours, shapes and lights are his approach to capture the human body with his camera. The range of his beauty portfolio goes from clean purity to elaborate make-up and opulent headdresses.

Campaigns for clients like Wella, Goldwell, COTY Inc., Henkel, Schwarzkopf, Gard or Procter & Gamble have been bearing Frank's signature. He has also worked for magazines including Elle, Cocoon, GALA, Madame, Douglas Magazine and Cosmopolitan, to name just a few.

After spending some years in New York City, Frank, daddy to a little daughter, now lives with his family and Golden Retriever Barney back in Hamburg.

Herve Dunoyer is a Paris-based fashion and beauty photographer, known for his strong enhancement of women’s feminity and modern but timeless style across a mix of ideas and techniques.

Herve has an international career working with famous magazines (Harper's Bazaar US, Elle France, Elle Germany, Marie Claire Brazil, Cosmopolitan US, to name only a few) as well as advertising campaigns across beauty and fashion (L'Oréal, Givenchy and many others).

Born in Spain before moving to Australia when he was nine years old, Israel Rivera is an award-winning fashion, beauty, lifestyle and advertising photographer who creates imagery that is full of depth and beauty.

With the soul of an artist, Israel is passionate and relentless about capturing beauty in every photograph and has a storytelling approach to all of his work. He is renowned for his easy-going, collaborative approach with both talent and clients, as well as his natural technical skills for lighting and utilising natural light.

When he isn’t working, Israel is continually inspired by his passion for creating beautiful imagery and can be found shooting personal work for his InMyOwnTime series.

"Give the man a ray of light, and he’ll paint you a picture of striking beauty." Lieven Dirckx illuminates models so light on their skin seems almost tangible, creating striking images of pure elegance.

Having been on the circuit since 1999, this team player has made his way from editorial work to creative agencies and advertising, going the extra mile to capture beauty the way it should be: alive. While delicately polished, Lieven's images are never devoid of feeling. His gracious subjects, often of a timeless allure, are perpetually poised, reflecting his expert sense of timing and technicality, along with his love for bold graphic statements.

Lieven’s sense of finesse has not gone unnoticed. After graduating from both Ghent and Reading universities, his keen eye has travelled the world to serve the likes of Massimo Dutti, Ray-Ban, Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren and a plethora of other brands outside the beauty realm, ranging from Eurostar to Coca-Cola and Lamborghini.

Currently based in Paris, Pascal Raso usually works in the studio but can also work pretty much anywhere in the world.

He is specialised in advertising, beauty, editorial and artistic photography and is known to have creative vision by transcending the simplicity and limitations of a basic technical style.

Since becoming a professional photographer, Pascal has consistently aimed to deliver a strong impression with his photographs while maintaining a theme that is appropriate to what is asked from him. Providing top quality and expertise for each of his photographs, his creative mind is only topped by his artistic drawing abilities.

Ssam Kim was born in South Korea and moved to London in 2002 where she graduated from the London College for Fashion Photography. She worked as in-house photographer at WOUND Magazine and as visual editor at Glass Magazine.

In 2012, Ssam moved to New York and now shoots for clients such as Cutler and Gross, Andaz by Hyatt Hotels, Uniqlo Korea, Natural Selection, Rachel Cox, Gentle Monster, New Balance, Essie, Deborah Vereck and Morana US.

Ssam also shoots for publications including Harper's Bazaar Man, Nylon, W Korea, Glass UK, Vogue Korea, Harper's Bazaar Korea and Eloquence Magazine.