dusseldorf Oct 2016

Rockenfeller & Goebels represents photographers distinguished by an outstanding image language and professional experience.

The agency operates worldwide and works with advertising agencies, editorials and direct costumers offering photographic specialists for each case.

The creative and professional work of the photographers is always the center of attention.

In addition to the communicational part, Rockenfeller & Goebels delegates all aspects of professional photoproduction, such as booking, casting, travel management, production and postproduction.

The team around Dorothee Goebels offers national and international production of any scale, in german, french, english and spanish languages. The experience and the project-oriented work of representation experts ensure great results for every client.

FARIYAL KENNEL was originally established in 2002 and continues under its now known name and structure since 2015. Today Fariyal Kennel and her team of photographers cover a broad spectrum from beauty, fashion, people and kids to food, interior, still life and lifestyle in commercial and editorial photography.

The agency offers full production service, including consultation, budgeting, casting, location scouting, post production and portfolio management. It cooperates with experienced production teams worldwide and serve well-known clients such as Audi, MINI, Deutsche Post, Douglas, RTL and Wella.

‘’We have dedicated our hearts and souls to visualise your ideas and are happy to serve you.’’

AD.LIPS is a global production network and representation agency for photographers and filmmakers. The company's identity is networking: it's not just about gathering different talents for a specific assignement, it's about creating a collective genius, gathering knowledge, skills, creativity, expertise from all over the globe to work faster, leaner and create outstanding, authentic results. Their clients highly appreciate the hearty, service-oriented attitude typical for the Ruhr area of Germany mixed with a creative and international approach.

The agency currently works with photographers and filmmakers from Los Angeles, New York, Barcelona, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bristol, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and various Ruhr area locations, and is open for collaboration in German, English, Danish and Swedish. 

You can see their work in our Showcase magazine and check the latest news of the agency on their Instagram, Facebook and Twitter profiles.

Sebastian Brüll began his career as a fashion photographer but now also focuses on people and lifestyle.

Since 2013, Sebastian has been based in Dusseldorf and has shot for brands including APART Fashion, Street One and Margittes, among others.

Featured in this Showcase is a selection of his people and lifestyle images, as well as a campaign shot for Ulli Mahler and two pictures from an editorial for POPUPNOW Fair.

Burkhard Henrichs is a long established fashion and advertising photographer, based in Dusseldorf, with an additional production outpost based in Cape Town.

Having worked for an impressive line up of fashion clients over the last two decades worlwide like Falke, Burlington, Esprit, Schiesser, Barbara Schwarzer, Odlo, Alberto Via Appia, Karstadt, Kaufhof and many more, Burkhard has kept the eye and the feel for the zeitgeist and impressive new visual looks, from edgy editorials like the latest Spectr. issue to commercial studio work.

Aside from his much loved travel production expertise (USA, Europe, Central America and South Africa), he is also known for his attractive studio work, bringing in his analogue experience, creating the perfect light in today's digital world.

Creativity, reliability, friendly service  and the will "to go the extra mile" are some of the striking features that characterise him and his work.

Holger Puhl is a Dusseldorf-based photographer specialising in high-class still life and advertising photography. His clients' list includes renowned brands such as Lancôme, L’Oréal, LVMH, BootsLaboratories, YSL as well as international agencies like McCann and Havas Worldwide.

Holger's work is marked by his passion for an elegant use of lighting and composition as well as by his patience and attention to detail. Holger's precise technique transforms everyday materials into something extraordinary.  20 years of experience in product photography combined with a fully equipped studio and his in-house post-production guarantees great results.

Recent works featured in this Showcase magazine include projects done for L'Oréal Paris, Maybelline New York, Pilsner Urquell, Tyskie and others. Visit his website to see more work.

Markus Moellenberg is a Dusseldorf-based fashion photographer who does photo shoots with people on location as well as fashion stills in his own studio. 

Among his clients are companies like Breuninger, P&C, Mey&Edlich and Peter Hahn.

Now concentrated mostly on fashion, Markus used to shoot portraits for music and business magazines. He has worked with international celebrities like Rihanna, JaRule, RZA, Shaggy, MelC and Geri Halliwell on one side and financial and industrial companies like Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Air Berlin and Thyssen Krupp on the other.

Stefan Kapfer is a fashion photographer specialised in beauty editorials and campaigns. His success in beauty and fashion photography is rooted in his background. Having started as an independent makeup artist in New York, Stefan developed a great eye for detail. His professional career as a photographer has begun in 1998 with the Cavita (Escada Group) campaign featuring Kelly Fischer. Since then his lense captured many more celebrities such as R. Hunold, Nick Heidfeld and David Bowie.

Stefan is now based in Germany with his second base in Cape Town. He has worked all over the world shooting catalogues for clients like Tchibo, C&A, Ernstings Family and editorials for magazines like Eyewear Magazine, ELLE and Style. His clients love him for his problem-solving ability and unique and elegant style.

Felix Gemein is a Dusseldorf-based photographer specialised in people, documentary and aerial photography. His list of clients include brands like Huawei, Red Bull, Pacific Airlines, NRW bank, Sony Playstation, Claas, Veolia and many more.

Felix's photoraphy tries to capture the true character of his subjects. This, combined with the clean geometry of his works, creates a unique and expressive style.

In 2012 Felix discovered his passion for aerial photography and now keeps working in this area as a skilled drone pilot for video and photo production.

Currently Felix and his team are working on a big documentary about RC-Sports, the world full of fascination for engineering, technology and competitions.

To know more about the recent projects and to see more work, visit his website.

Working from his bright and spacious downtown, backyard studio in the centre of Dusseldorf, Domenik Broich is driven by a passion for their work creating images across still life, fashion, food, kids and advertising.

His professional vocation, precise work and excellent lighting abilities provides consistent success and has earned him the trust of many long-term clients including Kettler, Strellson, Step Magazine, G-LAB, Fashion ID, Michael Meyer, GDS Messe Düsseldorf, KunstundKollegen, Echopark/KIK and more.

Domenik is known for his reliability and strong problem solving abilities. The studio is always trying to push boundaries, keeping clients' needs, deadlines and budgets firmly in mind.

Domenik's professional work-flow and constant attention to quality make him the perfect partner for any project.

Beate Hansen is a Dusseldorf based photographer with her own studio. She is well known for her pure and timeless images, sensual and emotional – finding the true and magic moment between camera and model.

Her clients always appreciate the results of excellent teamwork and the professional development of photo productions in a very relaxed atmosphere, due to Beate and her team’s many years of experience.

Beate has worked in numerous worldwide locations for German and international fashion designers, brands and campaigns.

Her work has been published in magazines like STERN, Harper's Bazaar, L´Officiel, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and many more.

To Frank, the main part of a good photographic result is to get in contact with the person, who he has to shoot. He is a very sensitive, empathetic and open minded photographer, who is able to make people feel comfortable during the shoot, doesn’t matter if he works with a trainee, a professional, the management board, an everyday person, an artist or a celebrity. As a consequence, Frank is mainly working as a people and portrait photographer in the fields of corporate communications with a main focus on employer branding campaigns and advertising campaigns. He also works with several national and international magazines, where he often portraits people or shoots stories.

Clients include Amazon, AOK, Beumer Group, BNP Paribas, Degussa Bank, E.ON, FREUNDIN, Itelligence, MAN Magazine, Michelin, Modern Painters, Reader’s Digest Magazine, Sick AG, and Stadt Sparkasse Düsseldorf, among others. 

Bernd Cierpiol has been working in fashion, people and lifestyle photography for 20 years. The subject of his photography is a human; he is interested in characters, faces and their true expressions. Bernd has always been avoiding fleeting trends and empty beautification in his work, which helped him find his own photography language that is unpretentious but powerful. Total control over the shooting process and production is one of the defining characteristics of his working method. Bernd loves coincidences and surprises but only if they were carefully prepared by him before.

During his career he has worked with many beauty and fashion brands such as OTTO and MOROCCANOIL, model agencies, PR-Agencies and editorials like Vogue Italia and Die Welt. Bernd's portfolio also boasts works in landscape and industrial photography. 

Dirk Krüll is an editorial photographer with over 30 years of experience. After his studies at the Folkwang School (GHS Essen) Dirk has collaborated with a great number of renowned German magazines such as Stern, FAZ, Zeit, Geo, among others. He is represented by the Laif agency and is a member of the DGPH. Dirk's works have won several awards and have been published internationally. His photography has been exhibited in many galleries and museums, with some of his works displayed for the permanent exhibition at the Ruhrmuseum in Essen. 

In recent years his work has led him into corporate, cars, landscape, architecture and interior photography. He is currently working on a project about industrial architecture in his Rhein-Ruhr homeland. The series of photographs featured in this Showcase is exploring the industrial aesthetics of big cities of his region. Dirk's photography embraces the urban environment as a new human habitat and reveals the beauty created by the contrast of natural elements and industrial constructions.

You can see more works on his web site or email Dirk direcly.

If you’re looking for compact and serious fashion productions, organised, produced and post-produced in North Germany, Peter Wattendorff and his five-headed team will surprise you with extraordinary high class contemporary photography, as well as specific image processing.

Regularly shooting for well known German clients and agencies, they shoot in the studio and out on location. Fotografie Wattendorff GmbH has only state of the art equipment on hand as well as HMI for parallel video productions.
 
Clients include: Sieger Fashion, Cavallo, Spiegelburg, Ernstings Family, Apetito, BASF, Eon, Sparda Bank and LVM.
 
Visit their website or contact the Wattendorf team directly for more information.

Thorsten Schmidtkord is specialised on corporate communications, shooting industrial processes, employees in their work environment and capital goods, among other things. He shoots it in an unique way for each company. 

Thorsten’s clients book him to do photo shoots for their annual reports, company brochures, websites and customer magazines. To name just a few examples, Thorsten portrayed the staff of MLP, created the expressive image motifs for BMD and did the fascinating airshots for the CLAAS tractor campaign. Each company is unique and each company’s visual materials should be unique too. This is the task of Thorsten Schmidtkord.

Clients include ABUS, CLAAS, Wirtgen, Gelsenwasser, Siempelkamp, Klöckner, and Haniel, among others.  

Thorsten Schmidtkord is represented by EXPOSE Photographers.

Harry Vorsteher is an award-winning fashion, beauty and kids photographer based in Dusseldorf and working for clients worldwide. His portfolio boasts works done for the biggest advertising agencies such as McCann Erickson Hamburg, BBDO, Ogilvy, renowned brands like Nissan, Bosch, Audi, MEXX, Sony and editorials like Elle Germany, In Fashion and Men Style, among others.

His creativity is focused on achieving essential results and outstanding outcomes for his clients.

Taking natural and individual images is Harry's main motivation. His results are characterised by a unique sensitivity and creativity in which he strives for the perfect moment, captured in that one picture.

To see more works of Harry Vorsteher and get more information about recent projects visit his website.

Iver Hansen is a Dusseldorf-based car photographer with many years of experience. In 1984, Iver designed and built his own studio, specialized in car photography.

In 1996 he included professional post production in his workflow and a few years later he started using CGI in-house. In 2002, Iver produced his first full-CGI campain for Audi.

Iver is still on the road doing fine images.

Esskultur is a Dusseldorf-based studio specialised in food photography and film.

The owner of the studio, Jörk Hettmann, has more than 20 years work experience in food and beverage photography.

Numerous large food companies trusted in his unmistakable instinct for the right image.

The 400 sq m studio is fully equipped and provides everything that is needed for food photography: from a large inventory of props to very experienced food stylists and image editors.

The studio also provides the complete technical equipment, which is needed for food videos, for example, slow motion cameras, specialised lamps and spotlights.

“We understand ourselves as a platform dedicated to the culture of food whether it's recipes, trendy restaurants, slow and fast food or attractive decorations.”

Manfred Heiduk is based in Dusseldorf and travels constantly to Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Cape Town and London. Manfred spent many years as an illustrator and creative director in digital media. With more than 20 years of experience in photography, he is specialised in shooting in extreme conditions.

For Karstadt Sports he shot in the Italian Alps, Austrian Glaciers, Mojave Desert and Death Valley. He is continually booked for running, biking, ski and fashion productions.

Manfred has assembled a great team that can tackle any situation - and do it with enthusiasm and efficiency. As a photographer he loves to challenge himself by discovering new places where there are unique stories to tell.

Offering full service international photo and video productions, his clients include Adidas, Puma, Nike, Sportarena, FIFA, Sidestep, Runners Point, C&A, Kaufhof, Boecker, Deichmann and Metro Group.

Michael Haegele has worked as a photographer in Dusseldorf since 1993.

Michael’s strong sense of visualising for brands and companies and his ability to create fascinating connections between people and technologies, has led to him shooting campaigns at the highest level. BMW, Air France, Bayer, Daimler Chrysler and Deutsche Bank i.a., are only a few of Michael Haegele‘s clients.

His repertoire contains still life, car and transportation, people, food, lifestyle and editorial photography.
 

Ansgar loves people and light. He shoots atmospheric images in large scale fashion productions as well as in intimate portrait sessions. Advertising clients book him for his cinematic style and his iconic portraits are appreciated by media outlets, cultural institutions and corporations. 

More than two decades of experience, living in the US for many years and now back in Europe, make him a seasoned photographer who manages the most demanding shoots with ease and positive attitude, enjoyed by team and clients alike.

The Dusseldorf based agency was established in 2001 and delivers high quality services within the advertising and fashion business. The booking team supports their clients with 25 years of experience and a growing network of highly talented artists, which combine craftsmanship and creativity for the best possible results. In 2010 the 21rent department was added with a fine selection of showrooms, locations and rental studios.

In August 2016 the agency launched the trend setting blogging special lookdepartment, which provides the influencer market with highly qualified bloggers for fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands.

21Agency is a founding member of the bavus e.V. and sets new standards in this supporting part of the advertising business.

H60 office is a production company and one of the most beautiful studios in Dusseldorf. The studio and office is located next to the famous shopping street KÖ.

H60 has lead production all over the world from Cape Town to Gambia, Europe and the United States. For clients looking to produce in the studio or on location in Dusseldorf, the H60 team can organise everything from catering to casting, set building, styling and make-up.

The studio is fully equipped with broncolor, Phase One, Canon and Apple systems. Digital operators and 'making-of' film producers are also part of the team.

Established in 1998, Pirates’n Paradise is a forward-looking, full service post-production company with a long standing and experienced family of artists and producers. With locations in both Dusseldorf and Berlin, its headquarters remain based in the capital city of NRW.

Pirates’n Paradise realises projects for clients from all industries and works for the biggest international agencies, having won more than 70 international awards.

Equipped with the latest state-of-the-art tools, the company not only processes classic commercials with editing, compositing, digital grading, 2D and 3D techniques but also works across all new digital channels.

Features include 360° Stereoscopy, HDR-technology and many special formats such as trade fair films up to 8K resolution. Visit the website or contact the Pirates’n Paradise team directly for more information.

Serving the creative industry for almost 20 years, [zerone] is known as one of the leading creative photo retouching and CGI studios worldwide. With offices in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Berlin their one-of-a-kind team of talented 2D and 3D artists has earned an outstanding reputation. 

Just recently [zerone] has introduced [zerone] Personal, a project focusing on Fine Art and personal portfolio work.

This Showcase is featuring some of the latest works of the studio such as two series of images featuring the new M4 and the current BMW DTM race cars, the new Renault Clio campaign supervised by the Prodigious brand logistics™(France), shot by Steffen Jahn and visualized by [zerone], and a very personal campaign for Marco Reus, where [zerone] took care of retouching and final colors and style of the footage photographed by Stefan Grey.

711rent is Europe's leading photo and film equipment rental house with branches in Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Mallorca. The company carries well-maintained gear from all major brands, including Profoto, Broncolor, Briese, Arri, Kino Flo, Dedolight, Hasselblad, Phase One, Canon, Nikon, Apple, Mole Richardson, The Light and many more.

Their Dusseldorf branch is the logistical hub of the 711rent's network that caters to the whole Ruhr district. All the 711rent locations have their own parking lot and a convinient loading ramp. In their  Dusseldorf shop you can find a studio area where customers can test out the newest in lighting and camera equipment or just enjoy a chat with the expierienced staff.

Among the latest additions in the equipment offered by 711rent you can find such models as Profoto D2 1000 and 500 with build in TTL and HSS, Zeiss Batis 25/2 and 85/1,8 lenses for Sony E-mount, Canon 1Dx Mark 2 and Canon 5D MarkIV, Nikon 105/1,4 (portrait and beauty lenses), Sigma Art 20/1,4 (unique fast wideangle lens for Canon), DJI Ronin MX Gimbal systems, Pentax 645 Digital System 50MP CMOS Sensor and Leica M System 24MP CMOS Sensor.

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.