germany Sep 2019

Lunik is a Berlin-based full service production company handling different requirements across photography and video. Lunik’s international network allows it to offer all fields of production service worldwide, including art-buying, location scouting, casting or whatever is needed for the perfect shoot.

In addition, Lunik is able to supply high standard 'Making-Of' film production, implemented by creative professionals.

Recent and upcoming projects include:

• BMW editorial and campaign shoot for REWE with Jan-Eric Euler.
• Fashion shoot for Colins Jeans with Paul Berends.
• Production service for Shirin David with Vijat Mohindra.
• Porsche Design campaign with Wolfgang Zac.

Marion Walter Production is a full service production company based in Hamburg and Ibiza, providing complete production services to a wide range of clients in the international fashion and advertising industries, including Calamar, Hattric, Olsen and bruno banani.

"From our 'Spain Office' in Ibiza we work with our local team for clients in Ibiza, Mallorca, Valencia and on the Canary Islands. We also have cooperation partners in Munich, Düsseldorf, New York and all over the world, so we offer our production services not only in Europe, but worldwide.

A typical production requires a team. Therefore we have several experienced art directors, copywriters, designers and a public relations partner agency we work with. We are a crew of passionate creatives and together we manage all aspects of a photo or video production – for online campaigns, print advertisement and catalogues.

Our motto is "we love what we do, and nothing is impossible.” We bring our passion to every production project because the credo of our work is to always offer the best quality, with a high level of accuracy and creativity!"

DASPROPHAUS is a boutique prop rental shop located in Munich, providing production services for both photo and video clients.

Founder of the company Christin Skory-Stadler has over 20 years of experience in the business. DASPROPHAUS offers the optimum know-how to organise and coordinate advertising, catalogue shoots and campaigns, including all necessary elements for a successful  and smooth production such as budget management, hotel booking, transport, location management, location scouting, equipment rental, catering, casting, art buying and prop research.

DASPROPHAUS can help find indoor or outdoor locations and props in and around Munich from its own large archive as well as from other sources thanks to its wide network.

Recent clients include Bogner, Peek and Cloppenburg, Hugo Boss, WMF, Globetrotter, Birkenstock, Mac, Betty Barclay, and more.

Latest projects from Petra Wiebe, a Munich-based freelance stylist, fashion editor and producer, include:

• The SVD Perfect Guide Sweden for September 2019, with photographer Norbert Bäres and model Leni/Mega.
• Maxima cover Portugal, July 2019 with photographer Andreas Ortner and model Victoria Ortner and for the August edition with photographer Jens Schmidt/Katrin Hohberg and model Milena Martin/Mega.
• With Jens Schmidt, Petra also realised an editorial for Woman Austria June 2019 in the Maledives, an editorial for Femina Switzerland July 2019, and a cover for Vogue Netherlands September 2019 - all with model Caroline Lossberg/Mega.
• Femina Switzerland June 2019 editorial with photographer Felix Sattel and Milena. All models by Visage.ch.

Hair and make-up for all projects by Norbert Cheminel.

• A campaign for Werner Christ. Photos by Sebastian Mittermeier, video by Felix Sattel, and hair and make-up artist Sigi Kumpfmüller. 

Marco Alecci is a make-up artist and hair stylist with 11 years of experience working for fashion, advertising, editorials and catwalk events. He started his career as a hair-dresser and is has been working successfully as a freelancer for the past four years.

Marco's work has been published in leading fashion magazines such as Vogue Italia online, Vogue Brazil, and many others. He worked on Pat McGrath's team for Paris Fashion Week, handling shows for Miu Miu, Valentino and Louis Vuitton.

Marco is based in Germany but travels throughout the world to locations including Milan, Paris, London, New York and Miami. He has worked with a range of different celebrities including Caro Daur, Tess Holiday, Hayley Hasselhoff and Emilia Schüle.

Marco speaks Italian, English, and German fluently. Honesty and passion are the distinctive elements of his approach, and he  continually works on his professional development to improve his knowledge about new techniques in the cosmetic industry.

As an artist he is represented by Ballsaal in Hamburg.

Over the past 20 years, Most Wanted Models® has established one of Germany's leading agencies.

With offices in Munich and Hamburg, Most Wanted Models operates worldwide and represents approximately 700 German as well as internationally recognised, notable models. The agency has a client base ranging from fashion and catalogue to editorial and traditional advertising.

"One of our greatest strengths lies in the personal approach we provide to our models and clients. We develop a large number of our own local models and represent well-known names like Donna Feldmann, Sofiia Mecheter, John Vanbeber, and many more. In addition to carefully selecting and providing our clients with modelling talent that fits their needs, we put great effort into developing newcomers as professional models, assisting them in every step of their career."

Most Wanted Models offers a wide range of talents including catalogue models, e-commerce models, show models and campaign models.

The agency has been a member of VELMA, Germany's registered model agency association, since 2001.

By 2020, more than a third of all Germans will be over 50. Best Agers will become the key target audience in advertising. elbmodels really understands this development, so for 12 years the age range of its models starts where other agencies draw the line.

Located in Hamburg and Munich, elbmodels connects experienced models from Germany and abroad with agencies, editorial offices and photographers for movie and photo productions. Its models embody the lifestyle of their generation, with a striking appearance and lots of experience.

"We think youth is overrated.“

Michael Heinsen specialises in credible, atmospheric, emotional and high-quality lifestyle and people photography. Parallel video productions are also part of his work.

His reliance on Mallorca and the great weather seduces productions at sea, in the water and in the sun.

He is represented by Düsseldorf-based Rockefeller und Göbels.

The past year has kept Alexander Babic busy and on the road, shooting actor and race driver Patrick Dempsey for Porsche Motorsport during the 24h of Le Mans.

IGEPA then sent him 5000km around Europe for 12 days in an old Porsche 911SC for a great book project.

Jetfly assigned him to shoot its new Pilatus PC-24 by Starck in Dijon and Husqvarna the Vitpilen 701 on the streets of Hamburg. For VW he shot a new service campaign in Wolfsburg as well as the Maserati Ghibli on the Lower Grand in DT LA - a dream project.

Astrid Obert is a professional international photographer for fashion, lifestyle and interior design. Based in Munich and Cape Town, over the past 20 years Astrid has worked for world-renowned brands, established advertising agencies, celebrities and top magazines across the globe. She is responsible for the planning, implementation and quality control of significant campaigns.

Her way of working is characterised by creativity, a solution-oriented approach, and motivating interaction with all members of a team. She is relaxed, charming and a technical mastermind that gets the job done. Supported by her long career, she produces inspirational photography full of creativity, passion, and funk.

Astrid offers the full range of production services with outstanding quality to local and international agencies, brands and magazines alike.

Anja Prestel is a Munich-based photographer working in the food, drink and advertising spaces for more than 15 years.

Anja's style can be defined through its calculated simplicity as well as her respect and understanding of her subjects. She favours natural lighting where appropriate, and is very comfortable manufacturing her own illumination where necessary.

Her clients include Campari, Charles Schumann, Fritz Müller, Aqua Monaco, Mas Que Vinos, Walter & Sohn wine shops, Gravity Munich, Gourmistas and more.

Car, people and sport photographer Tim Adorf recently completed an electrifying shoot in Barcelona with, amongst other models, the first fully electric Mercedes-Benz EQC - a shoot that combined his two passions: cars and people. And if these people are furthermore active in sports, then Tim is in his element.

For example, for the British football magazine Soccerbible, and in collaboration with Puma, Tim had a fun shoot with French world champion and FC Barcelona player, Samuel Umtiti.

Tim is based between Barcelona and Hamburg and since early 2019 has been represented by Claudia Bitzer, Hamburg.

For many years Andreas Gerhardt has photographed and portrayed people across corporate, lifestyle and resort photography for agencies, publishers and large companies.

Aside from his commercial work, Andreas devotes himself to personal projects and prefers shooting in analogue fromats. To reach expected results his work needs to be fully concentrated.

Andreas is currently working on a project in which he uses the guidelines from Dogma95 for photography. Soon the Project Grand Vide will be published.

Portraits photographed by Andreas during his digital workflow are almost "out of the box". Intentionally, he renounces cumbersome post-processing and stresses instead the autenticity of the moment and the volitional, perfect non-perfection. Shoots with Andreas take place in a relaxed athmosphere.

Andreas works on location and in his studio in Freiburg, Black Forest.

In 2008, Germany-based photographer David Maurer established his business as a transportation, people, architecture and landscape photographer. He has since been commissioned by an ever-growing number of clients around the globe.

For one of his recent assignments, David shot the brand-new KIA ProCeed campaign in vivid nocturnal urban areas.

Commissioned by Porsche AG, he photographed the worldwide campaign for the highly anticipated new Porsche Macan in Beijing, Los Angeles and Cape Town.

For Nissan David shot the sixth generation of their all-new Nissan Altima. Time and again he’s drawn back to the racetrack, covering race action for clients such as AMG Racing or Falken Tyre.

Other clients include Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Škoda, Mazda, Pfizer, Opel, Leica, Iveco Magirus and many more.

After completing her training as a Media Designer, Katrin Winner went to Nuremberg to study Graphic Design and Photography. She found her professional fulfillment by combining her passion for good food with her artistic creativity and has since worked as a food-photographer.

Because of the farm her parents own and her working there with them over the years, Katrin knows exactly how much hard work and energy it takes to produce fresh and organic food, so she‘s always eager to work sustainably.

During her studies Katrin gained experience at well-known food photography studios in Ham­burg and Munich. After five years as a photographer, she decided in the beginning of 2018 to set up her own studio for food and still life photography in Munich.

Florian Jaeger's favourite focus is on people, lifestyle, sports, landscape and transportation images. He is always on a quest for fresh and unconventional approaches to the unique needs of every project.

Florian tries to walk the thin red line between authentic situations and fine art photos. He always keeps the needs of specific customers in mind and tries to enhance them with his own point of view.

Florian is based in Munich and the Zillertal Valley, but is available and keen to work all over the world.

Sandra Lachner is a passionate photographer who captures timeless images with love, joy and passion. Her team spirit, vast experience and her fine sense of humour are reflected in her vivid photos, showing her models at their best.

“It was a long production and a lot of work to do, but with Sandra it always seems easy and great fun.”

Sandra lives in Germany and has been working as a lifestyle and fashion photographer around the world. For many years Sandra has dedicated her talent and creativity to complete a vast variety of projects - always to the fullest satisfaction of her diverse client base.

Sandra is currently working on her next project, which will be released soon.

Ralph Wentz is the head and eye of RAW, a studio for photography and design based in Cologne. As a photographer, he has a reputation for clear and precise images, specialising in people and portrait, interior and exterior images for national and international clients.

Being interested in the entire body of photographic work, Ralph feels equally at home with corporate and product photography. His fine art portrait work is also highly regarded by private clients all around Germany.

At ease leading a large team or working solo, Ralph's aim is to allow for spontaneity within a well planned framework. With his wide range of experience both in photography and as a creative director, Ralph brings 25-plus years of experience to every assignement.

"I try to bring something more to the table, something unexpected. With my team we try to understand what our clients envision and passionately develop a visual solution on top of that, because everything we do benefits the identity of our clients' work.“

Patrick Zasada captures interior and exterior images of commercial and industrial buildings. With his business 'Architekturfotografie-Frankfurt', he has primarily been active in Germany but also other European countries for almost 10 years.

Patrick's focus in the field of architectural photography is on clear lines, enhanced shapes and details. His clients appreciate his clean look and the interesting perspectives which provide a good overview and stunning expressions within an estate portfolio. The visual language of Patrick’s photographs is individual to any subject and related to its context.

Some of Patrick’s clients include Chanel, CMS, Ebara Corporation, Gerresheimer AG, Hessen Trade & Invest, Hilton, Interhomes AG, JD Norman Industries, KT-Bank, R+V Versicherungen, Vanguard and VR Immobilien.

Rainer Haeckl shoots what he loves: people, sports and cars. His passion shows in his pictures and also gives him the urge and the energy to go the extra mile for the best shot - every time.

Rainer spent many years as a graphic designer and art director before his love for pictures made him switch to photography full time. As a result, he has a deep understanding of clients' needs during a big production. Rainer also handles most of his own post-production work.

Among his clients are global and local companies, ad agencies, athletes and artists from all over Europe.

Stefan Hobmaier is a freelance photographer based in Munich, focusing on portrait, industrial and corporate photography.

Whether he shoots editorial reportage, advertising or employer branding campaigns, Stefan always tries to produce honest, natural and lively imagery that gets people's attention.

His national and internatonal clients include BMW, Osram, Bosch, Hornbach, Intel, Google, ProSiebenSat1, MAN, H&M, Porsche, SZ Scala, C3, Hoffmann&Campe, Territory, Condé Nast, Impulse, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, FourFourTwo, Haymarket and Redwoo.

"Stephanie Trenz Photography - get real emotion into business."

Smile and the world smiles back. Stephanie knows this, which is why she meets decision-makers, managers and workers as personally and openly as she wants to have them during the shoot.

This creates trust and makes the difference, allowing her to achieve deep insights and produce images that are emotional and convince through maximum intensity.

"Highly professional and deeply human, Stephanie Trenz Photography is the best proof that photos can make a difference. The relationship of employees to their boss; an investor's confidence in a project; a person's attitude to himself."

Clients incluce Daimler AG, Porsche AG, FDP DVP, Groninger, Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG, Klafs, Schwäbisch-Hall AG, Voith, ElringKlinger AG, Gasversorgung Süddeutsch­land, N-ergie, Willems Eyewear, Apotheke 55 and many more.

Tamara Specht is a German photographer specialising in beauty, cosmetics, hair and still life photography. She is currently based between Stuttgart and Frankfurt and is available for requests worldwide.

The range of her beauty portfolio goes from clean purity to elaborate make-up and extraordinary, eye-catching image ideas. Combining soft luxury, boldness and raw emotion while celebrating the beauty and diversity of every human being, Tamara creates a journey in the mind of the viewer.

Her photography has been published worldwide in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Glamour, Marie Claire and many more.

Christoph Siegert has been voted one of the '200 Best Advertising Photographers in the World' in 2020. As in 2013 and 2019, the international jury at Lürzer's Archive selected him among the leading advertising photographers.

His series 'Natürlich Hamburg!' - a large-scale nature conservation project commissioned by the Authority for Environment and Energy (Behörde für Umwelt und Energie) - gained him the recognition once again. His combination of landscape photography and people photography convinced the jury.

Christoph has photographed various projects in the field of medical technology for international group Philips. Despite the technical theme, most of the motifs for the 'Trilogy Evo' ventilator focus on people's emotional relationships.

Hamburg-based ADRET - Advertising Retouching is a high-end digital retouching studio focused on still life, luxury, jewellery, beauty and fashion.

Unique images demand perfection and control. With special photography techniques and retouching experience, the highly skilled retouchers at ADRET pursue creative solutions with patience and concentration. With a full menu of services and efficient time management, the ADRET team is prepared to accomplish all imaging needs by deploying its range of skills to achieve outstanding results.

The experienced team takes raw materials and polishes them to form a perfect diamond, setting the mood and correcting lighting and colours along the way. ADRET creates outstanding visual effects and generates images of the highest quality.

ADRET's goal is to support clients with their projects. Visit the website for more information.

With a background in video post-production and photography, and through years of experience in digital retouching, Tobias Vogel has developed a keen eye for lighting and composition as well as a unique understanding of colour.

Tobias specialises in fashion and editorial retouching with an emphasis on colour toning. His skills in image and video editing come together in order to create animated-stills and bring still imagery to life in a captivating new form of visual art.

His commercial animation work is unique; not only creating cinemagraphs, but rather animations from still images instead of video files.

Tobias works with Volkswagen, Paul Ripke, and Tim Tadder among many other impressive names.

The perfect place for shoots and events in the Rhein-Main area, Hinterbergwerk studio is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art shooting space for cars, embargoed prototypes, fashion or sets. Only 15 minutes away from Frankfurt international airport, the studio is located in a charming, historic building.

Technical facilities include 26m cyclorama on a 180° floor plan, Tungsten lighting, grip, digital equipment, remote controlled floating flat (9m x 7m), front-of cove black drapery system, green screen (7m wide) and overhead top-shot platform.

The team will take care of any requests to ensure successful and stress-free productions.

"If you’re looking to always rent the newest and best photo and video equipment, then Calumet is the place to be. We always update the rental assortment to ensure you get the best equipment for your production.

We recently added the new X-T3 from Fujifilm with a lot of new lenses. And from Canon, we now offer the innovative EOS R, together with some RF lenses for best performance.

Since June, we have also been providing our rental service in Frankfurt am Main. With the seventh Calumet store, clients have optimal coverage across Germany. All seven shops in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Essen, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main have professional rental stations."