germany Feb 2020

Ghp Photo & Production is an established full-service production company. Hamburg and Miami based, with worldwide contacts via a successful network of professional partners.

''As content producers, we have been bringing print and video campaigns to life for over 15 years.

Our goal is to provide the best production service available, including location scouting, art buying, production management, model castings, research permits and budgeting.''

Avenger Photographers is a Munich-based photography agency representing leading beauty, fashion, portrait, people, advertising, sports and still life photographers.

“We are delighted to welcome SEREGEL aka Christian Hoppe, Puria Safary and Kathrin Baumann to our sparkling roster. 

• SEREGEL aka Christian Hoppe is specialised in fashion, beauty, lingerie and hair photography. He has a studio in Berlin and a post-production studio in Sweden (Redhaven), where he also does the post-production for his video clips.
• Puria Safary, born in Aachen now living in Berlin, loves to shoot mainly in black and white. Purias first personal project ‘Safary’s Frame’ captures his subjects with a chair, telling their story and allowing them to express their reality.
• Kathrin Baumann is specialised in kids photography. She grew up with the camera - her grandpa and her dad were also photographers with their own sports press-agency. In sports like in children photography you need one thing above all: a quick autofocus and a feeling for the right moment.

For over 20 years, Avenger Photographers has been renowned for representing a professional and creative group of photographers. All of its individual photographers have been shooting new things so this Showcase only shows a small selection.

All recent shoots and latest news can be seen on our website."

Gabo's inimitable style is life-affirming, expressive, humorous and always close. She takes pictures of all kinds of humans, including famous international characters from politics, sports, music, film and television.

Most important for Gabo is transporting soul and truth in her pictures. Gabo also loves to work as a film and video director, mixing pictures with speech and music.

Her latest project was a portrait shooting of Barbara Schoeneberger for Barbara Magazine. When these two power women met on set, there was a lot of laughing, dreaming, eating and everything sparkled. It was all about jewellery, beauty, food and a portrait of a woman who couldn't be stopped! Even at five degrees in the freezing cold outside, Barbara went into the water at Lake Studios without batting an eyelid.

Photographer and director Claudius Holzmann is based in Duesseldorf, Germany. He has been working in the advertising industry for more than 30 years. His portfolio is very varied and involves many styles and expressions. His work includes mainly beauty and fashion photography and film, people and celebrity photography and advertising photography and film. His clients come from advertising agencies and multinationals, big industries as well as smaller companies.

His experience across many fields of advertising photography and film sets him apart from the competition. He is well known for his positive and easy going work attitude. He always tries to partner with his clients to create the very best result for the unique brand’s DNA. He once said about his work: “My style is aesthetics.”  

Claudius's company Cream Digital Pictures offers its own production and post-production services in photo and film. There can be booked single services or complete productions out of one hand.

During the past year, Jan shot several print ads and billboards for Renault Europe and Renault France - including the new Renault Captur which is currently visible throughout Europe. 

Beate Hansen is a German photographer based in Düsseldorf. She works with a close team and is always full of positive energy and passion for her projects.

Teamwork is very important to her and when starting a new photo production project she communicates her ideas and gives detailed advice and instructions. For her, preparation and concentration are vital.

"Sometimes the best images happen in between" - Beate always feels when she gets the final shot and her clients usually agree with her choices.

"Awareness, coolness, character, emotion - this should be shown in soulful photography, no matter if it's made for fashion or beauty products."

Due to the increasing demand for social media content and the vast creative potential of video, Christian Stoll has expanded his skills towards motion and is now working as a director.

Unlike many directors, Christian Stoll shoots still photography as well, eliminating the need for an additional photographer and allowing for a very consistent aesthetic between film and print for your project.

Julien Barbès is a fashion and commercial photographer who works worldwide with more than 10 years of experience. He has a sensitive eye for patterns, light and colour, giving rise to minimalistic images with a distinct architectural feel.

Julien’s clients includes Hugo Boss, Adidas Original, Asics, Camel Active, Zalando, Van Laak, Intersport, Highsnobiety, Achtung Mode, Hunger TV, Caleo Magazine, VIU Eyewear, Fucking Young!, and many more.

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Based in Berlin since 2013. You can see his work on his website and on Instagram.

If you ask Peter Wattendorff about his job, the answer is "I take pictures." Over 20 years ago, the trained stage painter replaced the brush with a camera and light. Since 1996, he has been professionally staging people, fashion and products. Together with his partner Daniel Witte, he works with large banks and insurance companies as well as well-known industrial and fashion customers.

Peter Wattendorff works in photography as if it were a painting. For him every location, from tabletops to container halls, can become the stage for its virtual and often dramatic lighting. He emphatically leads his models into their intended roles, always looking for the perfect image, that's effective both on a promotional and a narrative level.

The agency modus werbung, Hamburg, commissioned Christoph with the realisation of a photo campaign and two accompanying films for their client W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH (GORE-TEX). Work clothing with arc protection should be presented authentically and in a real work environment. The challenge was to present an ordinary work situation in an extraordinary way. In addition, very similar imagery and looks had to be designed for film and photo motifs to establish a consistent campaign look. In his dual function as photographer and director, Christoph is at home with both types of media and was, therefore, able to implement these tasks for the GORE® PYRAD® clothing in a targeted manner.

Christoph made two atmospheric lifestyle films for his client Witt-Weiden. The umbrella campaign "Fashion that likes me" is developed and managed by the Communicators agency. In the two films, Christoph shows once again that as a director he can motivate his actors, even in a tight period of 20 seconds. The films portray happy, almost high-spirited women who enjoy life, thanks to the well-being fashion from Witt-Weiden. Corresponding to the shoot, Christoph also photographed the campaign image therefore could ensure that the entire campaign had the same aesthetic style.

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

Whether he shoots editorial reportages, advertisement campaigns, portraits of CEOs or employer branding stories, he 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, Mazda, SZ Scala, C3, Hoffmann & Campe, Territory, Condé Nast, Impulse, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, FourFourTwo, Haymarket, Redwood and various international clients, agencies, B2B and B2C magazines.

Studio Haensel is composed of a small team working with a lot of passion and experience for well-known agencies, publishers and end customers.

Based on years of experience, the team offer customers extensive advice and help across design, visual language and implementation.

The principle of constantly achieving the best result always counts for Studio Haensel.

Elke Vogelsang specialises in pet portraiture for commercial and editorial projects. Based in Germany she offers commissioned photography world-wide. 

With her own pet picture agency with hundreds of hand-selected images she might already have what you are looking for for your pet picture related commercial or editorial projects.

Her commercial clients include Fujifilm, The South Australian Museum, Kesselskramer, Medion, Mars Petcare and many more. 

Her photography appeared on US and German television and has been published in books, newspapers, and magazines globally, including the likes of National Geographic, The Sunday Times Magazine and The Daily Telegraph. In addition to this, her work has been displayed in galleries in London, Paris, Lisbon, San Anselmo, and Singapore.

Stuttgart and Lisbon-based production company Hamilton R. Pereira has experience across all areas of still and motion production and location scouting.

Wether it is just location service or the whole package - you can trust on an extensive international network and over 20 years' experience in the photo production business.

Recent jobs include:

• LBBW employer branding campaign by Benne Ochs shot in Stuttgart
• EnBW mobility+ campaign by Joel Micah Miller shot in Stuttgart
• Porsche Formula E campaign by Patrick Schonlau shot in Stuttgart
• Lexus UX 300e campaign by John Higginson shot in Berlin
• Mini Cooper SE event film by Joachim Zunke, service production for clip up film shot in Lisbon

Other clients include brands such as Otto, Siemens, Amway, Kärcher, Ongo, Fisher Price and Trigema.

With over 20 years of professional experience in production, casting and location services, bigshrimp is known to be firm as a rock when it comes to both big and small photo productions. 

"With offices in Hamburg and Berlin, we realise fashion editorials as well as advertising campaigns and TV spots all over Germany and beyond.

On set, everybody enjoys our full attention and will be perfectly cared for. In the past years we've worked hard on being as climate friendly and sustainable as possible.

With over 1.000 locations in northern Germany, Hamburg and Berlin and about 1.500 models in Germany, Austria and Switzerland bigshrimp is fit to support almost every project."

After almost 3.000km of scouting on the North and Baltic Sea coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, GLOBOPRODUCTIONS was once again responsible for the logistics and production of the summer 'tequipment' shooting for the client Porsche AG.

Again, two trucks with six sports vehicles had to be coordinated and the corresponding models had to be brought to the selected locations. The shooting took place last summer; the responsible photographer was Stephan Romer under the creative direction of the agency KEKO GmbH from Frankfurt. For film and side shots were zvei_studios and Andi Koslowski.

Another project for Porsche AG was a road trip with the Taycan through Andalusia at the end of 2019 under the auspices of the agency United Digital Group (UDG) Ludwigsburg GmbH. Within only two weeks, route suggestions were developed and a scouting was carried out to produce directly afterwards in the middle of November in southern Spain.

Accompanying photographer was André Josselin from Cologne, protagonist of the car trip was the Instagram 'Influencer' and photographer Lennart Pagel. Andalusia's inland was particularly challenging in terms of logistics, as the entire road trip was to take place under real conditions. But everything worked out as planned and the crew arrived at their destination Seville happy and with great photos.

Delight Rental Services. Equipped for every vision.

Delight Rental Services provides maximum support for professional photo and video productions worldwide.The company offers the latest high-end camera and lighting gear and supplies every essential piece of equipment, ranging from production vehicles to platforms, computers to steamers, and everything in between to ensure a successful professional shoot.

DRS branches can be found in Berlin, Stuttgart and Marbella, all with a complete rental portfolio.

"Regardless of whether you‘re a photographer, film-maker, producer, stylist or outfitter, Delight Rental Services will serve your needs, supplying a huge range of digital, lighting, production and styling equipment.“

Drop by in their constantly evolving rooms in Berlin.

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.

By 2020 more than a third of all Germans will be over 50. The over 50s will become the key target audience in advertising. Elbmodels really understands this development, so for 13 years the age range of our models starts where other agencies draw the line.

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

"We think youth is overrated."

Guido Gravelius has worked as a professional food stylist since 2005. As a experienced chef he brings with him a wealth of  knowledge and skills that are fundemental for food styling.

His creativity and above all his love and respect for food always leads to great results. Guido also owns a big collection of props and backdrops, which is another passion beside food styling.

Guido is based in Munich, Frankfurt and Zürich but he is happy to travel for work. He's available for advertising, packaging, editorial and video/ commercials.

His clients include: Electrolux, Mövenpick, Bonduell, Bedford, Lufthansa, Bosch, Lidl, Nestlé, Edeka, Unilever, Vion Food Group, Subway, Bell, Emmi, Appenzeller, Gruner & Jahr, Savencia Fromage & Dairy, Ikea, Coop, and Migros.

Karo Akpokiere is an artist/designer based between Hamburg, Germany and Lagos, Nigeria. He creates bold drawings using traditional and/or digital means. Moving effortlessly between self-initiated and commissioned projects, his work is reflective of his interests in pattern design, graphic design, lettering, and storytelling.   

Karo Akpokiere regularly exhibits his drawings around the world and has worked on commissioned projects for Nike Europe, Google San Francisco and more.

Calling all professional food photographers and stylists!

Where can you learn from the best talent in the world? The FOODPHOTO FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS brings you the masters of our industry - Adrian Mueller, Daria Khoroshavina and Geoff Binns-Calvey.

This unique workshop series (in English) begins in March in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf.

Find out more or sign-up while spaces are available.