germany Dec 2021

Astrid Obert is a professional photographer and creative director internationally acclaimed for her subtle yet outstanding contributions in the expressive domains of fashion, lifestyle, lingerie and swimwear.

Based in Munich and Cape Town, she has demonstrated herself as a superior driving force in the field of creativity, artfully designing vibrant and progressive campaigns for world-renowned brands, advertising agencies, celebrities, and acclaimed magazines worldwide.

Her style is a thorough portrayal of her evocative personality, distinguished by her  penchant for producing creative stills with a significant focus on team and professional collaboration.

Astrid is passionate and exemplifies a calm persona, empowering her to produce inspirational photography, quality services and professional productions. Astrid and her team follow the summer, and she offers safe remote shootings to produce your sunny summer motifs and campaigns.

Don't hesitate to connect with her for your full-service production needs. Get all-inclusive shoots tailored to your needs that sell your product vision and ideas. Astrid and her team are looking forward to your enquiries.

Sebastian Matthias is a multiskilled photographer and digital artist from Germany. His main work area is portrait photography as well as staged and very unusual still photography. Besides this, he creates digital art by combining film and photography into breathtaking cinemagraphs. From his experience working in the film business, he gained the experience to understand motion and light at the same time.

As a photographer, Sebastian mainly shoots business portraits and image campaigns for medium sized companies and stages unusual pictures in product photography for various companies, often from the wine industry.

His cinemagraphs, a symbiosis of film and photography, are each a piece of art that keeps the audience watching.

Sebastian pushes the boundaries of cinemagraph every time and could be called a 'cinemagraph-guru' by now.

Sebastian is a positive minded person, believing in the good energy of art and always tries to bring that special feeling into every project.

Manfred is a Cologne-based commercial photographer specialising in conceptual, food and still life. He has over two decades of experience working in almost every aspect of the photography industry.

Manfred has become known for his graphic and colourful images which have superb quality and elegance. Obsessed with detail, he always strives to achieve an unique result. He has a great understanding of light and composition. He is skilled at working with natural and artificial light equally.

Manfred loves being involved in the creative process and contributes greatly to the concept and styling of the projects he collaborates on. With creativity, excellent execution and profound professionalism, Manfred is a committed and reliable partner for agencies and clients alike.

Due to Covid19, he offers remote shooting on request. Visit the website for more information or get in touch to discuss your next project and check out the latest projects on Instagram.

Oz John is a Berlin-based advertising photographer. He studied graphic design at university and worked for 14 years in advertising as a creative art director at companies such as Publicis, Euro RSCG, Bozell Worldwide, and The Coca-Cola Company.

His photography is noticeably technical and conceptual that comes from his art director background, which makes him good at working with creative themes and creative teams. He produced work that was published in online and printed media in Canada, the USA, and Europe.

Besides his professional occupation, Oz John is also an academic with a PhD in visual communication. He taught in several universities design and photography related courses. In addition to his photographic achievements, he owns several international awards in design, advertising, and marketing.

After completing her training as a media designer, Katrin Winner went to Nuremberg to study graphic design and photography.

She found her professional fulfilment by combining her passion for good food with her artistic creativity, and has since worked as a food photographer.

Her work over the years in the farm her parents own has made her value the hard work and the amount of 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 at the beginning of 2018 to set up her own studio for food and still life photography in Munich.

Yuriy is a German photographer, born in Ukraine and now mostly based in Barcelona. 

His photographs are a mixture of elegance, bursts of motion, atmospheric lights and precisely constructed compositions, where every element has its own place.

Although Yuriy has already developed his recognisable style, his high technical knowledge, art director's thinking and curiosity to experiment make him a visual polyglot, which allows him to move flexibly between the photographic genres. He is always well-prepared to meet his clients' needs. The combination of German accuracy and Eastern European spontaneity makes working with Yuriy fun, creative and reliable. 

As a passionate sports and martial arts practitioner for many years, Yuriy has worked as a model in the past. This all together gives him a much better understanding of how to direct his models, actors and athletes to get the best results.

Clients include Nike, Gymshark, Afterpay, AirBnB, BMB London, Styleheads Berlin, Loyal Agency Sydney, Matta Agency London.

Annie Martin is a food and drink, lifestyle, and still life photographer with over 10 years of experience. Recently relocated from California, she now resides in Berlin, Germany, were she works from her fully equipped photography studio as well as on location. 

The style and narrative in Annie’s photography is largely influenced by her travels, experienced as a child. From living and traveling in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and van life across 36 US states, she was exposed to a plethora of cuisines, cultures, and vibrant experiences which have influence how she sees the world. The different qualities of light, texture, and harmonious imbalance is what most inspires her in her visual storytelling. 

Annie loves working collaboratively with clients such as Jello, Postmates, Udemy, National Geographic Magazine, Martha Stewart Magazine, Zeit Magazine, Healthyish, AARP.

Michael Krosny is an advertising photographer and director based in Bavaria, close to Munich. 

His work is a shuffle of people, sports and cars - natural and punchy, calm and dynamic. Often really close without being invasive.

Have a look at this selection of photos shot at commissions for Nike, Opel, and Audi, among other projects. 

Also highlighted is the global Nike Underwear FW21 campaign with Leroy Sané which he shot and directed for PVH, New York.

''Come say hello.''

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

Agencies, corporate clients and magazines appreciate his honest, natural and modern imagery that gets people's attention.

In order to emphasise his storytelling approach, he had his website redesigned. You can check it out here. 

His national and international clients include Audi, BMW, Osram, Bosch, Hornbach, Intel, Intrinsic, Google, ProSiebenSat1, MAN, H&M, Porsche, Mazda, Siemens Healthineers, SZ Scala, Trumpf, Epiroc, C3, Hoffmann & Campe, Territory, Condé Nast, Laut von Leise, Interone, Thjnk, Impulse, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, FourFourTwo, Haymarket, Redwood and various international clients, agencies, B2B and B2C magazines.

Andreas Gerhardt's centre of life is in beautiful Freiburg on the edge of the famous Black Forest; many international companies are based there. Between jobs, he uses the time not only to keep fit with his racing bike and on skis in winter, but also to find new locations. Andreas Gerhardt is passionate about photographing people, whether documentary or staged. He always strives to reduce everything to the essentials.

Although Andreas Gerhardt has a clear focus, he also photographs objects, stills and architecture. In doing so, he always strives to find new perspectives and views. This is a plus point, especially when it comes to company presentations. His credo is "There is nothing that is not worth photographing."

New customers and their requirements expand the areas of his expertise. This includes participation in corporate design and art direction.

As part of Covid 19, Andreas Gerhardt complies with the applicable hygiene regulations. This of course also applies to his team, which can be reduced to the absolute minimum depending on the requirements. The perfect organisation of every production is essential to guarantee the quality of the end result.

Andreas Gerhardt works for Atmos, Trivida, Vertiko, Elastus-Sport, Burda, Energiedienst / Naturenergie, Apollo-Optik, AXA-Versicherung and others.

Camilla Camaglia is a beauty, fashion and portrait photographer, based between Rome and Berlin, working as a freelance for beauty and fashion brands, companies, artists and magazines.

Camilla’s strengths are that she can create impactful and creative images that catch the viewer’s eye, yet at the same time, she can also deliver a clean commercial image style where the post-production is always on point.

One of Camilla’s latest works includes photographing opera star Anna Netrebko for the cover and booklet of her new album “Amata dalle Tenebre”, commissioned by Universal Music Germany - Deutsche Grammophon.

She also recently shot commercial beauty work for Israeli make-up brand I'M Fashion Makeup and published a beauty and jewellery editorial in the September 2021 digital issue of L’Officiel Lithuania. 

Her photography work has appeared in several magazines such as Vogue, L’Officiel and Glamour and she has worked for clients such as Glossybox, Kryolan and Yepoda.

Björn Vilcens is a photographer and cinematographer based in Germany, near Karlsruhe. He works mainly for smaller, medium sized companies throughout the whole country.

The focus of his work is photography for corporate and industrial clients. In the year 2021, he extended his service more and more towards cinematography.

Portrait photography, interior photography, event photography and industrial photography are his main objectives. 

Based on the clients' requirements he creates visual concepts and brings them to reality. With a clear vision, and focus on the people and on the story of his customers, he provides individual and tailor made visual content that is used by his clients on social media, websites to replace stock photos and print advertising.

Vincenzo Buscemi is a Sicilian photographer born in Palermo. After studying graphic design and photography in Palermo, he moved to Milan, the city of fashion and art, where he worked as a graphic designer and photographer. Since 2010 he lives and works in Munich.

His passion for photography, art and music is an endless source of inspiration for his creative process and an inseparable part of his life. Thanks to photography, he is able to illustrate his ideas and dreams in a unique way to share them with other people.

In his opinion, photography does not need words -  in silence, it awakens the most diverse emotions in the viewer and invites to dream.

"We are a professional equipment rental company for photo, film, lighting and production equipment with locations in Berlin, Stuttgart and Marbella, Spain.

We take care of national and international productions, both in Germany and in other European countries. Whether for photoshoots or commercial film productions - we offer both the technology (ARRI, RED, Canon, Sony, ...) and the expert service: from consulting to rental and sales, transport to repair service.

Our competence, extensive professional equipment as well as expertise are the basis for the long-standing, successful customer relationships, which we cultivate with passion."

Featured / new arrivals:

• Freefly Wave 2TB
• Sony Cine Family: Alpha 7s III, FX3, FX6, FX9, Venice
• Arri Master Prime Lenses: 18mm, 21mm, 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 65mm, 100mm
• Arri Signature Prime 12mm
• NODO Inertia Wheels 3-Axis Pro Kit
• Fiilex Q5 Color & Fiilex Q8 Color.

Hinterbergwerk is the finest studio space in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main area for shooting cars, embargo prototypes, fashion and sets.

"We are a purpose built studio located in a historic and charming building only 15 minutes away from Frankfurt international airport. Special features are a 26m cyclorama on a 180° floor plan, remote-controlled floating flat (9m x 7m), front-of cove black drapery system, 7m wide green screen and overhead top-shot platform.

We are also offering live streaming events and online product presentations during Covid 19 pandemic; hygienic policies are strictly taken into account.

Our well-versed team will take care of any requests to ensure successful and stress-relieved productions."

Loom Management offers location scouting and high quality locations in Nuremberg, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart - for your photo and video productions.

For productions, they are also happy to take over the individual booking for needs such as model booking, photographer selection and styling.

"We have an extremely good network of top photographers, various model agencies and much more."

Looms newest locations featured in this Showcase:

Business No.17/18 - this open office working space to rent for photo and video productions offers a lot of space for larger productions on the four floors, flooded with light and with lots of glass, generous division. The location with the large terrace can also be used for events.

House No.43 - the large villa is often booked for fashion productions, the view by the pool with the evening sun and the depth into the park-like garden is a dream.

"We hope you all had a warm summer and a cool fall with loads of exciting productions. We sure did, and as we close out a crazy busy year, we're super happy to announce that we now have more than 600 locations in Europe and California on our platform - and counting!

With winter around the corner in Europe and with the Atlantic open to travel again, why don’t you check out our California selects by using our easy filtering system? For those who don't quite feel like California dreaming, pick any of our colourful and cosy locations in southern Europe to brighten up the cold days.

Moreover, if you should find yourself in the precarious situation of not having a X-mas party location nailed down for your team yet, or if you are in dire need of a pastel-coloured pool setting with a palm tree to shoot your inflatable unicorn in January... Just give us a shout, our international scouting service has got you covered."

The Haller 6 Location is located in the heart of Hamburg. It is located on the mezzanine floor of an old building from 1886 in the Rotherbaum district. Three individual salons await you on 180 square meters, through whose large, original wooden windows, atmospheric daylight falls.

Each of the three salons are adorned with ornamental stucco elements from the 19th century and they can be separated from one another by impressive antique sliding and wing doors. The effective interplay of pastel painted and natural wall surfaces form the ideal framework for your photo, film and event productions. The atmospheric ambience is rounded off by the original parquet and plank floors.

• Imposing room height of between 4.20m - 4.50m
• 3 x 32A power connections inside
• Mobile background suspension and different coloured paper backgrounds
• WiFi
• Ironing and board, mobile clothes rail with hangers
• 10 Styros b/w, styrofoam holder, height: 3m
• Numerous vintage furniture pieces.

Einat Dan is an award-winning make-up artist, art director and body painter. Her early work started out in Tel Aviv and led her to move on to live and work out of cities such as New York, Milan, Berlin and Paris. In 2012, she launched a successful line of make-up brushes called M.i.a (make-up.is.art).

In 2013 she found her new passion for fashion films, writing the scripts, directing and producing. She is also a key make-up artist on fashion shows and fashion films, and she runs make-up masterclasses worldwide. 

In 2019 Dan launched her first book “Art beyond beauty” together with the photographer Camilla Camaglia. The intensive dedication to her talent and career has led her to win 28 awards, including the lifetime achievement award in Bokeh festival.

Her work has been featured on the covers of fashion magazines such as Marie Claire, L’Officiel, Elle, Vogue, InStyle and more. Her goal is to keep inspiring artists to follow their hearts and dreams.  

Some of the celebrities and top models in Einat's list are Anna Netrebko, Anna Belmondo, Morgan Polanski, Tisha Campbell Martin, Adriana Lima, Toni Garn.

H5 Models is a young, fast growing model and people agency, based in Munich, Germany. No matter whether you’re looking for a photo model, an advertising model or a supernumerary for your next movie - H5 Models will find the characters and faces you are looking for.

''To make your next project become a success, we are there for you around the clock. Just give us a call and we will do everything we can to support you with strong faces and talented actors.''

At H5 Models you’ll find:

• male models / men
• female models / women
• child models / kids
• 50plus models / best ager
• couples, families and groups
• curvy models / plus size models

The talents of H5 Models are scouted, cast and photographed by leading photographers in all of Germany's major cities.

Featured in this Showcase: some of the most wanted H5 Models faces in 2021.

ModelManagement.com is a digital platform that connects models and creative industry professionals worldwide. Models can find jobs, while creatives can find models for their projects and connect with other professionals. 

The company, founded by Andreas von Estorff in 2009, is on a mission to create a digital driven modelling industry that is diverse, accessible and safe for everyone. 

Photographers, brands, casting directors, agencies, small businesses and production companies can post paid jobs, collaboration shoots, or other collaborations and source diverse models and talent in a direct way, from the best selection on the planet.

The platform has more than one million registered models worldwide and brands such as Nike, Desigual and Oysho have used ModelManagement.com for their projects.