cologne issue 585
Mar 2016
Mike Christian
Cologne - Still Life, Industrial, Interior & Exterior Photographers
Mike Christian has been working as a professional photographer for over 30 years. He began his career shooting cars on location and in the studio for major companies such as Land Rover, Nissan, Fiat, Renault, Mazda, Ford and many others.
Building on this experience, Mike created a new corporate visual language for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG that characterised for over a decade the image of HDM. A large amount of effort went into portraying their impressive machines as individual, sculptural pieces of art.
This led Mike to architectural photography with the intent of showing great detail in very high resolution, photographing different light situations and taking the best from each layer to produce an image that shows the complexity of the Print Media Academy.
Mike has also worked for companies including Melitta, Fissler, ROWA, Sharp and Uniroyal, as well as with artists, museums and art galleries. He now lives and works in an old factory building that has been turned into a charming studio.