PHOTOGRAPHERS' AGENTS Jun 2009

Latest news from the Anja Wiroth Agency:

• Berlin-based celebrity photographer, Olaf Heine, shot a catalogue for BMW along with jobs for Nike, Eco Disc and Deutsche Grammophon.
• Vienna-based Bernhard Wolff shot the recent 'Sex' cover of Prinz Magazine.
• Berlin-based rising star, Norman Konrad, shot a campaign for BE Berlin through agency fischerAppelt Furore, Hamburg. Other campaigns for the agency Scholz & Friends will be released shortly. Editorial work included a cover for Neon Magazine and editorials for 11 Freunde and Spex.
• Paris-based car and advertising photographer, Cedric Delsaux, shot a campaign for Viking.
• Murat Aslan shot a campaign for Deichmann at Spreegraphen Studios, Berlin, with the support of AW Services through agency Grey, Dusseldorf.
• Hamburg-based still life photographer, Dirk Velimsky, shot a campaign for Markt.de, through agency Heimat Berlin.
• A recent arrival at the Anja Wiroth Agency, Marcus Albert specialises in young fashionable lifestyle photography.

Argentinafoto is the first full service photography production company in Buenos Aires. The company was founded in 2008 by partners Argentinacine and Juan Mathé and has since attracted clients from around the world who rely on Argentinafoto for all of their production needs.

Argentinafoto represents a diverse group of image makers, from very talented emerging photographers to the most established names in the Latin American industry. The company works closely with leading advertising agencies and magazines to create the perfect conditions for their images.

Clients include Nike, BMW, Fiat, Powerade, Coca-Cola, Wella, Nestle, Personal, Mentos, Prime, Secret, and many other major brands.

Photographers: Raul de Chapeaurouge, Marcelo Setton, Marcos Lopez, Dino Bruzzone, Lucila Blumecweig, Juan Mathé, and most recently Chino Zavalia.

Recent campaigns from the Carolyn Trayler Agency include:

• Patrice de Villiers: Flora for BBH, McDonald's for TBWA Paris, Marks & Spencer for RKCR/Y&R and Meat Standards Agency for TBWA London.
• Tim Macpherson: TreeHouse/Talk Talk for CHI, Alli for WCRS, Alli for Partners Andrews Aldridge and Honda (in-house).
• Peter Lippmann: Christian Louboutin (in-house) and Nespresso for MRM Worldwide.
• Stuart Hall: Seat for Atletico International.
• Jasper White: Guardian Jobs (Direct) and L&G for Smith & Milton.
• Marcel Christ: Nike for Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam, Dior (in-house), and Coca-Cola for Wieden & Kennedy.
• Dragan: Avon for Publicis Group Brasil, PlayStation for Ogivly Dubai and PlayStation for TBWA London.
• Simon Mills, aka one half of The Mills Twins, has been busy directing his own films.

Considered Belgium's leading photographers' agency, Claudia Trucco represents a selection of professional photographers specialised in fashion and advertising.

Established 11 years ago, the agency has gained a significant position in the international market, focusing on fields such as fashion, beauty, landscape, car and food photography.

The agency provides full service production for its photographers and clients.

Visit the agency's website for more information.

Gudrun Hamann Photography & Production is a Hamburg-based photo production company and leading agency for fashion photographers.

With a focus on fashion photography, the company represents Sandra Weimar, Barbara Maurer, Torsten Ruppert, Wolfgang Stauber, and Alexander Frank.

Clients also rely on Gudrun Hamann Photography & Production for casting and model booking for women, men, lingerie, kids and animal productions, as well as photo shoot organisation,

With 15 years of experience and close partnerships with modelling agencies, hair and make-up artists, stylists, foreign production companies and skilled photographers, Gudrun Hamann Photography & Production is a solid full service partner for photo productions anywhere in the world.

KS Reps is a Chicago-based company headed by Katie Swanson. Katie is inspired by her photographers as people and artists.

The company represents:

• Brad Feinknopf, architectural, interiors and exteriors. Brad has wonderful client relationships with PRISM Marketing, Humana and architects like Rafael Vinoly, Charles Gwathmey and Studios Architecture. His work has been published in Architectural Record, Metropolis, PDN, Architecture Digest, VM+SD, Time, Fast Company, Book, USA Today and Sports Illustrated.
• Brian Wetzstein, food, beverage and liquids. Brian specialises in both advertising and editorial assignments. Clients include McDonald's, Quaker, Bunn, Pil and Weeks Publishing. He creates beautifully styled and imaginative work.
• Marc Hauser, portraits and celebrity. Marc has the gift of capturing any type of person. He puts people at ease, creating dynamic poses and evocative expressions. Filling his frames with engaged subjects, Marc eliminates the need for complex props and backgrounds. He shot the portraits for CA's 1987 ad campaign, honoured in the 2009 50th anniversary issue of Communication Arts: 50 Years of Excellence.

Marion Eckhardt Hamburg represents internationally renowned photographers:

• Wolfgang Pohn shot for Armani by Wolford in Milan, a fashion feature for Diva magazine on location in the deserts of Oman, and the new catalogue for Sportsalm in Kitzbühl.
• Bruce Soyez-Bernard shot an image for Tova published as a poster for Schwarzkopf's 111 year anniversary, as well as a range of beauty editorials.
• Christian Steinhausen shot Megan Fox for Zeitmagazin at the Ritz Hotel in Berlin and completed a range of pictures for Vattenfall, shot in several locations around Berlin.
• Sven Görlich shot for Nestea Vitao between China and South Africa, and shot Jacobs Coffee and Deit Lemonade, also in South Africa. Sven is currently in Lljubeljana shooting for Braun Silk Epil.
• Harry Vorsteher shot for Babylis with model Janina Delia Schmidt who finished 2nd in Germany's Next Top Model 2008 contest.
• Valéry Kloubert recently returned from Portugal where he shot portraits of the „Paris Dakar Rallye“ Stars during the „Rally Transiberico“.
• Gabor Geissler is currently preparing an AirBerlin shoot between Dusseldorf and Munich airports. He is also displaying the ultimate patience shooting cats and dogs for a pet food company.

With a team of 10 international creative photographers specialising in advertising,
MM Photographes is a Paris-based photographers' agency founded three years ago by  Muriel Moreau.

MM Photographes represents: Alain Cornu, Eric de Cort, Anthony Bernier and Marie-Sophie Leturcq, Pascal Ribes, Jean-Paul Goffard, John DK, Jan Steinhilber, Titus Lacoste and David Meignan.

Visit the MM Photographes website for more information.

Norma Jean Markus has been in the business of representing photographers for over 15 years. She began her career in advertising as a head art buyer for a major global ad agency, and after four years started her own company as the exclusive worldwide print agent for one of the most successful commercial photographers at the time.

Gradually, Norma Jean grew the agency which now includes 12 photographers: Tina Barney, Jessica Dimmock, Jens Honore, Christopher Jones, Dana Lixenberg, Sherrie Nickol, Michael James O'Brien, Tanit Sakakini, Type A, Jasper White and Neil Winokur.  

Each of the agency's photographers is known for having their own unique and recognisable vision. Between them, they have published over 17 books, travelled to nearly every corner of the world to pursue personal work, and have produced countless images for commercial clients worldwide.

The Norma Jean Markus agency strongly believes in the ability of an audience to recognise the value of good work and the role it plays in the process of producing standout advertising.

Pavleye Artist Management is a full service creative shop fulfilling every high-end production and post production requirement.

Based in Prague, Pavleye offers fully tailored photo production and post production services to national and international clients. The company has assembled the best available talent, from top photographers to leading post production artists, to ensure ingenuity, reliability and creativity in every project, however big or small.

Flexibility, a clear understanding of all aspects of advertising and fashion shoots, and exceptional relationships with leading modelling agencies are just a few of the reasons why artists like Mario Testino and Walter Chin, and clients such as Harvey Nichols and Eristoff have chosen Pavleye for their photo production needs.

Pavleye provides full production coordination, budget management, casting, location scouting, daylight studio facilities, prop rental, set design, fashion styling, hair and make-up, equipment rental, on-site coordination, post production, and any other requirements to ensure a seamless and successful production.

Browse the online portfolio for examples of the company's work. New talents include: Anna Mrazek Kovacicf, fashion; Locomotiv, advertising; Filip Slapal, architecture and hotels; Matus Toth, fashion and stills.

Pavleye Artist Management will be joining Le Book Berlin edition 2009.

PRETTYBIRD is a creative think tank that provides clients with distinct and visionary work across the ever-evolving entertainment and branding landscapes. The company now represents photographers for all print media in addition to being a full-service production company representing directors for commercials, music videos, film, TV, interactive and web medias.

Photographing, directing and producing for beauty, celebrity, fashion, food, lifestyle, music, portrait, product and sports, clients range from Adidas to Covergirl, Levi's to MTV, Snickers to Volkswagen.   

In April, PRETTYBIRD hosted a photo-exhibit featuring its very own photographers in the first annual 'Month of Photography' show in Los Angeles (MOPLA), a city-wide celebration of photography.

Firmly established as one of London's favourite photographic agencies, Process provides top photographic talent and production resources to clients worldwide.

The company's newly launched website continues to get masses of traffic; it has been blogged, twittered and talked about all over town, with clients loving the ease and functionality. Art buyers can also download images directly from the site.

Process represents Bill Robinson (lifestyle, people, kids), Gareth Sambidge (food, still, advertising, editorial), Louisa Parry (still life, advertising, editorial), Matthew Murray (people, places, advertising, editorial), Simon Thorpe (landscapes, portraits, advertising), and Ruud Baan (people, sports, fashion, advertising editorial).

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Latest news from Sue Allatt photographers:

• Tif Hunter has had an extremely busy year to-date. Following his successful exhibition 'Cars in a White Room', he shot an interactive campaign for McDonald's through Leo Burnett that can currently be seen and interacted with at Piccadilly Circus. Last month saw Tif shoot a global campaign for Teflon through DCH and also travel to Brazil to shoot luxury private jets for Embraer.
• Pete Seaward has spent the last six weeks travelling between Australia, India, China, Bali and Europe shooting the new global campaign for Singapore Airlines through TBWA Singapore. He followed this with trips to Malaysia to shoot for Four Season Resorts and St Petersburg to shoot for Lonely Planet.
• Amelia Troubridge has been as busy as ever, shooting Mickey Rourke for Rolling Stone Magazine, David Cameron for Time, Tallie and Lola Lennox for Vanity Fair Italy, and a feature for the Saturday Times on Eva Yerbabuena, regarded as one of the most important female dancers/choreographers in modern flamenco. April saw Amelia in Spain shooting Rhys Ifans on the set of his latest film, 'Mr Nice'.
• Nigel Parry has just shot the new campaign for Moet & Chandon, featuring Emily Blunt, Hugh Dancy and Zoe Saldana. He followed this with a new campaign for Hamilton Watches featuring Harrison Ford, and shot Woody Allan and Larry David for The New York Times Magazine. Last month saw Nigel shoot Angelina Jolie, as well as a new campaign for Chase Bank.

TMAR, Inc. has been kept busy despite the global recession.

Recent projects include:

• Andric: AT&T International, Chick-fil-A, FlexPen, Novo Nordisk and SYFY.
• Igor Panitz: BMW Z4.
• Simon Puschmann: Mobil One.
• LSD: Vicks.
• Frank Uyttenhove: Intel.
• Mark King: Cumberland Furniture.

Visit the website for more information.

Xing-Art Munich represents unique and inspirational photographers and illustrators worldwide. Aside from full service production packages the company provides technical proficiency guaranteed by a high quality professional team. Artistic competence is assured through its artists' wealth of experience and wide ranging skills.

Xing provides clients with the security of a professional service coupled with strong corporate values, interpreted as standard-setting quality, dependable reliability, efficient promptness and the utmost dedication.

Xing-Art represents:

• Photographers - Matthias Aletsee, Jaap van den Beukel, Eric Cuvillier, Gary Engel, Christian Höhn, Jens Ihnken, Karsten Koch, Alexander Fischer.
• Illustrators - Anton Atzenhofer, Ruth Botzenhardt, Maria Cardelli, Jan Thüring, Dorothée von der Osten.

Recent work includes: Bruno Banani, Barutti, Basler, BMW, Bosch, Cecil, Daimler AG, Esselte Leitz, Flughafen Munchen, Lufthansa Cargo, Kia, Mercedes, MTU, Otto, Peugeot, Sportscheck, Schwarzkopf/Henkel, Siemens, TUI, Union Investment.