GLOBAL ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY Jul 2011

Arek Kempka lives his passion and in return he has been well rewarded. For more than 15 years he has been successfully working as a commercial photographer, mastering liquids and splashes in the process.

Arek’s unique approach and unconventional solutions have been appreciated by many international clients, including agencies such as McCann, Ogilvy, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam.

His studio is also at the very top-end of the industry. Clients can completely rely on Arek and his team during photo sessions and post production, with the highest standards consistently guaranteed.

Visit his website or contact Arek for more information.

The Blue Studios of Dieter Sieg and Volker Warning have been shooting for advertising, product, image brochure and website clients for more than 15 years. From their Hanover and Hamburg studios, as well as in carefully selected locations, the pair creates in close collaboration with clients new visual languages that have been precisely aligned with their products - from realistic-clear and technical-informative to elaborately styled and Zeitgeist-compatible.

Volker recently completed three cover stories for the VW Club Magazine as well as a campaign for reifen.com. Dieter shot a customised VW Golf for a Volkswagen brochure, with additional CGI processing in Blue Studios' post production facilities.

Photo series and CGI work has also been completed for clients including Continental, Ritz-Carlton, Sennheiser, Courtyard Marriott, Deutsche Messe AG, Bosch Rexroth, Akzo Nobel, Blohm + Voss and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

Dieter received a prize from the American Quarter Horse Association for his calendar work and was short-listed for the German Agricultural Marketing Award. Volker published a very successful landscape photography coffee-table book and for Madsack photographed for the second time a fine art calendar entitled "Poetry of Landscape / Lyrik einer Landschaft."

As a self proclaimed “non-purist”, Caesar Lima's photography calls to mind imagery that is just outside of the box. With a Bachelors of Arts in Advertising, Caesar has always had an eye for the creative, and with a passion and drive to depict unusual, even surreal images, his photography always evokes emotion.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Caesar has been nominated as one of Luezer's Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide.

Caesar has received multiple accolades and awards, including 2009/10 IPA Awards, 2010 PX3 in Paris, 2009 Addy Awards, 2009 Asuka Awards, 2008 Spider Award, 2007 Create Award, and many more.

"I was born in a town called Orkanger in Norway, the land of the northern lights and long winters. This is where I draw a lot of my inspiration from, with its incredibly dramatic scenery.

"After initially studying fashion for four years, I travelled the world for a year, eventually landing in Brazil. The warmth and sensuality of its culture and people had an immense impact on me, and I made it my home for several years. I learned Portuguese and discovered my own passion for photography, which eventually led me to San Francisco to study at the Academy of Art University.

"After graduation, I assisted various photographers and started pursuing stock and commercial work. In the past decade I have created high-end image collections for stock, and some of my clients include Gilead, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Vodafone, AT&T, and Warner Bros, while my work has appeared in prestigious photo publications such as Communication Arts, PDN, Graphis, APA Shows, and Graphic Design USA. Once a year the northern winds call upon me and I go back home and visit Norway, to feel the northern breeze and see the midnight sun."

Paolo Cecchin was born in Turin and has always wanted to be a painter. He prefers to construct his images rather than to size them, starting with a blank canvas where light is allowed to tell the story through contrast and shadow.

Paolo's fascination with light comes from his love of nature. Being a photographer
gives him a way to reconcile his passions for creativity, energy, adventure and storytelling.

Clients include Alfa Romeo, Annapurna Cachemire, Arena, Artsana, Barclays, Barilla, Beretta, Burger King, Campari, Ferrari, Ferrero, Fiat, Geox, Henkel, Hyundai, Iveco, Lancia, Lavazza, Mitsubishi, Nestlé, Nissan, Orogel, Regione Piemonte, Sanson, Sony Ericsson and Volkswagen.

Eolo Perfido was born in Cognac, France in 1972. He lives in Rome and works all over the world. Photography arrived quite late in Eolo's life, but fortunately passions are timeless and so at 28 he took up the camera and has not looked back. "To take pictures has become something that goes beyond the simple realisation of images and has deeply changed my way of experiencing life and relating to others."

Over recent years Eolo has worked for several international agencies and clients including JWT, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBDO, Corbis, Pepsi Cola, Kraft, Gatorade, Novartis, Lavazza and Sky Television. His images have appeared in many magazines and journals such as The New York Times, Communication Arts, Panorama First, Vision, Vogue Russia, GQ Russia, L'Espresso and Computer Arts, to name but a few.

In recent years Eolo has also assisted Steve McCurry on several of his shoots in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

Garrigosa Studio specialises in people, animals, landscape, still life and cars, working for advertising agencies including Jung von Matt, Atletico Interncional, BBDO, DDB, Euro RSCG, Grey, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, and many more.

Clients include Aprilia, Audi, Coca-Cola, Honda, Lavazza, Mango Fashion, Nike, Migros, Movistar, Ramazotti, Skoda and Seat, amongst many others.

Garrigosa Studio has been awarded in 200 Best AD Photographers Worldwide, Cannes Lions, ADC Gold, Lux Award, Sol Festival, Fiap, Epica and New York Festival.

The company is represented in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by PAM-Mirjam Böhm.

Gianluca Giannone is a Milan-based photographer who developed his expertise while assisting renowned European and American photographers. He has worked around the world on editorials and advertising campaigns for clients including Police (Bruce Willis, George Clooney and David Beckham), Marlboro (Max Biaggi), Killer Loop (Valentino Rossi), Lotto, Sergio Tacchini, Diadora, Murphy and Nye. Gianluca is specialised in advertising, on-location and studio portraits, architecture, landscapes and sports photography.

He has shot editorials for magazines including GQ Italy, Saveur USA, Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveller, Psychologies Italy, Style-Corriere della Sera and Riders Italian Magazine. He has also completed advertising campaigns for Credem Bank, Campagnolo, Vodafone, Bayer, Novartis, Fiat, Peroni and Gillette with some of the world's leading advertising agencies, including Leo Burnett, Republic-Publicis, DLV-DDBO, JWT-RMG Connect, United 1861 and Sudler & Hennessey.

Gianluca combines different techniques and styles to unveil new points of view and interpretations of the reality that surrounds us. He has created a close-knit professional team and pays acute attention to providing relationships that produce the very best results.

Holger Puhl specialises in high-class still life photography.

Producing classic single-shots, multi-shot or CGI-based composition: the required motif determines the relevant technique.

Holger works for national agencies and direct clients throughout Europe.

Visit his website for more information.

Johann Sebastian Hänel specialises in people, architecture, large group portraits, sport and transportation photography. His combination of portraiture and architecture demonstrates a sensitive regard, giving his images a distinct emotional depth.

He has worked for international advertising agencies worldwide. Clients include Adidas, Mercedes-Benz, AEG, Coca-Cola, Continental, Fiat, Kodak, Nike, Sony, Vodafone, Volvo, EnBW, and many more.

Awards include 2009/10/11 Lürzer's Archive '200 Best AD Photographers Worldwide'; 2009 ADC Silver Adidas Football, TBWA Impossible Goalkeeper Petr Cech for VKF/Sales Promotion; 2007 ADC Gold Stern Football WM Magazine.

Johann is represented in german speaking countries by PAM - Mirjam Böhm.

Italian photographers Roberto Luzzitelli and Laura Danieli have been working together since establishing their Turin-based studio in 1985.

They have collaborated with famous advertising brands including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Artsana, Brevi, Ferrari, Ferrero, Fiat, Gancia, Giugiaro Design, Iveco, Juventus F.C., Jonhson&Jonhson, Lavazza, Martini&Rossi, New Holland, Nike, San Pellegrino, Sanson, Scottex, Seat, Sergio Tacchini, Suzuki, Swatch, Tissot, Toyota, Trussardi, and many more.

The pair has put together a highly qualified crew of shooting and post production experts. Specialised in every kind of advertising image, including food, kids, still life, beverage and automotive, Roberto and Laura are constantly searching for new ways of making communication.

Visit the website to see more of their portfolio.

Still life and product photographer Rich Begany brings a unique vision for colour and texture to his collaborations with clients. His energies in the studio are focused on creating images that elevate products to look vibrant and iconic.

In his advertising work he has collaborated with both in-house creative teams as well as agencies, including Roberts & Langer DDB, Draft FCB and Gotham Inc.

To discuss an upcoming project or request a portfolio, contact Majka Lamprecht at Traffic Creative Management.

San Francisco-based photographer Samantha Wolov (b. 1984) began her art career at the age of sixteen months when her mother would line the shower walls with paper and allow her to finger-paint murals in the bathtub, naked.  This love of art would eventually become a degree in Art History from American University in Washington, DC. The comfort with nudity would eventually become a brief-but-successful stint in erotic photography.

Wolov, a self-taught artist, now shoots fashion and beauty imagery for editorial clients like FantasticsMag, Glass Magazine, and San Francisco Magazine, among others.

She prefers a clean, elegant aesthetic with deliberate color palettes as reference to the great artists she had studied in school, while maintaining a suggestion of just the slightest taste of subtle eroticism.  Wolov sees herself as a "mad scientist" of sorts when developing stories, constantly drawing from the extensive visual vocabulary her unique background has afforded.

Sara Morris is a London based Still Life photographer. She works from her digitally equipped studio in Shoreditch.

Recent commissions have come from some of the top advertising agencies in London, DDB, BBH, McCann Erickson, JWT, W&K, Proximity. Clients include, Esso, KFC, P&G, John Lewis, and Mastercard.

Sara is represented by Clare Fletcher.

Steve Peixotto is an award-winning San Francisco-based photographer who has been shooting on location and in studio for advertising clients since 1998. His work can be seen in the advertising section of the current Communication Arts Photography Annual.

Steve’s ability to communicate the ideas and understand the needs of his clients has always earned him repeat business and word-of-mouth referrals. He gets along with everyone and always has an up-beat attitude. If the forecast is for a torrential downfall he has the crew show up anyway, just in case there’s a break in the weather.

Recent projects include Marriott, JW Marriott, Aramark Prison Services, Clipper Yachts, and LensCrafters. Steve speaks English and Spanish.

Visit the website to see more of Steve’s work.

Robert Przepiórka is a photographer and owner of STUDIO PUNKTUM. He graduated Photography Studies with Advertising Photography Diploma. His experience and technical background allows him for taking shooting of any object but his favorite subjects are bottles, glasses and drops on them, liquids, jewelery.

Robert is one of few in Poland who takes photos 360 degree. His clients are Swarovski, McCann, Euro RSCG, Young & Rubicam, Red 8, Walk the Line and many others.

Visit his website or contact Robert for more information.

Tom Dyczewski's fascination with photography began when he was only 10 years old. Eight years later, he published extensive coverage shot from the barricades during the 1991 Moscow coup. After studying Marketing and Management at the Warsaw School of Business, his career in advertising began in 1992 with a managerial position in the US with West Poland (Panorama Firm).

In 1995, Tom founded his own business and began a six-year collaboration with NoS Studio. He won first prize at the prestigious Kreatura 98 advertising awards and went on to form strong partnerships with leading agencies BBDO, McCann Erickson, Lowe GGK, DDB, Ogilvy and DraftFCB. Several of his ideas and strategies have been adopted by companies such as Lukas Bank, TP S.A., Plus GSM and Browary Tyskie.

In the digital era Tom returned to his greatest passion and founded a professional photography studio. He remains one of the most efficient and effective photographers when it comes to delivering a clear advertising message.

Wanelle Fitch has been one of the leading sports and portrait photographers of her field for more than 25 years. Wanelle shoots, directs, exhibits and publishes fine art and commercial photographic and video images globally. She has worked and owned studios in Manhattan, Sydney, Los Angeles and Orange County California. Her commercial clients include advertising, editorial, design, fashion, publishing and the recording industries. She has a Master of fine Art degree in photography from the Art Center College of Design where she has been teaching for the past decade. She has published 2 coffee table books on Interiors.

Some of her clients include Alterna Professional Hair Care, USB financial, Beckett Media, Baron Davis Clippers Basketball, Vogue Sydney, Robb Report Magazine, Hill Holiday, Ultimate MMA, Fit & Famous, Coogi Sportswear, The Warner Group Architects, Helen Kaminski, Nova Development, Nike Swimwear, LA Times, Shape Magazine, Cartier for Seven magazine, FHP Healthcare advertising and commercial TV campaign, BMG Music, Sterling/Chapelle Publishing, Sydney International Airport, and Entrepreneur Magazine.