Photographer #429: Christoph Bangert

Christoph Bangert, 1978, Germany, is a photojournalist based in Switzerland who studied photography at the Fachhochschule in Dortmund and at the International Center of Photography in New York. He has traveled extensively to countries as Japan, Chad, Lebanon, Nigeria and Palestine for his photography. In Pakistan he covered the story of the cold winter after the earthquake hit in 2005. In 2007 he released two monographs. Travel Notes contains images from a 22,000 mile car trip he made from Argentina to New York in 2002. IRAQ: The Space Between shows the work he did in 2005 and 2006 in Iraq on assignment for the New York Times. In the same year he was also chosen for the Joop Swart Masterclass. His images have appeared in numerous publications as Stern, Time, Newsweek and GEO. Currently Christoph is working on a book that will show the images of a 14 month trip in 2007 and 2008 through 36 African countries with a Land Rover. He was exhausted from all the things he in the years before and needed a break to become "a human being again." The following images come from journeys to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Website: www.christophbangert.com

Photographer #422: Cathleen Naundorf

Cathleen Naundorf, 1968, Germany, is a fashion and fine-art photographer. Her career started as a photo assistant in New York, Singapore and Paris. In 1993 she started traveling to countries as Mongolia, Siberia and Brazil. The pictures made over the years had been published in eight publications of large publishers. In 1997 she started photographing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung with a fashion page of her own. Seven years ago she visited Jean-Paul Gaultier to ask him to lend one or two dresses to photograph. He was so impressed by the work that he gave her access to his entire collection. Since then she has been shooting for Gaultier, Dior, Lacroix, Chanel, Elle Saab and Valentino. She exclusively works on large format camera's (4x5" and 8x10") using polaroid films. She is also granted free choice of models, locations and hair and make-up designers. A publication of her haute couture series is scheduled in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at several venues in Europe and the USA. The following images come from her portfolio's Fashion - B&W, Fashion - Color and Vs- Magazine - 2011.

Website: www.cathleennaundorf.com

Photographer #360: Torsten Warmuth

Torsten Warmuth, 1968, is a German experimental, fine-art photographer who received a degree in Natural Science and a doctorate at the University of Kassel. In 1996, after having worked for a US mathematics software producer he decides to devote himself exclusively to photography. Within his extensive portfolio we find works using the double exposure technique. For most of his images he uses a large format camera. His series Belle de Nuit contains work surrounding Berlin's nightlife. While making this series he experimented with multiple toning, producing unique works that give the prints a heightened plastic effect which become Silver Paintings. From 2010 onwards, the produced negatives have become more of a raw material that he works on creating pictorial compositions. By hand he creates multi-toned prints on gelatin silver paper.  The following images come from the series Belle de Nuit, Against the Flow and It's a Man's World.

Website: www.torsten-warmuth.de

Photographer #352: Anne Lass

Anne Lass, 1978, Germany/Denmark, studied Communication Design at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Since 2004 she has been working on her project Wandeln. The images for the ongoing project have been taken throughout Europe, Australia and the USA. The landscape photographs constitute small stories within a larger story concerning nature as a displaced and estranged object. In her ongoing project Schwinden she documents places that are dissolving due to climate change and intense building construction on the coastal line, reflecting on the limits of our belief in the "manageability" of our natural surroundings. Anne has had a vast amount of group exhibitions throughout the world and several solo exhibitions in Germany, Danmark and the United States. She has also been featured in numerous publications. The following images come from the series Wandeln, Milwaukee Avenue and Schwinden.

Website: www.annelass.de

Photographer #344: Martin Klimas

Martin Klimas, 1971, Germany, is a still-life photographer who captures motion. He studied Visual Communications and Photography at the Fachhochshule in Düsseldorf. In his personal work he does not use photoshop. He uses analog technology for his visually complex photographs capturing the moment between being whole and completely broken. In complete darkness he dropped porcelain figures, the sound of the objects hitting the floor triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second. For his work with flowers and vases he used the same technique, however it is the sound of a projectile, shot by Klimas, hitting the vase that sets off the flash. He is capable of capturing a moment we cannot see with the human eye. Even though catastrophy is happening in his large scale images, they are peaceful, silent and aesthetically beautiful. The following images come from the series Flowervases, Porcelain Figurines and Flying Birds.

Website: www.martin-klimas.de

Photographer #288: Anna Skladmann

Anna Skladmann, 1986, Germany, is a young documentary photographer who lives and works between New York and Moscow. She focused on several projects in Russia. Recently her book Little Adults was released, a collection of portraits of priviliged children in Russia. These Russian kids belong to the "nouveau riche" and grow up surrounded by money. They are considered to become the next elite class of the post-communist country, putting pressure on them to become achievers. In a country where the gap between rich and poor is so large, it starts to raise questions about the notion of normality. Anna photographed the children that behave like little adults in their own surroundings and clothes. The following images come from her personal series Little Adults, Sochi and Portraits.

Website: www.annaskladmann.com

Photographer #277: Daniel Sannwald

Daniel Sannwald, 1979, Germany, is a surreal and experimental fashion photographer. He studied at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. Daniel does not limit himself when making images, nor does he abide to the rules of photography. He might shoot digital or analogue, change his end results with photoshop or just plain scissors and glue, make a collage or add bizarre objects on the set. He might go over the top with an image and keep it simple and clean with the next. Daniel keeps all options open and decided to use all the options available. The images he produces are fantastical, often surreal and innovative. His cinematographic photographs have been published in magazines as Dazed & Confused, i-D and Vogue Homme. Recently his book Pluton & Charon was released covering fashion work from the last five years. The following images come from his portfolio.

Website: www.danielsannwald.com

Photographer #243: Straulino

Alexander Straulino, 1973, Germany, better known just as Straulino, is a beauty photographer who lives and works in Berlin. In his images the models become sculptures with rich colours. He is open to experimentation and often closes in on body parts as the eyes or the lips. He adds a whiff of eroticism in his photographs. The women in Straulino's images become larger than life and have an outer-worldly quality to them. In 2006 he released the book Playtime and in 2011 his book Straulino N°2 came out. His images have been published in numerous magazines as Another Magazine, Russian and German Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Amongst his clients are Douglas, Wella and Schweppes. The following images come from the portfolio's Beauty Three, Beauty Two and Beauty One.

Website: www.straulino.com

Photographer #229: Albrecht Tübke

Albrecht Tübke, 1971, Germany, is a portrait photographer that also focuses on landscapes and objects. Most of his portraits are, whether taken of fashionable ladies in the streets of Italy, citizens of Europe and the US or the inhabitants of a small town called Dalliendorf, taken with the portrayed comletely in the frame, looking into the camera. His series Caves consists of portraits, objects, tins and landscapes. For more than a year Tübke went to the Marble Quarries in Carrara, Toscany. He was fascinated by the strange objects, the wonderful landscapes and the interesting people working there. Albrecht has exhibited extensively throughout the world. The following images come from Citizens, Caves and Heads.

Website: www.tuebke.info

Photographer #227: Meike Nixdorf

Meike Nixdorf, 1976, Germany, is a landscape photographer and video artist. She was educated in photography and video at the International Center of Photography in New York. The photographs in her series The Point of View tell stories about different places she visited between 2006 and 2009. She often photographs the same places but with slight changes as framing or the angle at which an image is taken. Besides her focus on her own personal work Meike joined forces with retoucher and photographer Grit Hackenberg in 2008 photographing architecture, landscapes and interiors. The following images come from Photographs I and II of the series The Point of View and from her portfolio In the Meantime.

Website: www.meikenixdorf.com

Photographer #222: Thomas Wrede

Thomas Wrede, 1963, Germany, released his book Anywhere in 2010. It contains images of the series Real Landscapes and Seascapes. In Real Landscapes Wrede plays with reality and perspectives. The large printed images show houses or cars in idealistic yet impossible landscapes. He achieves these mind triggering results with the use of models and a large format camera. A year earlier he released the book Manhattan / Picture Worlds in which he photographs billboards in a clever way, again playing with the ratios. A dialogue evolves between the billboards and their surroundings. The following images come from the series Real Landscapes, Am Meer / Seascapes and Small Worlds.

Website: www.thomas-wrede.de

Photographer #216: Timm Kölln

Timm Kölln, 1976, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. For many years he has been following cycling races as the Tour the France, Paris - Roubaix and the Giro d'Italia. He is not your ordinary sports photographer, unlike his colleagues that photograph and register the various races with digital equipment, Timm still shoots everything on film. He sees cycling as an aesthetic sport and brings that back in his, mostly black and white, photography. In 2010 he released his book The Peloton. It contains strong images of the riders several seconds after they crossed the finish line. The photographs from the series Lo Stelvio are made with a pinhole camera. The following images come from the portfolio's Dolomiti, The Peloton and Lo Stelvio.

Website: www.timmkoelln.com

Photographer #208: Jörn Vanhöfen

Jörn Vanhöfen, 1961, Germany, is a landscape photographer. He will be releasing his book Aftermath with images from his Disaster series in April 2011. In 2009 he released the book Südafrikas Küste (South Africa's Coast). His large prints have something that makes the viewer uncomfortable and question reality. Jörn plays with the elements such as wind, snow, light and carefully chooses perspectives gaining tension in the photographs. Jörn has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, but also had several overseas exhibitions. He has been published in various catalogues. In 2000 he released the book Die Elbe (The Elbe River). The following images come from the series Disaster, Südafrika and Elbe.

Website: www.joernvanhoefen.de

Photographer #202: Karen Knorr

Karen Knorr, 1954, Germany, was raised in Puerto Rico. Her series India Song consists of two elements. The locations have been shot with a large format analogue camera, the live animals with a digital camera. The two images are combined to create one image that blurs our perception of reality and fiction. In her series Fables she draws our attention to animal behaviour and it's relationship to human behaviour and shortcomings. In most of the recent series by Karen, she uses museums, palaces or other cultural places as settings for her photography. The following images come from India Song, Muses and Majas and Fables (Château Chambord).

Website: www.karenknorr.com

Photographer #194: Sonja Braas

Sonja Braas, 1968, Germany, lives and works in New York. In her series The Quiet of Dissolution Sonja shows us various natural catastrophes, but in a way that we have never seen before. The viewer begins to wonder how she got so close to the disasters and how she continuously get's a certain serenity in her photographs. Sonja actually builds the scenes herself in a studio as idealized models of reality. In her series You Are Here she took pictures of zoological gardens and natural science museums and put them alongside images of real landscapes. This confuses the viewer when attempting to figure out what is real and what is not. The following images come from the series The Quiet of Dissolution, Forces and You Are Here.

Website: www.sonjabraas.com

Photographer #177: Diana Scherer

Diana Scherer, 1971, Germany, works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a conceptual artist who uses various disciplines to achieve her images. In the last few years she has done several projects focussing on flowers in various forms. Flowers that were painted on cups resulted in a large collection of photographs combined to make one piece. Afterwards this evolved into the series flowerfield 2009, where the cups were used to grow flowers. Her work has been featured in numerous photography magazines. The following images come from the projects Flowerfield 2009, Frauen and Mädchen.

Website: www.dianascherer.nl

Photographer #161: Olaf Martens

Olaf Martens, 1963, Germany, has an impressive body of work. He is a fashion and nudes photographer that has found a way to merge various styles of photography into one. His staged photographs have a documentary feel to them. Olaf's images are playful, classy and contain humour. He has been in an amazing amount of solo and group exhibitions worldwide  The following images come from his portfolio's Surface, InterReal and Home Sweet Home.

Website: www.olaf-martens.de