For my photo project At Work, I visited the workshop of master organ builder Mathias Mebold in Siegen-Breitenbach. Instrument making is always fascinating for me, but organ building is special as there are so many different materials to work with: metal for the pipes, leather for the bellows and wood for the organ itself. For the portrait, we chose the tuning of the pipes. At the end there even was a little time left for some still lifes of tools.
With more than a decade of experience, I strengthen the visual identity of my clients through industrial, academic, and corporate photography.
I also headed communications departments in both the corporate and the academic world and this background enables me to get you the visuals you need – every time!
What I enjoy about product photography is that through spending time with an object that otherwise gets overlooked as a mere utility, beauty can be found in unexpected places.
Making the extraordinary within the ordinary visible for others always is a very exciting process.
In the words of Arnold Newman, Portrait photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
It never seizes to amaze me how, by moving some furniture around and thus creating a carefully designed context for the subject, photography can condense the many facets of a personality into a still image.
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