My photographic portraits of artists from the fileds of literature, fine art, music, design, architecture and beyond. In times, where considerations in governing the public sphere – namely research, education, health care, communication, mobility, and politics, are more and more exclusively economic, art and culture persist in pointing our attention in a different direction. I am interested both in the people doing the pointing and the direction, they are pointing in.
My collaborations are with (in alphabetical order) Christian Bazant-Hegemark (painter), Martin Herchenröder (composer & organist), Rosina Huth (designer), Marcel Kawentel (author/drummer), Mirko Krause (architect), Karin Peschka (author), Jördis Tielsch (singer-songwriter), Marianne Vlaschits (artist), Beate Weiß (ceramics), Christof Windgätter (professor for design thoery).
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I shoot on location in labs, factories, and research facilities, working with genuine curiosity for the processes and the people running them.
With more than a decade of experience in industrial, science, and corporate photography, I bring a genuine understanding of the world I shoot in – earned through completing a PhD and years heading communications across research, business, and startup environments.
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 ceases to amaze me how, by creating a carefully designed context for the subject (or: by moving some furniture around), photography can condense the many facets of a personality into a single image.
Industrial, scientific, and corporate photographer. Based in Telgte near Münster, within close reach of Osnabrück, Bielefeld, and the Ruhr area. Staff photographer at ZESS/University of Siegen. Working for research institutions, universities, and business clients across NRW and beyond.
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