Christa Klubert

Julia Fullerton-Battens neue Arbeiten sind im Rahmen eines Projektes von „The Impossible Project“entstanden. Diese neuen Fotografien entführen den Betrachter in eine fazinierende Welt, wo scharfe Formen und klare Konturen so gut wie nicht existent sind. Gerade das lässt dem Betrachter viel Raum für Fantasie und macht das Betrachten dieser Arbeiten zu einem besondern Vergnügen.
 
Was war dein erster Schnappschuss?
Ein Foto meiner Kinder und Nichten in unserem Garten an einem sonnigen Tag.
 
Wie ist deine Motividee entstanden?
Ich liebe die stark begrenzte Tiefenschärfe, die Polaroid Kameras bieten
und dachte mir, es wäre spaßig Miniaturmenschen merkwürdige Dinge machen zu lassen.
 
Bist du zu frieden mit dem Ergebnis?
Ich habe festgestellt, dass das Arbeiten mit Polaroid-Material „draufhalten und verfehlen“ bedeutet.
I habe die Bilder absichtlich simpel und ordentlich gehalten, weil man ansonsten nicht richtig sehen
kann was darauf passiert. Es ist noch ausbaufähig...
 
Was kommt als nächstes?
Ich warte auf das nachgebesserte Material und werde dann noch mehr Fotos schießen.
Oh, und ich ich muss noch eine SX 70 Kamera kaufen.

Mathias Baumann präsentiert eine neue Webseite, die definitiv einen Besuch wert ist. Neben erst kürzlich fertig gestellten Arbeiten, bietet die Seite einen umfassenden Überblick über Baumanns gesamtes Schaffen. Fotografien von Landscapes, Portraits, Architektur und Fahrzeugen bis hin zu ganzen Serien über Mond- oder Wohnwagenlandschaften, zeigen die Vielschichtigkeit in der Arbeit des Düsseldorfer Fotografen. Zusätzlich zu dem umfassenden Bilderfundus bietet die Seite einen guten Überblick über eine umfangreiche Kundenliste.
 
www.mathias-baumann.com

Tillmann Franzen zeigt auf seiner Homepage eine große Auswahl freier Arbeiten, sowie etlicher Auftragsarbeiten. Die Bandbreite seines Könnens ist dabei übersichtlich in Bereiche gegliedert hinter denen sich manchmal ganze Geschichten verbergen. Der Besuch der Homepage verführt dazu sich durch diese Geschichten zu klicken, ganz egal ob es sich um Auftragsarbeiten oder eigene Projekte handelt.
 
www.tillmannfranzen.com

Gregor Hohenbergs Internetpräsenz lässt keinen Zweifel offen wofür die Fotografie des Berliners steht: Zahlreiche Arbeiten aus dem Fashion Bereich ebenso wie Interiors und Portraits lassen sich dort entdecken. Bei Letzterem muss wohl besonders das herausragende Portrait von Margot Käßmann für die ZEIT erwähnt werden. Aber auch sonst finden sich beim Durchstöbern der minimalistisch gehaltenen Webseite einige bekannte Gesichter aus dem Bereich der Populärkultur wieder.
 
www.gregor-hohenberg.com

ZEITGEIST
 
We are glad that Gregor Hohenberg reached a journalistic peak with his photograph of Margot Käßmann, besides his succsessful work as a fashion photographer. ZEITmagazin No.11 reported on this:
 
A Dream Career
Since 1999 we have shown every week in our section "I Have a Dream" a prominent person with closed eyes, Margot Käßmann's "Dream" portrait, published in ZEITmagazin on 7th January 2010, has now become the icon of her resignation: The picture by the Berlin photographer, Gregor Hohenberg, made it to the front pages of WELT, FAS and SPIEGEL.
At the time, Margot Käßmann said in her "Dream" statement: "I dream of sometime being able to retreat more into private life again"

A series of photographs and image diaries depicting different sports and sportspeople set against the urban backdrop of London.
With the 2012 Olympics fast approaching and the huge investment in infrastructure starting to take shape around the capital, this project aims to focus on regular Londoners and how the stark contrasts of the capital’s landscape provides unique and sometimes unexpected follies for their chosen sport.
This project is a personal project from photographer Dylan Collard and Matt Cottis of IY A Studio. If you like to know more just follow the link: http://sportcitylondon.co.uk/

Interview with Dylan Collard:
Hi Dylan, we would like to get some inside story to your shooting for Pfizer.
Pfizer has a high reputation and proves to be a responsible company. What impression do you have?
DC: When we were approached to do the "Real Danger" Pfizer commission one thing sprung to mind and that was the "Rat" TV commercial which had caused quite a stir in the Uk last year. The TV commercial gave me a good indication that Pfizer weren't afraid of using strong and shocking imagery in their advertising. I think this is sometime a reflection of the size and power of an organisation confident enough to take bigger risks than some of its competitors. Bear in mind this campaign is fronted by Pfizer but that also involved other organisations like the Medical And Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britian, The Patients Association and H.E.A.R.T UK. It seems to be an issue that is of concern to not just Pfizer alone.
 
The campaign feels very cold and serious. How did this happen?
DC: The message was about the dangers of buying drugs online so it was a serious message from the start. It´s something I'd read was a fairly recent phenomenon that I had thought was more apparent in poorer countries. Pfizer wanted to shock people in the UK to realize that it is effecting everyone now. The Creative Director (Andrew Spurgeon) wanted the ads to have a "horror" narrative about them, the blunt reality of what can happen if you buy drugs from unreliable sources . He wanted a feeling of loss, of the cold, stark process of the post mortem, of death. He wanted shocking Ads and the client was brave enough to go with the idea.
 
Where did you shoot? Setdesign or real location?
DC: The shoot was in a real, but disused hospital near London. We had recce'd lots of working mortuaries which was a weird but very interesting experience. The most striking thing about a morgue is the equipment used to deal with the "guests". Everything is without comfort, there's a complete absence of form its all about function, its all stainless steal tops, hoses for washing down and things that cut, prise, poke and prod!! A morgue is a cold, harsh environment to inspire a cold, harsh shoot.
 
Let us talk about Roadkill Toys now. Is a very funny toy production company with a real twist. Right?
DC: Roadkill Toys is a small toy company started by Art Director Adam Arber who I'd shot the VNOK campaign for last year. He's been producing the Roadkill toys for a few years now as a sideline to his day job. He'd made a short film / commercial a couple of years ago which was very successful and was shooting another film to promote his new "Grind" Rabbit toy. He asked me to go along and shoot alongside the film crew to see what stills we could get out of the shoot.
 
How did it feel to have such different clients ( Pfizer and Roaskill Toys )?
DC: Its good, very different clients that require very different approaches. Pfizer is a huge international company and the shoot required lots of production, preparation, crew, lighting, time etc and was great fun to do, in fact one of my favorite commissions so far. Roadkill is the exact opposite, a small, local business having to work to the minimum budget possible, 1 assistant, no lighting, no time but great fun as well, also one of my fave commissions in that it was so open in the briefing.
 
Do they have something in commune?
DC: Both wanted a sense of narrative, atmosphere and a cinematic feel to the ads, neither were scared of causing a stir.

Nick Ballon was commissioned for the Dutch footwear brand Shoo. The images were published in a beautiful, large-format mood book recently. The large-scale book certainly offers the perfect canvas for these conceptionally composed and obscured images. The viewer at first feels that he is stepping into a theatrical world of dance and performance before realising that the main character is nothing but a shoe.

 
Just for those who missed a British designer's ebay auction of the Voyager Star Trek apartment, Nick Ballon shot a much better piece of furniture: The Soyuz chair - an armchair based on recreating the launching stages of the famous Russian space rocket. Sit back and prepare for launch .... countdown: 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... For earthlings who strongly believe in space travel and space tourism this is the one and only piece to have. (www.futurenews.at/archves/tag/soyuz).

Known for his excellent work as a car photographer, Tom Mennemann now surprises everyone with a strong talent for fashion photography. We interviewed him briefly as he is always on the go working.
 
Many will ask “How come Tom now shoots fashion?”. How did this happen and why are you doing this?
 
TM: "This stems from my beginnings and because every photographer dreams about this when first starting out. Why am I doing this? Because it is the complete opposite of everything else I have done. Possibly also because one has more freedom with regards to creativity and content.
 
What did you like best about the series Desespoire?
 
TM: "The dark and especially the light. I was inspired by cinema and by the models."
 
What inspired you to do this work?
 
TM: "From the beginning this was a real commission. A full edition in black and white. The story's mood board was mainly inspired by Crash by David Cronenberg and SinCity"
 
Are you going to continue?
 
TM: "I already have and the rest is in planning"

"I believe advertising and art are two very different systems, but they can refer to each other"
This fundamental statement by Martin W. Maier is characteristic. Not only does he choose the best words to describe himself and his work, which can be read in the “Behind the Lens” interview conducted by Canon Europe
http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/btl/martin_w_maier.do#container
he also always succeeds in rising to new artist and commercial challenges. His talent as a photographer is omnipresent.
Martin has edited 3600 ingenious individual images into a 3-minute clip for the American artist Cortney Tidwell. This stop-motion clip has been met with high regard.
Martin's first music clip for Marteria, under contract with Four Music, received the Audience Award at the Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. The black and white one-take clip got the ball rolling back then. Some more clips are in postproduction now and Martin's regular partner is and will be Daniel Franke. We are confident that we will be able to report more news on the creative team in the near future.

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Nadine Elfenbein portrayed Circle Culture Gallery for StreetwearToday Magazine. CC Gallery is a renown project space for urban art and has been founded by Dirk Staudinger and Johann Haehling von Lanzauer 2001 in Berlin.
 
Gregor Hohenbegr worked for ZEITMAGAZIN on the topics of happiness and shooping. Congratulations to ZEITMAGAZIN being awarded LeadMagazin of the year.
Being on tour, Gregor caught up on new man collections and tuxedo styles for GQ Style and got fashion and models dancing in the Berlin being the undisputed international nightclub capital for Achtung, Zeitschrift für Mode.