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New video online: Photoshoot on water after sunset

I have been somewhat creative this weekend and uploaded another video of the politicians series for the newspaper In this short clip you can see me taking photos of Thomas Iseke. I wanted to show the politicians not typically but more private. So Steffi and I met him in his hometown at the “Lake Steinhude”, the biggest lake in northern Germany, right before sunset. I had a picture in mind with him sitting on a landing stage right above the…

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Shooting with german singer Lena Meyer-Landrut

Hi there, yesterday I had† a short photo shooting with the german newcomer singer Lena Meyer-Landrut. She is a very lovely young woman, only 18 years old, and performed a song in a casting show at the german television, where they’re looking for a singer who will then represent Germany at the Grand Prox de la Eurovision in Oslo. After this performance a lot of Newspapers asked for photos of Lena so I did them for a news-agency.

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Chief Executive Portraits in Hamburg

The last days had been very exhausting. I had some appointments for two news-agencies and drove about 1.400 kilometers (850 miles) and often slept less than five hours a night. The days included a very interesting portrait shooting in Hamburg of the chief executive of the restaurant chain “Jim Block”, Mr. Dirk Block. He was kind to grant me around 30 minutes of his time to photograph him in different poses. It’s very difficult to photograph a busy man like…

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Shooting with Dorota Szymanska for polish magazine Zwierciadlo

Hi there, time to use the new blog layout to show some biiiiiiiiiiiig pictures: Around christmas I had an assignment with Dorota Szymanska, a german politician who immigrated long time ago from Poland to Germany. Now the polish magazine Zwierclado wanted to get some nice pictures of her for a story of female immigrants who are successful in the foreign countries. I knew Dorota from a shooting during the summer when I photographed her for a local newspaper. She is…

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