Production Paradise

Welcome to the latest edition of Showcase Germany. As always, we give you a round-up of the latest visual media news and projects from a selection of the best companies listed in our city directories.

For your diaries:

• Berlin's Camerawork Photogalerie is running an exhibition of selected Peter Lindbergh photographs. Until 6 October.
• In Munich, Haus der Kunst has a major exhibition of work by British couple Gilbert & George, the "pop stars of contemporary art". The exhibition features 200 works spanning the entire 40-year career of the artistic duo. Until 9 September.

ham photography/photo agents: MARION ECKHARDT

Marion Eckhardt Photographers is a Hamburg-based agency that has been representing photographers since 1988, covering the entire range of photography and working for international advertising campaigns, brands and magazines. The agency also offers a wide range of production services.

The photographers and their latest projects:

• Sven Görlich - Shoot on TV-set, celebrities, portrait. Becks Bier, Geramont, Jacobs Kaffee, Langnese, Milka, Skoda...
• Christoph A Gramann - people, childred, sports. FC Bayern, Südzucker, Vita life...
• Sven Heinrich - people, portrait. Sierra Tequila...
• Tom Kleineberg - jewellery, stills. Tchibo, Neutrogena, Montblanc, Wempe, Junghans Uhren ...
• Oliver Sterk - cars, CGI. BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Smart, Cadillac...
• Olaf Tiedje - people, portrait. Iglo, Schwäbisch Hall, Siemens, Wolf Wurstwaren...
• Harry Vorsteher - fashion, beauty. C&A, Karstadt, Kaufhof, VDI Nachrichten...

ber photography/photo agents: GECKO PHOTOGRAPHERS

News from Gecko Photographers, the young agency celebrating its first birthday in August:

• Alexander Basta - shot Naomi Campbell's brother Pierre Blackwood for a cover of German Vanity Fair Online and is working on a book of his portraits.
• Mick Mazzei - a new catalogue for the new Oktoberfest line of Munich-based couture designer Daniel Fendler.
• Markus Heisler - shot the new lingerie collection of Berlin-based designer Harald Alisch's fashion label Perlen vor die Säue and discovered Rebecca from Rothchild Models
• Hubertus Schüler - busy with fashion stills for his client Esprit and is collecting recipes for a cookery book
• Che Chapman - cover shoots for Noosa Style and Noose Travel magazines.
• Nino Gehrig (kids and people) - in Barcelona preparing an editorial and shooting for clients La Caixa and La Vanguardia
• New addition, Torsten Roman - currently working on a project with the Berlin branch of Scholz & Friends

muc photography/photo agents: AGENTUR NEUBAUER & SPRINGER

The latest from Agentur Neubauer & Springer's photographers:

• Wolf-Dieter Böttcher - shot for GQ Special
• Markus Pritzi - photographed on the subject of Aqua for Número Beauté
• Andi Frank - produced for Mini (BMW)
• Jorg Badura - Accelerade's North American campaign
• Donja Pitsch - shot a desert story in Djerba for French Marie France
• Sandra Seckinger - campaign for Kabel1 and Milupa
• Michael Munique - Yes or No poster campaign in Paris, with model Eugen Bauder and a cashmere shoot for Manor with model Mini Anden
• Rasmus Kaessman - shot in Italy for kite-surf fashion label Rodwy. Other projects include for Joop Jeans, Matador and fashion collection of students of Neuköllner Rütli Schule
• Myrzik & Jarisch - under the title "Efficient Dynamic Portraits" shot engineers for BMW Magazine. Also, Bilderpool for the European Patent Office
• Robert Brembeck - campaign shot for electricity provider Envia and a production for ZDF Television

fra photography/photo agents: ZEEZOO

zeezoo was founded in 2001 by three former art buyers, and is now established as a brand that stands for professionalism, high quality photographers and competent service.

• Benno Kraehahn (celebrity photographer) - Nintendo, with German footballer Philipp Lahm plus a shoot for Deutsche Bahn
• Günther Philipp (all photography areas and postproduction) - Samsung where he took a picture of Michael Ballak.
• Michael Schwab (beauty and fashion) - campaign for Nescafé (McCann Erickson) and Mövenpick.
• Claudia Neu & Karsten Handke (babies, kids) - campaign for Fixies

ham photography/photo agents: UPFRONT

Latest news from Hamburg photographers' agent Upfront:

Lothar Reichel
Shot the new BMW X3 in Italy for the Asian market. Agency: Interone Munich, postproduction by Helmut Vogt

Karin Wildhage
Photographed Maxi-Cup, for the young, successful Hamburg agency Santa Maria

Rebecca Schweins
The Paris-based beauty photographer updated her website with some of her latest work.

muc photography/photo agents: MARY BIN

Mary Bin photographers' agent is newly featured with Production Paradise.

Mary Bin's philosophy is to "keep it small and beautiful", choosing her photographers carefully and running the company like a family-business, maintaining close contact between clients and photographers.

Photographers represented by Mary Bin:

Dorothea Craven
Specialising in fashion, beauty, kids and advertising.
Mary says, "Dorothea is a workaholic who is always happy, hardly ever complains and who is super professional. She is warm-hearted and everybody loves her for that and... her jokes!"

Ole Graf
Specialising in fashion, advertising, people and kids
Mary says, "When I met Ole, it just clicked... he is just what I expect from a photographer in my team: easy-going, charming, spot-on, creative and he takes great pictures!"

Peter Schreiber
Specialising in fashion, action, cars and nautical
Mary says, "Clients love Peter for his sense of beauty and his ever-calm professional approach to the job. In the snow, under water, in the desert, on the beach, in a helicopter or on a boat-you can send him anywhere, he just loves it".

muc photography/photo agents: XING ARTPRODUCTION

Latest work from XING Artproduction Munich:

Jens Ihnken

• New collection campaign for Bruno Banani
• New images for re-branding of Pierre Laffitte
• New look for Mario Barutti with Stylist Iva Sesto - portraits with personality, casual style
• Enfant des Paris - own collection produced together with some friends. The presentation on the Red Carpet in Berlin was a success

Christian Höhn

• Siemens images - "Megacities" in Essen and Frankfurt
• Skoda Octavia with kick stand for Giro d'Italia.
• BMW - the artwork can not yet be shown

Gary Engel (in Cape Town)

• Made 05 Fashion magazine - "Film Noir"
• EFF EXTRA shoe fashion - "very sexy and stylish"
• New designer fashion label from Milan
• 90s retro-look for EFF-Magazine Milan swimwear by Versace, Roberto Cavalli and Wolford

muc photography/photo agents: PER EDER

Per Eder Creatives photographers' agent in Munich reports the following news and projects:

• Emely - recently shot for Clerical Medical, Dr Hauschka and Quelle
• Dirk Bader - shot the new campaign for Rodenstock
• Jeppe Gudmundsen-Holmgren - recently shot for Plaisir Skin Care
• Matthias Garvelmann - recently shot for Marc O'Polo, Rosner Fashion and InStyle
• Jens Palfi - shot the recent campaign for Tucher Bräu
• Goran Gajanin - just finished his book about India
• Adrian Bela Raba - recently shot for Fujitsu Siemens and SOUS Magazine
• Christian Thomas - shot for Peugeot Magazine
• Matthias Tunger - recently shot for Südzucker

muc photography/photographers: SABINE DUERICHEN

Professional photographer Sabine Duerichen, based in Munich, specialises in baby and kids photography, working with people, fashion and advertising agencies worldwide.

Sabine says she is "always in search of images that are individual and natural".

Latest productions include:

• more&more - new summer booklet 2008
• C&A - folder for August produced in Munich
• The Copyright Group - kids campaign summer 2008
• PJE Relaod - PR campaign shot at her Munich studio
• Chicco - advertising campaign for 2007/08

She has a studio in the centre of Munich with a large database of kids.

dus photography/photographers: BURKHARD HENRICHS

Düsseldorf-based fashion photographer Burkhard Henrichs is pleased to announce his completely redesigned website.

In cooperation with a Cape Town web design hot-shop, his impressive artwork and photo style can now be seen online and covers his main working categories of fashion, people, kids and image photography.

He recently shot the latest campaign for German jeans client H.I.S Jeans in stylish black and white, new commercial ads for Karstadt and sporty scenes for Wertheim, Berlin.

Having received very positive initial feedback on his new website and pictures, Burkhard says he is looking forward to a busy summer period.

muc photography/photographers: INGOLF HATZ

Ingolf Hatz has been busy working on exhibitions, projects that he describes as "my social engagement in showing students with their dreams, energy and visions... and, recently, I have been shooting people off the street, people with their hopes for the future".

He was recently booked by Saatchi & Saatchi for client ENEL / Italia, with shoots in Barcelona and Milan.

And his new website is online now...

ham photography/photographers: MARKUS DOMINITZKI

Markus Dominitzki recently shot the international image campaign for Hamburg - The Place of Aviation, showing the "private life of aviation".

He also went on a 3-week trip across Europe to shoot architecture for Deutsche Bank - London, Paris, Barcelona, Seville, Madrid, Milan and Rome.

Markus's client list includes:

• Latham & Watkins
• KSwiss
• Van Laack
• Knorr
• Tchibo
• Schweppes
• Tom Tailor

He has been a member of the Klubfoto art club in Hamburg since it launched in 2002. Another of the club's exhibitions is planned for this year.

ham production/commercial production: ERSTE LIEBE FILMPRODUKTION

Erste Liebe Filmproduktion produces innovative motion content for entertainment, advertising and marketing communications.

It represents strong creative talent from diverse disciplines.

Explaining the company name, they tell us: "erste liebe" means "first love" in English, and we love to produce every project with fresh passion."

ham photography/post production: [ZERONE] /CGI GMBH

Volkswagen asked [zerone] cgi to do a "proof of concept" to see if CGI production would meet the quality standards of the European carmaker. In cooperation with photographer Emir Haveric and agency Grabarz and Partner, [zerone] cgi started the test in October. Volkswagen was so pleased with the results that it immediately used two of the images in a campaign.

For DaimlerChrylser, [zerone] cgi produced the catalogue for the new C-Class car. The production included the creation of pure CGI shots, with photographer Ivo von Renner, and the combination of CGI elements with conventional studio photography for the English catalogue.

ham photography/post production: CROMABASE

Instant data announces version 2 of CromaBASE's digital production platform. The latest version includes the CromaBASE "uploadprocessor". Even in poor structured areas, the new upload processor provides the online features of CromaBASE shortly after the shoot. It handles all images in jobs, sort, filters, selects, does the ranking and reports approval of the shoot.

Instant Data also offers rental equipment: the portable CromaBOX shooting station automatically transfers images to the secure CromaBASE datacenter and optionally comes equipped with specially calibrated digital SLR - or medium format camera.

Good daily or monthly rates are available for the complete digital support and workflow of the whole production.

ham photography/equipment rent: CALIFORNIA SUNBOUNCE

American photographer David Mecey has spent 30 years' as a fashion and Playboy photographer, and loves to train photo enthusiasts at Palm Springs Hotel during his famous "hands-on" Foto Fantasy Camp workshops.

When he grabs a camera, he always uses light enhancers supplied by California Sunbounce - whether outdoors or in the studio.

California Sunbounce believes that light has to be formed and adapted to the subject as well as the idea of the shot that you want, and that is what its products achieve.

ber photography/equipment rent: DELIGHT RENTAL SERVICES GMBH

Delight Rental Services is proud to show the first pictures of the newly opened Delight Rental Studios in the so-called Backfabrik.

Located within walking distance to the Alexanderplatz, the combination of the second rent department and the rental studios in one building offers the perfect conditions for your smooth production in Berlin.

Naturally, there will be no change in the service provided at their Lützowplatz head office.

ham photography/equipment rent: 711 RENT

711rent based in Hamburg and Düsseldorf is a full-service provider, renting out everything needed for a professional photo shoot in well-maintained conditions. This includes its own production vehicles for working digitally on location.

Its wide range of equipment enables the company to fit out the largest of sets in the fastest time. And it offers a backup system to guarantee the production workflow.

muc photography/equipment rent: HAEDLER + HAEDLER

HAEDLER+HAEDLER continues to regularly extend its range of equipment for rental. Recently, they upgraded the Brone Equipment to the latest generation.

Other innovations include the Arri Sun 2,5KW/ 4KW with converter lenses; the brand new Profoto ProRing2 with a powerful 200W modelling light; and the in-demand Foldit Cart, which folds easily for convenient storage and can haul up to 330 lbs.

The company's website features photographer and client Esad CICIC and will be showing some pictures of the current Calida campaign.

Other productions handled include Mario Schmolka (c/o Agenture Sternenfänger) for Luisa Cerano and Markus Pritzi (Agentur Neubauer&Springer) for Número Beauté.