Inspiration: Juergen Teller X Studio Andreas Wellnitz

These posters for Berlin's Schaubühne by the wonderful Andreas Wellnitz Studio were all over town last month. You could tell from far across the street who they were photographed by. Shot in two days at a camping site by the Tegel-Airport, which actually sits near a beautiful lake. For me, these images summarize Berlin summer perfectly.

Andreas Wellnitz is a visual editor and magazine consultant living and working in Berlin. All of his project feature beautiful photographs and interesting photo production. He also publishes a travel magazine Paradiso, of whom I am a big fan.

Inspiration: JNBY X Amira Fritz X Kathi Kauder

While looking at the work of German stylist Kathi Kauder, I came across this beautiful story she did for Chinese fashion label JNBY. Photographed by Amira Fritz following the road from Shanghai to Paris, through Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary. Beautiful mood and simple uncomplicated styling. The streetcast models are my favoutrite part...

The entire story can be seen on photographer Amira Fritz's website.

All photographs © Amira Fritz

Dawid Tomaszewski S/S 2014 Campaign

Our photographs for Dawid Tomaszewski have been getting some great press on Vogue.de and Elle.pl

We are very happy with the results of a project that was one of our favourite shoots to date. Wonderful model, an amazing team, and simply a super atmosphere, in a grand private residence in Potsdam, Germany.

Model:  Katarzyna Jujeczka @ Izaio Management 
Art Direction: Martin Sauerbrey
Production: Affa Ossman, Lydia Wagner, Alesia Erhardt 
Makeup and hair: Helena Narra-Kapidzic 

Individual images from the campaign.

And two others photographed in color.

Photography in Berlin, February 2013

Berlin is an amazing place for photography, it seems like every week there is a new photo exhibition to see. We are definitely super lucky to be living here right now. Here is some work we've seen in the last month or so:


Saw the work of Swedish photographer Christer Stromholm (1918-2002) for the first time last year, at Swedish Photography. I was happy to see our favourite gallery C/O Berlin was showing a big retrospective of his in Germany for the first time. A self-declared advocate of “available light”, his grainy portraits of transsexuals are particularly lovely.

Asger Carlsen's Hester at Dittrich Schlechtriem gallery  (1 Feb 16-Mar, 2013)
Stumbled upon this just walking down a street in Mitte :) Asger Carlsen born 1973 in Denmark, and now lives and works in New York. You can read a small interview with him about this series on Vice.

 



Lovely Camille Vivier's show, Eine Form at Galerie für Moderne Fotografie (11 Jan – 9 Mar, 2013). Got another chance to see this show, as the one I originally planned on attending in Paris, was locked the day I went. Berlin's Gallery for Modern Photography is small, but always features great works.
 

15 Years at the highly influential CameraWork gallery by various renowned photographers.

Love this series for Italian Vogue by photographer: Michaelangelo di Battista

Some really great portraiture

The team behind DerZeit Magazine put together a 2013 fashion calendar, with a launch party at Voo. The printed piece was a limited edition collectible, featuring upcoming new faces wearing German fashion designers.

Cover and January - Art Direction Manuel Schibli, Photography Jonas Lindström and Styling by the lovely Sebastiano Ragusa 


Margaret Bourke-White at Martin-Gropius-Bau museum, featuring iconic images photographed for Life Magazine.

Also... Oh, no big deal :)

 The latest exhibition we attended was last week, for the opening of Deutschland, by Gerry Johansson (b. 1945) at Swedish Photography gallery (Feb 16 - Mar 30, 2013). Germany via its suburban and rural landscapes. Simple, quiet images, with really clever composition.

Berlin Fashion Week SS 2013

Our belated post on Berlin Fashion week, better late then never :) Here are some things we liked, surprisingly mostly menswear.


Julian Zigerli
Show and Presentation

Martin Niklas Wieser
Presentation

Sissi Goetze
Presentaion

Isabell de Hillerin 
Presentation 

Paris Photo

I can't believe it's been almost 2 months since my (first) trip to Paris, so this post is a bit overdue. I attended the 16th edition of the Paris Photo exhibition on November 14, courtesy of Berlin's C/O Gallery and Lufthansa. 

The fair was set inside the beautiful Grand Palais, and there was an incredible amount of works to see, to be honest, almost too much to try to take in in one day. Below are some things I saw, liked, and wished I owned.


Always nice to see some master originals in person:

Sarah Moon, For the NYT, 1997. Original Polaroids, (10,000 euro), Camera Obscura, Paris

Paolo Poversi, Saskia, Paris, Platinum Print, 2012, Pace Mcgill Gallery

Paolo Poversi

(L) Irving Penn, Woman in Black Turtleneck, 1951, silver gelatin print 55,000 euro. (R) Irving Penn, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 1949, vintage print, 55,000 euro, both Robert Klein Gallery

Stephen Shore, Top (L) E. Walnut Street, Roswell1974, (R) West 15 Street, Cincinatti, Bottom (L) !!!! Main Street, Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, 1974 !!!!! (R) Moore Haven, Florida, all c-prints, Conrads Düsseldorf.

William Eggleston

(L) , (R) Walker Evans, Alabama Tenant Farmer's Wife, 1936, silver gelatin print, Edwynn Houk Gallery

Exhibition by the wonderful duo of Hilla and Bernd Becher, featuring various prints.

Great black & white work by famous masters and some lesser known photographers:
 

Josef Koudelka, Romania 1968, silver gelatin print, signed.

Vlatka Horvat, With Sky on their Shoulders 2, 2011, cut photographs on cardboard, Gallery Taik

(L) Edward Weston, Nude Study III, 1925, vintage silver print, 25,000 euro, (R) August Sander, Two Boxers, 1929, silver gelatin print, both Galerie Johannes Faber

(L) Miroslav Tichy, Two Women Talking, 1970s, vinatge silver print, 6,300 euro (R) Erwin Blumenfeld, Teddy Thurman, 1948, vintage silver print, 28,000 euro, both at Galerie Johannes Faber

Rudolf Koppitz, (L) Two Brothers, 1928, vintage pigment print, 16,000 euro, (R) Movement Study, 1925, vintage silver print, 145,000 euro, both Galerie Johannes Faber.

Above: Amazing work by a photographer Rudolf Koppitz, unknown to me, but obviously popular with collectors :)


I love the print by on the right below. A copy of it used to hang on my fridge years ago, the face in it is so shockingly similar to mine... I'd love to own it one day. 

(L) Henri Cartier-Bresson, Millitary Appraisal at Moscow Trolley Stop, 1954, silver gelatin print, (R) Susan Derges, Observer and the observed, 1991, silver gelatin print at Purdy Hicks Gallery

Best deal at the show, as far as I'm concerned...

(L) Vivian Maier, Self-portrait, 1955, silver gelatin print, printed in 2011, 1,900 euro - sold, (R) Vivian Maier, Girl Wading in Lake Michigan, 1968, silver gelatin, printed in 2012, 1,400 euro - sold, both at Steven Kasher Gallery

Some nice contemporary work in color:

Robert Polidori, Marat Rez de Chausee, 1985, fuji color archive print, Edwynn Houk Gallery

Michal Chelbin, Fyodor, Sentenced for Theft, 2010, c-print, 6,000 euro, Andrea Meislin Gallery

Ilit Azoulay, Room #8, 2011, archival pigment print, 18,000 euro, Andrea Meislin Gallery

Jessica Eaton, 2011-2012,archival pigment prints, M+B Gallery

It was nice to see Canadian photographer, and Jeff's highschool mate, Jessica Eaton at the show!

Hendrik Kerstens, Hairnet, 2000 & Aluminum, 2012, both pigment prints, Danziger Gallery

(L)Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled, California Series, 2012, archival pigment print (R) Rinko Kawauchi, 2004, c-print

(L) Wassink Lundren, Empty Bottles no. 24, c-print, 2007 (R) Evelyn Hoffer, Queensboro Bridge, 1964, dye transfer print

Erwin Wurm, Claudia Schifer, c-print, 2009, at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard

There was also a book fair:

Some beautiful book design at Mack, London

Apparently this is the last copy of Viviane Sassen's Flamboya book, being offered here for 500 euro. So glad I got mine years ago from Amazon.

Paris Photo was an amazing experience, I can't wait to go back.