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Jean-Daniel Lorieux

Insatiable author and catalyst of unexpected images, Jean-Daniel Lorieux is more than just a famous French photographer. He is also a consummate artist, equally revered in the art world for his paintings, especially in Asia. Always fascinated by the cinema, in his youth he rubbed shoulders with Marcel Carné on film sets before setting off for Algeria, where he captured the horrors of war in his uncompromising photographs. He had found his vocation. Fascinated by women with sublime and improbable figures, he glorifies them with an aesthetic sense which is all his own, guided by an explosion of light and color on location. A dedicated follower of fashion and lover of women and fast cars, Jean-Daniel Lorieux exudes a charisma characterized by beauty, elegance, insolence and humor. A contemporary and friend of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, he remains one of the leading lights in the world of fashion photography. Famous for his consecration of the “blue Lorieux”, he attaches extreme importance to representation and nuance. With the arrival of digital photography, he immediately focused his attention on calibration and on Datacolor tools, which he uses every day. Extract from “image magazine”.

www.jdlorieux.com

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Guido Karp

Guido Karp ist ein fotografischer tausendsassa mit Wohnsitz in Höhr-Grenzhausen und Los Angeles. nach eigener Aussage zu unsportlich, um Fußball und zu unmusikalisch, um Gitarre zu spielen, verlegte er sich auf die Fotografie. Guido Karp fotografiert seit er 12
Jahre alt ist und hat es verstanden, sein Hobby höchst erfolgreich zum Beruf zu machen: Mit großer Energie startete er eine enorme Karriere als Musik- und Bühnenfotograf. Karp begleitete unzählige Musikergrößen auf ihren weltweiten Tourneen. für Robbie Williams fungiert er zum Beispiel als exklusiver Tourfotograf. Aber damit nicht genug: seine Bühnenfotos werden von ihm direkt unter fansunited.com vermarktet und gern ruft der Workaholic neue Projekte wie die
vorher/nachher-show „Princess for one day“ (www.p41d.com) ins Leben, wenn er nicht gerade sein Know-how in Workshops an Kollegen weitergibt.

www.guidokarp.com

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Rafal Maslow

Rafal wurde 1974 im polnischen Lublin geboren. Er absolvierte die Academy of Fine Art in Posen. Heute lebt und arbeitet Rafal Maslow in Warschau. Seit sieben Jahren widmet er sich sehr erfolgreich der kommerziellen Fotografie: Zu seinen Kunden zählen polnische Hochglanzmagazine, Werbeagenturen sowie Fotoagenturen. Besondere Bekanntheit erreichte der Fotograf mit seinen Porträtaufnahmen von Schauspielern, Musikern und Schriftstellern.

www.rafalmaslow.com

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Tom Bauer

Tom Bauer wurde 1976 in Bern geboren und reiste als Kind mit seiner Familie im Campervan durch die ganze Welt. Er besuchte darauf die Waldorf Schule in Baar bei Zug, wo er ein offenes und kreatives Weltbild vermittelt bekam. Bilder und Traeume praegten sein Leben als Kind, dazu kam ein intensives Koerpergefuehl und ein starken Willen, den er sich als Spitzensportler im Rudersport aneignete und in einem Weltmeistertitel seinen Hoehenpunkt fand. Danach wittmete sich Tom vermehrt den Bilder- und Traeumwelten die ihn schon seit seiner Kindheit faszinierten und fand in der Photographie die ideale Sprache um diese zu erzaehlen. Nach dem Schuhlabschluss zog es ihn nach London, wo er ein Bachelor of Arts in Photographie machte. Tom arbeitet heute vorallem in Zuerich und Paris und photographiert in den Bereichen Mode, Portrait und Werbung.

www.tombauerphotography.com

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Alex Soh

Alex Soh believes that a good photograph is all about opportunity. An artist doesn’t make art – art happens. As art director and photographer for RBC Ministries, Alex has literally traveled all over the world building the organization’s stock image library since 1997. His photographs have won numerous awards and accolades and have been featured on the covers of Our Daily Bread that is distributed worldwide with a circulation figure of 17 million copies. Alex grew up in a village in Singapore and his adventures there inspired the creativity that has led to a passion for photography. He is looking forward to publish his first book Life Touching Moments. Alex desires to share with others pictures of God’s creation and pictures that touch lives.

www.alexsohphotography.com

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Andrea Pistolesi

Born in Florence in 1957, Andrea Pistolesi studied geography at the local university. He continues to live here, in a place he considers not so much an urban center but a continuous source of inspiration.
With the evolution of his vocation as an explorer, Andrea has become a travel photographer specialized in geographic and ethnographic reportage in every part of the world. Today he works on assignment for major magazines (see below). His photographic books on exotic destinations (Indonesia, New Zealand, Morocco, South Africa, The Land of Buddha, Hinduism, Eastern Christianity) have been published in addition to illustrated travel books on the major European subjects. He is the sole author of the photos in the Bonechi Publishers US book series (35 titles) and is currently shooting the pictures for the book on prayer in the World’s major religions Andrea has become especially known for his research on the use of existing light which he combines with a formal yet personalized composition of his images. He is holding workshops every year on Geographical and Digital Photography. The approach to Fine Art Photography came as a natural evolution of this professional career. His work has been exhibited both in Italy and abroad. He participated with a personal show at the VII Biennale di Fotografia in Turin and won the 1998 First Award in the Italian selection of the Fuji European Press Award.

www.pistolesiphoto.com

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Ira Bordo

Ira Bordo is a very popular and admired russian photographer. She has been a true artist since her childhood. From a very young age Ira used to flip through books about art while other kids her age read fairy tales. She used to make up her own fairy tales and dreams while viewing these art books. After she graduated from the Moscow Public Art School where she studied drawing and painting she began a career as a painter. The coincidences in life lead her towards photography. “When i saw the endless possibilities of what one can do with a camera and a computer i was just flabbergasted. That’s when my passion for photography began.” There and then she decided to put the paintbrush and canvas aside and begin creating images of such unusual tenderness and refinement. Since 2002 Ira has been living and working in the Novoslobodskaya district of Moscow. Today she mainly works as a freelance artist in the fashion and advertising industry.

www.irabordo.ru

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Sascha Hüttenhain

Hard edges & smooth shapes are the contrasts which Sascha Hüttenhain admires. Sascha photographs his models between cubic elements in his studio or in run-down buildings and other industrial surroundings when he is on location. Sascha Hüttenhain was born in 1973 in the German town of Siegen. He has been living and working there ever since. Photagraphy has been his profession since 1998. For 2 years he was an assistant photographer this is how he gathered most of his experience. Meanwhile Sascha has his own studio and also works as lecturer for photography seminars. Colors and grayscales are two elements which he takes very seriously. That is why Sascha relies on the PrintFIX PRO™ Suite for his work.

www.huettenhain.com

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Uli Staiger

The work of Uli Staiger is: Surreal? Unbelievable? Or just totally crazy? Probably a little bit of everything. In his berlin based studio Uli produces all his dynamic photographs that depict an insane world. Uli likes to play with the design of objects that he later on presents in a completely different context in his photographs. His photographs are executed under strict lighting and perspectival prerequisites. His work is truely out of this world.

www.dielichtgestalten.de

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Chip Simons

Chip says:

“And…it really doesn’t matter if you take pictures anyway…..nobody cares….there are a million guys, that were at that party, who will gladly take the job anyway.”

Have a look at his pictures, they are strange, very unusual but definitely worth to bee shown. Passion matters.

A short bio in his own words:
“I live in new mexico…on a small farm…with goats,sheep,chickens,
dogs,wife,kids,8 motorcycles,12 bicycles, and 5 trampolines. I used to live in new york city…but i got out early for good behavior. I lived in gettysburg pa during high school years, and i was a kid in clearwater florida. I work for tons of magazines world wide…and i sell tons of stock photos. I have been a professional since 1982. I am self taught for the most part.”

www.chipsimons.com

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Sarah Silver

Sarah Silver fuses her love of movement with her extensive knowledge of fashion. She works digitally in order to find perfect moments in every movement. Her work has been featured in French Vogue, V, Surface, PDN and the New York Times. She lives and works in NYC – Hasselblad Master 2003. Sarah uses the Spyder and says “I`ve taken control of my colors” .

www.sarahsilver.com

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Marcus Schwier

Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1964, Marcus Schwier discovered his fascination for photography while he was still in school. After earning his architecture degree he continued his photography studies at the art academy of Düsseldorf. Today, the freelancer works on miscellaneous projects, commercial ones as well as artistic ones. Since 1995 his work concentrates on landscapes and architecture.

www.marcus-schwier.de

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Andreas H. Bitesnich

“The gifted autodidact has forged an extraordinary career already. Having reached Mount Olympus of photography, he sits on a respect-inspiring cloud, but he will not rest. He will be one of the few great ones of this guild – I am absolutely sure of it.”
(Tom Jacobi, Stern Magazine, Germany).

www.bitesnich.com

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Stefan Rohner

Stefan Rohner lives and works in Ibiza, Spain. His photographs are powerful, honest and capture the essence of life. Stefans sequences wether having being shot in a foreign country or of the next door neighbor always reflect his passion and respect for photography. He mainly uses analog technology. The quality of his traditional darkroom prints are amazing. You are probably wonderung why we have chosen Stefan Rohner as our newest FWV member although he does not use digital technology! Just take a look at the pictures he makes and you will understand. It’s the passion that matters. Visit his exhibition in munich at the Gallerie Lichtpunkt.

www.stefan-rohner.net

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