Joachim Rehkämper for VAPIANO

I know the Vapiano story is not the very best to tell. Anyway, I would rather like to talk about this picture. I was asked by a Hamburg based advertising agency to do these images in Cologne. They asked me because I had been recommended to them by my dear friend and blogger Beate Finken. I will get back to that story in one of my upcoming posts. 

They checked my portfolio and fortunately seemed to like my way of doing portraits and then finally booked me. Yet I wasn´t sure what to expect in Cologne me and my assistant packed the car with almost every kind of equipment I could probably be using on location. When we arrived at the spot we had a short briefing with the artdirector and I asked him for his idea how the images should look like. He smiled and replied that he booked me for my ideas. Alright, I told my assistant to get the black background cloth out of the car. The rest of the stuff remained unpacked. I used the huge window in my back as a main light. That´s it. I love those jobs when really everyone is happy. I drove home with a grin on my face. My assistant fell asleep immediately from dealing with heavy equipment.

Joachim Rehkämper, Vice President Vapiano

 

CHROMFELD feature

Last week I have been featured by CHROMFELD

Chromfeld is a brand new fantastic online platform representing a mixed range of amazing colleagues coming from various genres. Alongside their features of photographers and graphic designers Chromfeld is publishing interesting interviews and talks and further on they are vending books and prints in variant editions of their artists. I am happy to participate to this admirable project.

 

 

Politicians

I spent two days with these nice people in the studio a while ago. Well, those are real local politicians, not models (although they seem to look like we did an ornate casting for that production). The images were supposed to be for their individual election campaigns. That was really great fun and good to see their posters spread all over the city.

Hair & Make up by lovely Evelyn Fay

 

Interview FOTOGLORIA

A few weeks ago I have been interviewed by Edda Fahrenhorst of FOTOGLORIA to refer to the current situation in the photography business during pandemic times. That was quite an inspiring delight and I definitely found myself in good company with other photographers from around the globe who gave statements to that issue. Thanks for that, Edda.

Find the whole interview here:  Faces Of Photography

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

Christina Maria Ringer, Frankfurt

Recently I had the great pleasure to photograph the amazing Christina Maria Ringer in a studio in Frankfurt. Christina actually is a remarkable person. She is a committed regional politician and further on she supports various social projects in her close surrounding. Christina is involved in many voluntary tasks and amongst other activities she is the child representative in Frankfurt. My deepest respect for this smart and powerful woman.

Hair & Make up by Evelyn Fay, Frankfurt

 

 

ROBECO Germany

And here´s another short story straight out of Frankfurt´s Business District, the capital of finance and investment. It´s always a great pleasure working with these lovely people of ROBECO

Maybe you notice that.

 

 

Business as usual? Same same but different.

I really love doing business portraits. They often look similar but you have to consider the details. As a photographer I am always in charge of creating the best result for my clients. Well, the client pays for that promise and definitely expects highest output.

Here are some examples of images I did for Braun & Westenberger Immobilienbewertung, located in Frankfurt.

I still like that old-fashioned white or monochromatic cardboard background. The character of your model seemingly turns out stronger and the concentration on each face makes the picture even more interesting - and in some cases indeed mysterious.

Special thanks to Nannette Römer of graurot postproduction, Hamburg.

Photographers - a personal project on colleagues

In 2019 I started a personal project on portraying my fellow photographers, all members of BFF Germany. This is really going to turn out as a long term project hopefully, with the side effect of getting to know all of the members of the BFF personally. Let´s wait and see. Great fun anyway. 

To be continued.

 

Götz Schleser, Berlin

Jens Oellermann, Berlin

Darius Ramazani, Berlin

Klaus Mellenthin, Berlin

Jens Görlich, Frankfurt

Hendrik Lüders, Hamburg

Katja Ruge, Hamburg

Florian W. Müller, Köln

Alexandra Lechner, Frankfurt

Stefan Hobmaier, München

Rui Camilo, Frankfurt

Bernd Opitz, Hamburg

Fiene Wollstadt, Berlin

Robert Garo, Frankfurt

It's been a while. Welcome 2021. Let´s face new opportunities.

 

 Well then, the year 2020 has not been very friendly to the most of us. Let´s forget about that. There were difficult months of not knowing exactly where this road might lead us and if some of us might overcome this time at all. Anyway, 2020 didn't end up too bad for me and I could actually gain new clients.

Here's a quick sample and some shots for KGS Software GmbH ,an IT company located in the Frankfurt/Main area. The images were photographed in September 2020 at the clients' location and considering highest hygienic issues. 

Classical business photography for an amazing new client and with a fantastic supporting team.

Special thanks to Nannette Römer of graurot postproduction, Hamburg.