Hi, my name is Robert and I come from the beautiful far north of Germany and have been living in the Cologne/Bonn region for a few years now. I'm a primary school teacher full-time and I chat a lot not only in school but also during the shoots. I was already enthusiastic about photography when I was at middle school. To this day, my role model is Henri-Cartier Bresson. Like many others, I had a couple of compact and digital cameras after I graduated from high school that couldn't really do anything and therefore mostly just lay around somewhere. Since 2018 I have been taking photos more intensively and have bought a single-lens reflex camera. To this day, I continue to learn more about photography and keep improving my skills.
I came to ballet and dance photography through my wife, who dances herself and is a great help, inspiration and above all a wonderful photo motif for me. Dance photography inspires me above all because with it you can capture physical abilities as well as emotions in a special and sometimes intimate way that hardly any other direction of photography makes possible for me. Passion, strength, authenticity are important things that I try to capture in a picture together with the models. This combined with the endless joy I get from photographing with other people forms the basis of my photos.
I live in Bonn but love to travel. So if you have a great idea and want to work with me, we will definitely find a way. I don't want to make money from photography. Shootings are always free with me. You can stalk me personally here and here you will find my most recent work.
References
I worked with dancers from:
State Ballet Berlin
State Ballet Munich
Ballet Stuttgart
Theater Dortmund
Aalto Ballet Essen
John Neumaier Ballet Hamburg
Statetheater Schwerin
Semperoper Dresden
Dutch National Ballet
Viena State Ballet
Royal Swedish Ballet
Norwegian National Ballet
Finish National Ballet
Latvian National Ballet
Vanemuine Ballet Tartu
Berlin State Ballet School
Vienna State Ballet School
Royal Swedish Ballet School
Oslo National School of Arts
John Cranko School
And thanks to the following locations for their corporations:
Park Sansoucci
Stategallery Stuttgart
Propsteikirche Dortmund
Statelibrary Munich
Museum für Abgüsse klassischer Werke München
National Opera Amsterdam
Sentralen Oslo (former National Bank of Norway)
Handelskammer Hamburg
Latvian National Opera