Photographer #096: Josef Hoflehner

Josef Hoflehner, Austria, 1955, is a landscape photographer. Josef shoots black and white images traveling all over the world from Dubai to China and from the USA to Iceland. He has a large number of books published throughout his career. In 2009 his book Jet Airliner came out. Bizarre photographs of airplanes flying over people and streets while landing at St. Maartens, Dutch West Indies. Also in 2009 a book called China was published. The following images are from the series Jet Airliner, China and California.

Website: www.josefhoflehner.com

Photographer #072: Vee Speers

Vee Speers, Australia, 1962, lives and works in Paris, France. Her most recent series is The Birthday Party, an imaginary birthday party where children dress up creating bizarre, twilight zone like images. Earlier her book Bordello was released. Photographs printed with a 19th century technique and inspired on the photography of the 1920's and 30's. The following images come from the series The Birthday Party, Bordello and Parisians.

Website: www.veespeers.com

Photographer #045: Joni Sternbach

Joni Sternbach, USA, 1953, uses a technique in photography that has been around since the 1850's but not seen very often these days. She makes tintypes of 8x10" and 14x17". One of a kind positives on blackened metal, shot in camera on location and then processed in a portable dark box. (see video) Her book Surfland was released in 2009. Images of surfers along the coastline.

Sternbach focuses on landscapes and seascapes, the series The Salt Effect is an example of her landscape photography.

Website: www.jonisternbach.com

Photographer #029: Rainer Elstermann

German photographer Rainer Elstermann, 1965, approaches his photographs as if they were paintings. He is clearly inspired by the great painters. The lighting he uses is immaculate. In his series Old Masters he even recreated several icon paintings into photographs. The photographs below are from various series.

Website: www.rainerelstermann.de

Photographer #013: Marc Lagrange

Marc Lagrange, 1957, lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Although his pictures remind us of the great works of Helmut Newton or Peter Lindbergh, Marc brings a finesse to his pictures like no other. His photographs are stylish, well composed and iconic.

Website: www.lagrange.be

Photographer #011: Bert Teunissen

Bert Teunissen, 1959, is a Dutch photographer who has been working on the project Domestic Landscapes for the last thirteen years. 
"This project is about light - natural daylight. The photos show how daylight illuminates the domestic interior, and how it dictated the way the interior was build, used and decorated. This specific light and the atmosphere it creates have their origins in the architecture of the pre-electricity era, when daylight was the main source of light. This kind of light started to disappear from European homes after World War II when the old way of building was abandoned. At this moment few of these homes remain."
Teunissen spend ten years documenting the homes in Europe. A large selection came together in his book Domestic Landscapes, A portrait of Europeans at home. Currently he is expanding his archive of homes in the Eastern European countries. He has also documented homes in Japan. His archive grows with other books such as On the Road, A domestic landscapes travelog. For the entire archive, check out his website.

Website: www.bertteunissen.com