Coolangatta / Tweed Heads
Born in Germany, moved to Australia in 1974 and spend 13 years in the Fiji Islands back in Australia in 2002 and been doing photography full time for 50 years.
Artworks: 79
I was born in Germany, in 1949. For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a photographer. In 1974 I migrated to Australia where I worked as technical officer at the University of NSW for 6 years. In 1980 I purchased a photographic library called International Photographic Library; and from there I was able to get into commercial photography. In 1989 I made the move to Fiji full time where I had my own studio for 13 years. My clients were Air Pacific, Sheraton, Warwick, FEA , Fijan Holdings, Flour Mills of Fiji along with almost all other big companies and of course most Islands resorts.
In 2000, I decided not to work for advertising agencies anymore. I was lucky to get to know many artists and in 2002 I went into a partnership with two great designers, Rob and Glenbo and we opened a company called Three Loose Coconuts; 3LC published 22 pictorial books, children books, cookbooks and books on the Fiji Islands.
Through GEO Germany we published books on 8 cities in Germany. I have always loved photography and all the great people I met during my active time as a photographer. My images are on both sides of a Air Fiji 747 aircraft flying around the world, one of our cook books was runner up at the Beijing best cookbooks of the World, and our children’s book sold 400,000 copies. I travelled to France to photograph Fijian rugby players for a large corporation, Flour mills of Fiji ; to use on their advertising billboards.
Once a photographer, always a photographer. Today I have the time to go through my body of work which I make available to collectors of fine art photography.
Where do I start, I did many exiting jobs over the last 40 years. Air to air photography for Air Pacific, love working from helicopters, photographed many Island and Island resorts and of course all the advertising work, to name just a view, Nestle, CocaCola, FmF, Sheraton, Wakaya Isl. Matamanoa Isl. Musket Cove Island, Rain & Horn, Colliers Intern. Castaway Isl., Sonailali Isl. Warwick Group Fiji & Vanuatu, Le Lagoon Vanuatu, and many more.
Specialties: Photography; Aerial Photography, Publishing & Design.
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