Profile ID:
UNT-63721
Village photographer
Village photographer
Fladderstraße 33
26203 Wardenburg
Postal address:
26203 Wardenburg
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Company overview
Manufacture focus, service offers:
Photography, family photography, wedding photography, baby bump photography, drone photography, event photography, sports photography, business photography, drone photography, video, press releases, translations,
Technology usage:
Nikon D5, Nikon D850, Drone DJI Mavic Pro2, DJI Mavic Mini 2, Profoto B1, Profoto B10, Profoto A1
Annotations:
My roots are in the hip-hop scene, so I started out specializing in b-boy/b-girl photography. After organizing numerous events for the scene and working as an editor/author with legendary New York hip-hop photographer Martha Cooper on two books about hip-hop, I started working as a freelance photographer in 2010.
In 2008, Martha Cooper, legendary New York photographer and one of my best friends, had just upgraded from the Nikon D70 to the D700 and gave me her D70 with the words, "I think you could be a great photographer – do something with it!"
So in 2009, I went on a six-month trip to follow hip-hop culture in Mexico and Central America to write a blog and learn photography by watching a bunch of YouTube tutorials and training with Eva Lepiz from the local photographers association in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Grateful that I finally knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, I started freelancing photography for the Red Bull BC One Breakdance Worldchampionship in 2010, for which I had been working as a writer, blogger, web editor and cultural and social media manager until then.
I submitted my photos for the first time at the world finals in Tokyo in 2010, Red Bull Mediahouse loved them and from then on it went from strength to strength. If you visit redbullbcone.com, you'll find me there as one of the few female photographers featured by Red Bull.
I love the adrenaline rush before a competition, when you know you have to concentrate every second to not miss that crucial shot - the one moment that decides the winner. But I also love walking around a new city, finding my location, choosing my angles, setting up my portable lights (I love working with big lights!) and working with athletes and artists on the street.
In short, photographing movement, freezing the perfect moment, that's what makes me the happiest.
I really enjoy working with other photographers. There is so much we can learn from each other. Also, the work of a photographer can be very lonely. Most of what we do is editing, and that's mostly done at home in front of the computer, all alone.
In 2015 I started working for Urban Nation in Berlin, a big street art project and since 2017 also a museum for urban and contemporary art.
In 2016/2017 Martha Cooper and I worked on a very exciting photo project together. Take a look at the book One Week with 1UP and you'll understand what I mean by exciting!
Since 2019 I have been working for Wynwood Walls in Miami.
I love giving workshops for beginners and advanced students. It's so satisfying to see their faces the moment the information sinks in and it "clicks" and they realize that with a little extra knowledge, they can improve their images by so much. Hip-hop mentality: Each one teach one! Give something back!
A few years ago I funded Girlz Who Shoot, a collective of female photographers, but then my mother became seriously ill in January 2019 and so I've spent the last year and a half mainly looking after my parents. So the GWS project has been on hold for the last two years.
In 2018, Martha Cooper and I had very successfully started giving joint talks/exhibitions on hip hop/street art/photography at events around the world and had been booked for many more in 2019.
Unfortunately, my beloved mother had a brain hemorrhage in January 2019 and I have been mostly caring for her and my father in the country since then and I canceled all my travels in 2019, then, in 2020, Corona struck and there were no more events to go to.
It didn't hit me very hard though as I was looking after my mother anyway and I had started documenting the tiny village they live in, which is now my favorite project and one I find hard to tear myself away from. Check it out:
@fladderfuenfhausen
In 2020, I had the great honor of preparing Martha Cooper's images from 1960 to 2020 for print for her major photography retrospective at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin.
There are so many photography projects I still want to do - so many photos that need to be taken, books that need to be made, paths that need to be traveled... but I'm also just starting to work with video and enjoying that more and more...
There is so much to learn, so much to see! The world is full of wonder, beauty and also a lot of nonsense to wonder about.
Surprisingly, Corona hasn't affected me much. Granted, all the events I was supposed to go to were canceled, but that didn't stop me from taking pictures, it just made me focus on other things. Even if there are no events, there is so much to document, photograph, write about and think about, and I enjoy the chance to do things differently for a while.
I haven't really documented Corona because I knew so many other photographers have done it very well, but instead it has opened my eyes to other things. There is so much to see...
SOME OF MY PROJECTS:
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)https://www.nika-kramer.com
https://www.instagram.com/nikakramer/
https://www.instagram.com/fladderfuenfhausen/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-oT7GqV5A
https://www.urbanspree.com/shop/de/street-artgraffiti/1109-martha-cooper-ninja-k-one-week-with-1up.html
https://www.redbullcontentpool.com/premium/photography/projects/baila-cuba
https://www.redbull.com/pk-en/nika-kramer-rise-of-the-bgirls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYjNfxG3XA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeJzMzslhf4
In 2008, Martha Cooper, legendary New York photographer and one of my best friends, had just upgraded from the Nikon D70 to the D700 and gave me her D70 with the words, "I think you could be a great photographer – do something with it!"
So in 2009, I went on a six-month trip to follow hip-hop culture in Mexico and Central America to write a blog and learn photography by watching a bunch of YouTube tutorials and training with Eva Lepiz from the local photographers association in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Grateful that I finally knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, I started freelancing photography for the Red Bull BC One Breakdance Worldchampionship in 2010, for which I had been working as a writer, blogger, web editor and cultural and social media manager until then.
I submitted my photos for the first time at the world finals in Tokyo in 2010, Red Bull Mediahouse loved them and from then on it went from strength to strength. If you visit redbullbcone.com, you'll find me there as one of the few female photographers featured by Red Bull.
I love the adrenaline rush before a competition, when you know you have to concentrate every second to not miss that crucial shot - the one moment that decides the winner. But I also love walking around a new city, finding my location, choosing my angles, setting up my portable lights (I love working with big lights!) and working with athletes and artists on the street.
In short, photographing movement, freezing the perfect moment, that's what makes me the happiest.
I really enjoy working with other photographers. There is so much we can learn from each other. Also, the work of a photographer can be very lonely. Most of what we do is editing, and that's mostly done at home in front of the computer, all alone.
In 2015 I started working for Urban Nation in Berlin, a big street art project and since 2017 also a museum for urban and contemporary art.
In 2016/2017 Martha Cooper and I worked on a very exciting photo project together. Take a look at the book One Week with 1UP and you'll understand what I mean by exciting!
Since 2019 I have been working for Wynwood Walls in Miami.
I love giving workshops for beginners and advanced students. It's so satisfying to see their faces the moment the information sinks in and it "clicks" and they realize that with a little extra knowledge, they can improve their images by so much. Hip-hop mentality: Each one teach one! Give something back!
A few years ago I funded Girlz Who Shoot, a collective of female photographers, but then my mother became seriously ill in January 2019 and so I've spent the last year and a half mainly looking after my parents. So the GWS project has been on hold for the last two years.
In 2018, Martha Cooper and I had very successfully started giving joint talks/exhibitions on hip hop/street art/photography at events around the world and had been booked for many more in 2019.
Unfortunately, my beloved mother had a brain hemorrhage in January 2019 and I have been mostly caring for her and my father in the country since then and I canceled all my travels in 2019, then, in 2020, Corona struck and there were no more events to go to.
It didn't hit me very hard though as I was looking after my mother anyway and I had started documenting the tiny village they live in, which is now my favorite project and one I find hard to tear myself away from. Check it out:
@fladderfuenfhausen
In 2020, I had the great honor of preparing Martha Cooper's images from 1960 to 2020 for print for her major photography retrospective at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin.
There are so many photography projects I still want to do - so many photos that need to be taken, books that need to be made, paths that need to be traveled... but I'm also just starting to work with video and enjoying that more and more...
There is so much to learn, so much to see! The world is full of wonder, beauty and also a lot of nonsense to wonder about.
Surprisingly, Corona hasn't affected me much. Granted, all the events I was supposed to go to were canceled, but that didn't stop me from taking pictures, it just made me focus on other things. Even if there are no events, there is so much to document, photograph, write about and think about, and I enjoy the chance to do things differently for a while.
I haven't really documented Corona because I knew so many other photographers have done it very well, but instead it has opened my eyes to other things. There is so much to see...
SOME OF MY PROJECTS:
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)https://www.nika-kramer.com
https://www.instagram.com/nikakramer/
https://www.instagram.com/fladderfuenfhausen/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-oT7GqV5A
https://www.urbanspree.com/shop/de/street-artgraffiti/1109-martha-cooper-ninja-k-one-week-with-1up.html
https://www.redbullcontentpool.com/premium/photography/projects/baila-cuba
https://www.redbull.com/pk-en/nika-kramer-rise-of-the-bgirls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYjNfxG3XA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeJzMzslhf4
Industry & size
Industry:
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Service for companies
- Other services
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Media
- Journalism
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Further services
- Culture and sport
Size range of the company:
1 to 4
Employees:
1
Last update on Jun 11, 2022.