The nagging fear of
not being good enough
constantly drives me to
improve on my work.

   
         

> > FIELDS
·   reportage
·   science & technology
·   portrait

> > EQUIPMENT
·   4x5" large format (Linhof Technika)
·   digital SLR with 24 million px
·   studio flash equipment

> > CURRICULUM VITAE
·   born in 1964 in Düsseldorf/Germany
·   training as graphic designer, Munich
·   1990-93 graphic designer
·   1993-95 artwork / art director
    with ‘natur’ magazine
·   since 1996 freelance photographer
·   represented by VISUM agency, Hamburg
·   contributor to Aurora Photos (the Americas)
·   lives in Hamburg/Germany

 

 

> > AWARDS

·   1998 World Press Photo:
    2nd prize Science & Technology singles and
    2nd prize Science & Technology stories
    (picture story on ‘Plastination’)

·   1998 World Press Photo:
    ‘Mayor’s Award’, Prague (‘Plastination’)

·   1999 ‘Wissenschaft Visuell 99’:
    3rd prize singles (‘Cancer Research’)

·   2000 ‘Wissenschaft Visuell 2000’:
    2nd prize singles
    (‘Communication via Brainwaves’)

·   2002 ‘Wissenschaft Visuell 2002’:
    1st prize stories (‘Mongolian-German
    Karakorum-Expedition’)

·   2005 ‘Bilder der Forschung’:
    1st prize (‘Cancer Research’)

 

·   2006 ‘German Award for Science
    Photography’: 3rd prize
    (‘Leonardo’s Last Supper’)

·   2008 ‘Bilder der Forschung’:
    1st prize (‘Photometry’)

> > INTERVIEW

Photographer Marc Steinmetz talks with
editor Gerald Traufetter (‘Der Spiegel’) about:
·   the beginnings
·   science photography
·   his tricks
·   challenges
·   personal style

Print version

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