Born in Kiel, Germany, Thomas Hoeffgen fell in love with photography while working on a ship full of juvenile delinquents. The job was part of his mandatory national civic service (performed in lieu of military service), and as the boat sailed around the Canary Islands Hoeffgen e livened up the situation by shooting portraits of the kids, capturing spontaneous personal moments as well as the passing scenery. This was the beginning of Hoeffgen's pictorial relationship with movement, foreshadowing his enduring ability to record fleeting moments in a reduced, minimalistic, and cinematic style.

After finishing his civic service, he moved to Spain at the age of twenty to assist the Mallorca-based art photographer Elizabeth Schäufler. Even before completing photography school, Thomas began shooting for prestigious sports clients such as Burton, Oxbow, and O'Neill, travelling all over the world to photograph advertising campaigns and capture their athletes on camera.

This early work brought him into contact with fashion and advertising clients such as Timberland, Renault, Diesel, Maybelline, Escada, Laurel, Adidas, Microsoft, BMW, Swatch, Audi, Red Bull, and Camel Active, all of whom were attracted by Thomas's laidback, carefree style and by his energy and graphic simplicity.

His work has been published in magazines such as Art, Blend, British Journal of Photography, El Pais, FAZ, GQ ,Stern, SZ-Magazin, Spex, Instyle, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, PDN, Anglomania, Wallpaper, Zoom, NZZ, Playboy, and Outside Magazine.

He has exhibited in Hamburg (Dormoolen), Duesseldorf (NRW-Forum), Munich (Goldberg Studio), Salem (Schloss Salem), Grasten (Atelier Corn Benniksgaard), Lisbon (Canon Gallery), And most recenty in Berlin's Ausweartiges Amt and Nuernberg's Kuenstlerhaus, both in 2010.

Book: Thomas Hoeffgen's African Arenas was published in 2010 by Hatje Cantz (edited by Nadine Barth).

He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.

Bèla Adler and Salvador Fresneda are a couple of Catalan photographers based in Barcelona, Spain. They live and work in a daylight studio loft close to the sea, with her 9 year old daughter.

They met in 1989 in a Duane Michals seminar. Two years later they started working together on a project assigned by Camper (a Spanish shoe company).

Bèla has a degree in Graphic Design and studied Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Barcelona. In 1985/86 she worked one year at the graphic design department of the I.C.P. in New York and attended a course on photography at the same I.C.P.

Salvador is a self-made man, with a special gift for lighting and space. He also went through graphic design and attended a photography school in Barcelona. Ever since they met they have worked together.

Fashion clients: Burberry , Camper, Woman Secret, Escorpion. Loewe, Dorotea, Cortefiel, Caroche, Aninoto, Acosta, Zone, El Corte Inglés, Antonio Miró, Levi’s, Trucco, etc. Editorials: Elle, Chic, Telva, Marie Claire, Vogue, El Pais, AB, Big, Matador, B-Guided, Vanidad, Glamour, GQ, Trax, Woman, Yo Dona, etc.

In 1994 awarded with the European Graphic Campaign for Levi’s. In 1995 for the catalogue of fashion designer Antonio Miro in the British DAD Annual. In 1999 awarded by the European Design Annual for Camper Shoe Promotion World Wide Campaign. In 2003 the Grand Prix of the Festival de Publicidad de San Sebastian, for Kiwi promotion. In 2004 silver award on graphics at the el Sol Festival of San Sebastian for the BMW-Z4 campaign. In 2006 bronze award for the Magnum Campaign in Latin America. In 2006 golden award Laus for the antidrugs campaign.

Jamie Nelson is a New York based Fashion and Beauty Photographer with work shown in numerous international publications, ad campaigns and billboards. nelson recently participated in a new museum/chandelier art exhinit in new york as well as a collective exhibit in rome.

Editorial:
Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, Oyster Magazine, The Saturday Times, The Independent Sunday review, ES, Whistles Instyle, 19 Management

Advertising:
Whistles, Marks & Spencers, T-Mobile, Boots, BHS, Debenhams, Boden Cataogue

Celebrities:
Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Mathew Williamson, Emauelle Ungaro, Alice Temperley, Jasper Conran, Frost French, Clements Ribeiro, Zandra Rhodes, Jamie Cullum, Will Young, Rory Bremner, Ruby Wax

Ulrike was born in Munich in 1974.

She studied photography at the Berlin Lette Verein (1999-2002) and worked as a freelance assistant for several German photographers. Ulrike is working as a freelance photographer in Munich since 2005.

Her work is focused on Still, Interior and Architecture.

"For me, photography means to see the world with more than just my eyes. From many different perspectives I search for the perfect one to create vivid images that convince in their authenticity, concept and professionalism."

"The search for new challenges will always be at the centre of my attention."