Inspiration & Tips

Rankin's photographs are as elegant as they are provocative, as dynamic as they are cool, as creative as they are style-defining. The exhibition “Rankin – Zeitsprünge” (English: Leaps in Time) gives exciting and surprising insights into his work and illustrates why Rankin is one of the most sought-after and influential photographers of our time.

In the interview, Brynjar Ágústsson talks about the importance meditation plays in his way of photographing, the principles that guide him, and why psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung is one of his greatest sources of inspiration.

In an interview on the occasion of his exhibition “Equilibrium” in Wetzlar, Florian W. Müller reveals more about his love for nature and nature photography, his working methods and which creature will be the star of his next project.

Per Appelgren, born 1984, is a German-Swedish fashion photographer living between Cologne and Berlin. He has worked for brands such as Gucci, Baldessarini and Douglas and his photographs have appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar. Recently, his work was on display in the solo exhibition “VIVID” in Cologne - supported by WhiteWall.

Paul Sawyers lives in Brighton in the south of England. He studied illustration there, but now works as a photographer and silkscreen artist. In the interview, he reveals why he was practically born with an enthusiasm for photography and the role color plays in his photographs.

Francesco Fantini studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He lives and works in London since 2014. His photographs are published in various magazines and he was awarded the Sony World Photography Award in 2022. In the interview he tells how he works, which camera he mainly uses and which photographers inspire him.

Josh Wool grew up in the Low Country of South Carolina. After spending nearly a decade in New York, he currently lives with his wife in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. His first book of photographs “Modern Alchemy“ was published in 2015 and was produced as part of his work for the Artist’s Initiative Grant.

In this interview, David Szubotics talks about how he uses his most important source of inspiration - music - in his work and why he prefers to photograph friends and acquaintances.

In this interview, Mateusz Piesiak talks in detail about his passion for wildlife photography, where his latest trip took him, and how he prepares for his excursions.

In this interview, Colin Czerwinski reveals to us why photography is almost like a compulsion for him, where he draws his inspirations from and what excites him most about his work with NOICE Magazine.

In the interview Georgia Kontodimou tells us more about her inspiration, why she sees her work as “anti-portraits” and why the effect on the viewer is more of a byproduct of her motifs for her.

Søren Solkær is a Danish photographer who has gained worldwide renown for his distinctive portraits. In this interview, he tells us what inspired him to work on Black Sun and why he lived on nothing but rice and bananas for four months for the photography.

Burak Boylu lives and works in Izmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey. With the whimsical aesthetic of his smartphone images, he is reaching an ever-growing audience via social media.

Cody Cobb was titled one of the top 30 emerging photographers by PDN Magazine in 2018, and several of his photographs have won the International Photography Exhibition Award. In this interview, he talks more about how he got into photography and shares his experience of solitude in the wilderness.

The documentary photographer François Ollivier shows what he sees. His motifs seem intuitive, often as if they were created almost by chance, but in fact his approach is strongly conceptual. In the interview, he provides insights into his working method and how he approaches a motif mentally, what challenges he has had to overcome since his return from Canada and what for him is the great advantage of the new location in the south of France.

Ron Geipel is creating images without digital effects, using analog film, microorganisms and chemicals. With themes of life, chaos, transformation and coexistence, his images explore the ways in which nature can be changed and reinterpreted. He currently works between his home and São Paulo, Brazil.

Anthony Bockheim was born in Minot, North Dakota, USA, but now lives and works in South Korea, outside Seoul. Moving abroad quickly provided him with a wealth of new experiences and ultimately led to photography. His photographs are now exhibited internationally and have won several awards.

Dominique Brion grew up in Ghent, but has been living, working and photographing in Brussels for several years. He focuses on street photography and is also an art director and producer. In the interview you can find out more about his way of working, whether he likes shadows better than light and what it all has to do with a duck.

Hengki Koentjoro was born in 1963 in Semarang in Central Java, Indonesia. He received his first camera, a Kodak Pocket, as a gift for his eleventh birthday. From that moment on, photography was his passion and he trained first in Jakarta and then at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

Sasha Elage was born in 1980 in Leningrad and grew up in Lebanon and Russia as the son of a Finnish-Estonian-Russian mother and a Lebanese father. Today he lives in France. In the interview, he reveals the new projects he is currently working on, the photographers he admires and why there is no art on the walls of his house in France.

Francesco Gioia „became a photographer almost by accident“ when he took a job in a photojournalism agency in the historic centre of Florence. In the interview, he tells us more about his first camera why German cinema in particular inspires him and which photographers are role models for him.

Peter Kalnbach lives in Hamburg and describes himself as a visual storyteller. As a self-taught artist, he has his own unique approach to composition and image composition. The dark, often mysterious atmosphere of his motifs quickly attracted attention on social networks. In the interview, you can learn more about his working methods and what fascinates him so much about the neo-noir staging of urban scenes.

Andrew Rovenko is originally from Odessa in Ukraine, but moved to Australia more than fifteen years ago and now lives in Melbourne with wife Mariya and daughter Mia, the Rocketgirl. His photography project has won numerous international awards and Australian Photography Magazine selected Andrew as Photographer of the Year in 2021.

Art and creativity were present in Victoria Zabrodina's life from an early age: "I grew up in a creative family: my grandmother was a piano teacher, my grandfather was an amateur artist, my father was very fond of music in his youth, and now he is engaged in artistic woodcarving. Creativity has always been present in my life, and I've always looked for opportunities for self-expression."

Aris Sfakianos had an early inclination towards photography. His photographic path began in 2005 with astrophotography using a telescope and a compact camera, but went from there to landscape photography and finally to street photography.

Fascinated by everyday and curious subjects as metaphors, Dillon Versprille captures portraits of himself as well as mundane situations in the world around him. In the interview, he talks about, among other things, why he didn't take photographs at all for about seven years, why a theft led him to study biology, and how he goes about editing his images.

Thaddäus Biberauer also known as Hozzography lives and works in Austria. His work has been published in various photography magazines. In the interview he talks about his inspiration, his way of working and why he has “no more annoying deadlines” as a photographer.

The fine art and editorial photographer Gregory Prescott focuses on portraiture and nude photography, playing with the interaction of body shapes in his images.

Alex Burke reveals his own connection with nature in an impressive, emotional way in his motifs. There is always a hint of nostalgia in the colorful sunrises or scenes from the lonely, barren nature of the high prairies.

With her photographs Bella Kotak wants to take the viewer into dream worlds in which one can lose oneself. Her work appears in numerous magazines and has been featured in exhibitions in New York, London and Paris. In this interview we talk to her about her inspiration, her way of working and the role that nature plays in her photographs.

When we find a photography story that we are particularly fascinated by, the WhiteWall team is also more than happy to go out in person to become the models themselves while also documenting the process. This is exactly why our art directors Fabian Fischer and Sebastian Miller made their way to Berlin to meet professional photographer Maximilian Zeitler.

Milan Radisics describes himself as a visual storyteller. The internationally renowned photographer, artist and designer from Budapest works with a unique combination of art photography and photojournalism. In the interview, he talks about his experience with drone photography, his inspiration and why he wants to use his photography to motivate people to change their consumer behavior.

Edgar Berg is a German photographer and filmmaker living in Paris. His fascination with movement and light reflections is always present in his images. In the interview, he reveals what helps keep his work fresh and vibrant, what inspires him, and what color he doesn't like at all in his photographs.

Through her photography, Chiara Zonca presents a connection between her emotions and the environment. Her landscape photographs show the earth as a dream landscape untouched by humans, into which she can project her narratives. In this interview with WhiteWall she describes how she rediscovered photography as a form of expression, the role her dreams play in her work, and why she needs nature for her mental health.

Matthias Heiderich, who lives in Berlin by choice, studied computational linguistics and initially found his way to professional photography during his free time: “The idea of working in an office quickly became less attractive.” In the interview, he reveals what inspires him, how he himself perceives his style, and why photography is always represents a “bit of escapism“ for him as well.

A graduate of the Academy of Art University San Francisco, Jared Jurcak has a great deal of expertise in both traditional photography and vector illustration. This allows him a unique interpretation of still life photography, portraiture and graphic design. In the interview he tells us more about his understanding of photography and reveals what inspires him in his work.

Tara Workman is originally from Barbados, but she currently lives in the USA in Portland, Oregon where she enjoys the fantastic natural landscapes to find new subjects in lush green forests, vast deserts and along the wild and romantic Pacific coast. In this interview, she reveals more about her working method, how photography has been a godsend for her mental health, and which photographers inspire her.

Shivam Pandey's work is the result of his interest in discovery, exploring different places, engaging with local culture, and honoring individuals, their personalities and their lives. In this interview, he explains how he got into photography, what inspires him, and gives us an exclusive insight into a new portrait project featuring the farmers of his home town near Varanasi.

Paloma Rincon is a Mexican-born, Madrid-based, global photographer. After graduating with a degree in audiovisual communications, she first began by assisting commercial photographers while also developing her own projects. In this interview, Paloma shares how she got interested in photography and what inspires her colorful images.

Guido Klumpe was born in Osnabrück in 1971. Despite his congenital visual impairment, he became passionate about photography at an early age. In this interview, Guido Klumpe tells us who introduced him to photography in his youth, what inspires him and how he works.

Réhahn reveales exciting insights into his life and work in Vietnam, explaining what fascinates him so much about this country and describing his projects.

Looking for something new, the successful photographer Marc Fischer launched a social media project dedicated to architecture in his hometown of Düsseldorf.

Felix visited the WhiteWall photo lab in Frechen near Cologne and talked to us about his 3D work. “During my work as a freelance reportage, portrait and experimental photographer, I realized that I can't realize my ideas with the camera the way I would like to.”

Pia Hungerberg loves to travel to distant countries and learn about new cultures. The up-and-coming talent from Cologne is better known to her growing fan base as piaeliza on social media platform Instagram, where Pia's travels – to Scotland, South Africa or Norway, for example – can be experienced in beautiful, atmospheric images.

Tom Westbury is drawn to the outskirts, forgotten corners and urban peripheries. “Even a city that lacks conventional beauty or landmarks has unlimited potential for photography.” The photographer comes from Hampshire, England, and a large part of his photography has come from his constant explorations of his homeland. Westbury prefers to let his photos speak for themselves.

The British-born, New York-based photographer Phil Penman has been documenting the rapid changes on the streets of New York City for over 25 years. He has photographed global stars and captured historic moments such as the September 11 terrorist attacks for clients including The New York Review of Books and The Guardian.

Berlin-based photographer Paul Eis stages classical architecture through photography, mixes different styles and digitally processes his photos into intense worlds of colour.

Irina Bittner is a talented photographer from Cologne and she often deals with the subject of identity in her atmospheric photographs.

In her artistic practice, she explores the relationship between nature and artificiality. It is primarily ephemeral substances such as mist, clouds or light that are the focus of her works, where they encounter man-made constructs, be it through technology or spatiality.

The international jury of experts at the TIPA World Awards honored the photo lab for yet another advanced innovation in the photographic industry. In the category for "Best Photo Lab", WhiteWall made quite an impression with its revolutionary WhiteWall RoomView. 

Award-winning photographer Robert Jahns combines artistic photography with surreal, extraordinary imagery. The WhiteWall Ambassador takes viewers away to a fantasy world where reality and dreams become one and the same. 

Hamburg-based photographer Anna Laudan creates her own reality through artistically composed architecture photographs. Laudan has shown her work in numerous exhibitions and shared her expertise in the book Photoshop CC for Lightroom Users.

The WhiteWall Ambassadors are among the most talented and influential photographers worldwide, and each of them has their own visual idiom. The genre “Fine Art & Portrait“ focuses on the Chinese photographer Suxing Zhang.

In the photographic series “Kraftorte – Waldbilder“ Erik Chmil presents the forest as a meditative place, as an unlimited space for relaxation and healing.

Deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, tribal feuds collide with political conflicts and colonial wars. In the country’s history spanning millennia, it has only experience a few short breaths of political unity.

Summer is a wonderful time of year for photography because it offers an abundance of natural light and vibrant colors. We'll give you helpful tips on how to get the most out of your shots at any time of day.

There are no limits to the imagination. With a bright passepartout, the pattern is brought to the forefront, with darker tones it recedes and the observer is encouraged to confront the work for longer. Passepartouts with haptic linen surfaces look especially elegant - in natural white, black or ivory.

Silent icy landscapes, shiny pine cones and snow-covered treetops - an inspiring season is dawning for photographers. Jan-Ole Schmidt gives valuable tips for successful winter pictures.

In the digital age, it is extremely easy to store your photographs in virtual space. Since you can access your pictures, edit them, email them, post them online, or print them at will, it might almost be more difficult to lose photos these days than it is to save them!

A photo is going viral around the world: Hamburg's Police Department made a picture of a golden sunset - out of a helicopter. The panorama picture shows the light-flooded city from its most beautiful side and has reached more than 3.7 million Facebook users.

The language of images used by WhiteWall Ambassador Chantal Weber is extremely rich. The Hamburg photographer has a feel for balanced image compositions and shows this through her fine lines.

The "storm season" in Germany begins at the end of April. Sunshine results in higher temperatures, and the temperate atmospheric layers shift. This is the beginning of an exciting time for photographers - but if you want to photograph storms, you need a lot of time and patience.