André M. Hünseler

André M. Hünseler on Venice Beach in California, USA

André Michael Hünseler (born July 4, 1981 in Cologne ) is a German photo artist , lecturer and author . He was best known for taking photos of his hometown Cologne at night.

Life

Hünseler began his professional career in 2000 with an apprenticeship as a design assistant for media and communication at the Richard Riemerschmid vocational college in Cologne. From 2001 to 2003 he headed the student council as school spokesman, was involved as a member of the school steering group in the North Rhine-Westphalian pilot project "School 21 - Independent School" for greater freedom of self-administration for Cologne schools and taught a differentiation course in digital compositing himself before completing his training . During his three-year professional training, he also discovered his passion for photography and image processing.

After completing his training at the vocational college, Hünseler initially worked for several years as creative director for media companies in the m-commerce sector in Cologne and Melbourne , until he started his own business as a service provider for multidisciplinary design and image processing at the beginning of 2009 under the name thinking pixels mediendesign . In the field of photo design, he concentrated early on on those shooting areas that go beyond simple conventional photography. For example, in 2009 he photographed the panorama picture “Cologne-8-Gigapixels” for an advertising agency in Cologne, which with a resolution of over 8,000 megapixels represented the fifth largest digital photo in the world at the time.

His city photos are exhibited in galleries, available as art prints, in calendars, illustrated books, on posters and postcards. In addition, he teaches professional image processing with Adobe Photoshop and various disciplines of photography as a lecturer and private trainer. His calendar Cologne Panorama (published on July 19, 2012 by DuMont Kalenderverlag) was awarded the highest award (gold) at the Gregor International Calendar Award 2013. In total, one calendar was awarded a gold award in ten different categories. Hünseler prevailed against a total of 858 calendars submitted by competitors in the cities / architecture category.

Exhibitions and awards (selection)

• 2003 animago award, 2nd place, category: Compositing Music Video
• 2011–2015 permanent exhibition "Kölner Blickwinkel", THE ARTROOM, Cologne
• 2013 Gregor International Calendar Award, Gold Award

Works and publications (selection)

calendar

• Cologne at night 2012, DuMont calendar publisher, ISBN 978-3-8320-1785-9 .
• Cologne at night 2013, DuMont calendar publisher, ISBN 978-3-8320-2140-5 .
• Cologne at night 2014, DuMont calendar publisher, ISBN 978-3-8320-2505-2 .
• Cologne at night 2015, DuMont calendar publisher, ISBN 978-3-8320-2745-2 .
• Cologne at night 2016, DuMont calendar publisher, ISBN 978-3-8320-3352-1 .
• Cologne Panorama (2012; everlasting), DuMont calendar publisher, ISBN 978-3-8320-2184-9 .

Books

• 2014 illustrated book "Cologne's most beautiful pages", Medien-Verlag-Schubert, ISBN 978-3-937843-42-1 .

Technical articles and lectures

• TION 2011, Lecture "NightScapes - Architectural Photography at Night"
• Advanced Photoshop 2/2011, artist portrait André M. Hünseler, Sonic Media Verlag.
• PROFIFOTO 7-8 / 2011, Highly dynamic photos with style - the aDRI workflow, PF Publishing GmbH
• Pictures Magazin 2/2012, The perfect night shot, Sonic Media Verlag
• The photo editor 3/2012, architectural photography at night, Sonic Media Verlag.
• Pictures Magazin 3/2012, SteamPunk Special, cover sheet + article, Sonic Media Verlag
• DOCMA Edition 50, 2013, Photoshop Tips & Tricks, DOCMAtische Gesellschaft Verlags GmbH
• DOCMA Edition 54, 2013, Dodge & Burn Techniques in Photoshop, DOCMAtische Gesellschaft Verlags GmbH
• Photoshop User Group Rhein / Ruhr, lecture "NightScapes - Architectural Photography at Night"
• DOCMA issue 56, 2014, image processors and their cameras, DOCMAtische Gesellschaft Verlags GmbH
• DOCMA 1/2013, Photoshop Tips & Tricks, DOCMAtische Gesellschaft Verlags GmbH

Web links

• Official website
• Official online gallery
• Feedback to the exhibition "Kölner Blickwinkel"
• Literature by and about André M. Hünseler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 8 gigapixels: Pixel magician shoots Cologne record photo. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Gregory International Calendar Award / 80 Verlag Calendar awards / boersenblatt.net. In: www.boersenblatt.net. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Kölner Blickwinkel - Kölner.de. May 27, 2011, accessed July 19, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Winner publishers | Gregor award. (No longer available online.) In: www.gregor-calendar-award.com. Archived from the original on July 25, 2016 ; Retrieved July 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ speakers. (No longer available online.) In: TION 2011. Archived from the original on July 19, 2016 ; Retrieved July 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.