Gabriele Oestreich
Gabriele Oestreich-Trivellini (born April 15, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German photographer . Since 1985 she has been portraying prominent personalities from politics, sport, film and television under her stage name GABO .
Life
Oestreich-Trivellini grew up as the child of a lawyer and an art dealer in Hamburg-Harvestehude . She began to be interested in photography as a teenager, but initially worked as a photo model for ten years. She got assignments in Milan, London and Paris. In 1985 she decided to pick up the camera herself and applied to Stern . Since then she has been using the stage name GABO.
Her portrait photo of Herbert Grönemeyer , which appeared on the front page of the magazine on May 22, 1986, made her known as a photographer overnight. Several photo sessions in the following years with Boris Becker , later with Barbara Becker, shaped the image of the tennis player in the following years.
She photographed Helmut Schmidt , Gerhard Schröder and Alice Schwarzer , Peter Ustinov , Warren Beatty , Kevin Costner and Eric Clapton , Uwe Ochsenknecht , André Eisermann and Moritz Bleibtreu , Veronica Ferres , Jasmin Tabatabai and Franka Potente ; Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Nina Hagen , Campino , Rosenstolz and Peter Maffay for Stern, L'Uomo Vogue , Spiegel and Rolling Stone .
Gabo was also the regular photographer of the band Die Toten Hosen and regularly photographed the members for decades. The cover photos for the albums Reich & sexy and Love, Peace & Money were taken in her studio. She helped direct the video Paradise .
In between, Gabo traveled to the rainforest for a photo report about crocodiles, or took photos in Uganda to report on AIDS.
She photographed erotic for Playboy and fashion for Brigitte . There were occasional advertising photos for, for example, Audi , or Dresdner Bank . As an animal rights activist, Gabo refused to photograph people in fur. Better naked than in fur was also the motto of the animal welfare organization PETA for the 2002 Die Toten Hosen posed naked in front of their camera.
Gabo has a son (* 1987) and moved her main residence to Mallorca in 1999. She also lived in an apartment in Potsdam , where her mother and son also lived. She currently lives in the countryside near Berlin.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2005: Big Shots at Jades , Camerawork Gallery, Hamburg
- 2006: Tuessling Castle, Munich
- 2006: Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
- 2007: Espace Miramar, Canes
- 2007: Liaisons Erotiques , Lumas Editionsgalerie, Berlin
- 2008: GABO Analog , Theatergalerie Bremen
- 2017: GABO FAME presented by LUMAS, 10. – 17. September 2017 Humboldt-Box , Schloßplatz (Berlin)
Illustrated books
GABO: Big Shots , teNeues Verlag, Kempen, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8327-9172-8 .
Web links
- official homepage
- Lights on, eyes open. in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5./6. November 2011, page C 2.
- Literature by and about Gabriele Oestreich in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moments between woman and man. Hamburger Abendblatt from January 9, 1990, accessed on May 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Gabo - at 14 it clicked. Hamburger Abendblatt from July 26, 2005, accessed on May 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Better naked than in fur. PETA , accessed November 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Gabriele Oestreich-Trivellini - GABO: The light worker . Article on focused.com from November 20, 2008.
- ↑ Contact - Imprint // GABO Photos. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oestreich, Gabriele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gabo (stage name); Oestreich-Trivellini, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |