Guido Karp

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Guido Karp and Angus Young (AC / DC), London, August 2008

Guido Karp (born January 23, 1963 in Mayen , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German photographer.

Life

Guido Karp grew up in Koblenz . As a schoolboy, he took photos for the school newspaper of the Eichendorff-Gymnasium and took artist and concert photos. In 1976 his photo of Otto Waalkes was published in the Rhein-Zeitung . A year later, several photos of the then 14-year-old could be seen in a group exhibition in the Liebfrauenkirche in Koblenz. During this time, the advertising photographer Hans Joachim Bischoff became Karp's mentor. In 1978 Karp had his first own exhibition in “Le Café” in Boppard . He made his first record cover for Thomas Anders ' record I don't want your life . 1983 appeared with a recording of Wham! for the first time a photo of Karp on the cover of Bravo magazine . In the same year, immediately after graduating from high school, Karp entered the photo scene and worked as a freelancer for Bravo and Bild .

After prematurely finishing his military service in 1984, Karp began studying German and journalism in Mainz , which he broke off to study photo design in Darmstadt . In 1986 Karp did an internship at Newton Studios in Sydney . In the same year he photographed a concert tour in Australia for the first time. Artists were Elton John and The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra . Through his contacts with the European music media, Karp became an intermediary for Australian pop and rock 'n' roll bands in Europe. From then on he was booked as a photographer for tours and received orders and a. by AC / DC , Modern Talking , Genesis , John Farnham and Michael Jackson . Guido Karp also worked z. B. for Tokio Hotel , Bon Jovi , Die Flippers , HIM , Backstreet Boys , Dire Straits , Tina Turner , Rammstein . He photographed up to 250 shows a year.

In 1988 Karp founded the concert photo agency “The FAN Association” together with his assistant at the time, Oliver Brenneisen. The name “The FAN Association” refers to the fact that, unlike traditional picture agencies, this agency not only sold its photos to print and other media, but also directly to concert-goers based on world-exclusive license agreements with the artists shown. The first three projects of “The FAN Association” were photo series by Spandau Ballet , Howard Carpendale and “ The Wall ” with Pink Floyd at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. In 2000, as part of internationalization, the agency had to be renamed “FansUNITED”, because the word “Association” is reserved for charitable associations with regard to a company name in New Zealand and Canada .

Between 2001 and 2009 there was a collaboration between Guido Karp and the director and light artist Gert Hof , whose mega-events Karp photographed. Photos of him appeared in the two Gert Hof illustrated books "Obsessions" (2003) and "Leasing the sky" (2006). Since 2002 Guido Karp has been the lead photographer of the internationally most successful before-and-after show “Princess for one day” (P41D) and a regular tutorial guest at the “ Photokina ” photo fair . Karp continues his audience-oriented performances in the context of national and international workshop series. Since 2006 Karp has been involved in the project he initiated "Photography instead of violence in schools".

To date, Guido Karp has taken cover photos for more than 1,000 music CDs and DVDs, including both the cover photo of the world's best-selling single " Elton John - Candle in the Wind " and that of the world's best-selling music DVD " Robbie Williams - Live at the Albert “. Karp has been married to Nicole Karp since 2004 and lives in Los Angeles . Karp gave up his residence in Höhr-Grenzhausen in 2013.

In 2017/2018, in addition to his activities as a music photographer, Karp will be the focal point of the Sat1 / Pro7 / sixx campaign for the photo beauty event “Princess for one day” for the 15th time. The Guinness Book of Records currently checks whether a single photographer has ever photographed so many individual people.

Exhibitions, memberships

  • In 2007 Karp gave a lecture at CeBIT on the subject of Is photography today a question of the material battle? The photographic implementation of his credo “It is the photographer who takes the picture, not the camera” found expression in the book The Nudes with nude photos that Karp took with a mobile phone. Until then, professional photography with cell phones was unknown. This was followed by a series of exhibitions across Europe.
  • In 2008 Guido Karps' portrait photos by Keith Richards and Andy Klein were on view in a group exhibition at the Landesmuseum Koblenz . Both photos were included in the collection of important art in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
  • In 2009 Karp initiated an international exhibition project entitled “Singvögel”, a retrospective of his work as a concert photographer, in the context of which his well-known photos a. a. by the Rolling Stones and Robbie Williams .
  • In 2009 Karp and his legendary Sting portrait were photographed by Tim Mantoani for his project of the "200 most relevant contemporary photographers" with a 20 × 24-inch Polaroid camera. The photo has since been part of the exhibition series “Behind Photographs - Archiving Photographic Legends”. In October 2011, the book of the same name with all 200 photos was published in New York.
  • Karp is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). Since 1999 he has been officially registered as an artist with the Copyright Office of the USA. His work is listed as particularly worthy of protection at www.copyright.gov.
  • From 2012 to 2014 Karp was the main jury member for the LEA Live Entertainment Award .
  • In 2013/2014 Karp toured Europe on the occasion of his 50th birthday with the exhibition concept “Singvögel” - a retrospective of his work as a concert photographer. The German automobile manufacturer Opel paid tribute to this activity and built an Opel Adam for him with all of his best photos.
  • Beginning of 2014: a highly acclaimed business tutorial tour through 50 universities and art colleges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
  • 2015/2016 tours with AC / DC, KISS, U2. Large practice workshop tour with the renowned Playboy photographer David Mecey. Again lead photographer for "Princess for one day"

Awards

  • Guido Karp was nominated for the Music Photographer of the Year award in 1987, 1988 and 1992, which he won in 1988 and 1992.
  • In 2002 Karp was accepted in New York as one of ten photographers in the series of "Leading photographers of the world".

CD cover (selection)

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ discogs.com
  2. ↑ bravo.de
  3. ^ "Genesis": free concert in Rome
  4. ↑ fotocommunity.de
  5. ↑ amazon.de
  6. ↑ ao-technology.com
  7. ↑ amazon.de
  8. ↑ photoscala.de
  9. ↑ cameraphonereport.com ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ avisko.de (PDF)
  11. ↑ mantoaniblog.com ( Memento from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ cocatalog.loc.gov
  13. ↑ fotocommunity.de
  14. ↑ amazon.de
personal data
SURNAME Karp, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, concert photographer and former head of FansUNITED
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen , Rhineland-Palatinate