Klaus Mellenthin
Klaus JA Mellenthin (born December 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a German photographer .
Life
Upon completion of the Friedrich-Eugens-Gymnasium Stuttgart , Mellenthin first took up an internship with the photo journalist Uli Kraufmann. He then did community service . During this time he worked as a photo reporter for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten in the departments Local, Region and for the newly founded city magazine lift operates. In 1991 he attended the Johannes Gutenberg School in Stuttgart for professional training as a photographer and completed the integrated practical period at pro-studios .
After successfully completing his degree, he initially assisted various photographers, especially in Paris, and decided to work as a freelance photographer in Germany. His first customers include Henkel in the area of do-it-yourself product lines and Motor Presse Stuttgart Verlag. In 2000 Mellenthin moved to Barcelona for four years and in 2008 for three years to Paris; he then worked in London for almost a year. After several years of professional experience abroad, he initially worked from Stuttgart, and since 2013 from Berlin.
activity
With freelance work initially in New York City, Los Angeles, Cairo and Barcelona on architecture, urban spaces and social issues, Mellenthin made a name for himself in the fields of fashion , street live and portraiture . During his time in Paris, in addition to recordings for the music, fashion and travel industries for u. a. Paris Match , Illy Magazin and Madame in Morocco, also added free photo reports in Uganda, Egypt and Kyrgyzstan. In doing so, he combined portrait, advertising and industrial photography with documentary motifs beyond commercial glitter.
The company Rodenstock -Fotooptik portrayed him in 2009 as photographer of the month with three photo series on the areas of city landscapes , Hamburg 2005 and cityscapes , quote Mellenthin: “I am fascinated by people and their stories, I am fascinated by cities and their diversity, I face opposites and Puzzle. So what do my photos show? Quite simply: life. Nothing more and nothing less. ”In 2010 the BFF jury accepted him into the renowned association of freelance photo designers . In the same year he received the German Prize for Science Photography in the single image category . Since 2012 he has also been a member of the English Association of Photographers (AOP), London. For the Foundation eye in Munich he was in 2013 a member of the jury for the photography competition: See the focus he was called, also in the jury as part of the Andreas Feininger photo contest 2013, the City Museums Heilbronn .
To this day, he works in the field of tension between free and applied photography and combines street photography and his documentary recordings with additional intensive studio work as far as possible. Mellenthin prefers the precise point of view of fine art techniques and deals with the subject or the person to be portrayed before the actual photo session. His works reflect less a retouched, digital image than the human contact with the fundamentally always individual motif.
Klaus JA Mellenthin works internationally in the categories of portraits, travel, architecture as well as for the industrial and communication sectors. For campaigns for aid projects, etc. a. he traveled to the St. Moses Children Care Center to Uganda, for MISEREOR to Burkina Faso and to Brazil to the favelas of Belo Horizonte and Vietnam.
In March 2018 he was elected to the board of the BFF and completed the expansion of the definition, which was originally limited to classic photography , to become the professional association of free photographers and film designers. V. Furthermore, Mellenthin's tasks are to network the BFF with politics and civil society as well as to represent the association through lectures, exhibitions, specialist seminars, etc. a. as part of the annual, internationally renowned photo festival “Horizonte” on the Baltic peninsula of Zingst , at Photokina , Cologne and abroad.
Awards
- Rodenstock Photo Optics 2009: Photographer of the Month, three photo series
- BFF (professional) 2010: added
- Surpress 2010, Issue 18: German Prize for Scientific Photography, Category Single Image
- Association of Photographers (AOP) 2012: included
- ADC Shortlist 2015: Category CRAFT / Photography
Exhibitions, publications (selection)
- 1999 Urban spaces , photo series
- 2000 Urban Water , photo series
- 2000 The shadow ring, exhibition, Designer Saturday, SCHAPP - the effects room
- 2002 LA - CAIRO (the time during the Second Iraq War ), free work
- 2003 Urban Spaces , Exhibition, Photo Summer Stuttgart, Meeting Point Gallery, Stuttgart
- 2003 Contest-Caraoke / Das Deutsche Handwerk , Galerie Rainer Wehr, (group exhibition) Stuttgart
- 2004 HH1.0 - HH2.1 , Free Labor
- 2006 Galerie Buch und Bär, (group exhibition) Stuttgart
- 2007 Die Weissenhofer, the Weissenhof is in the Walistal , (group exhibition) Städtische Galerie Reutlingen
- 2007 Stars of the South, Uganda St. Moses Children's Care Center , Siegel Concept, Stuttgart
- 2008 Die Weissenhofer - Satellites , Künstlerhaus Dortmund in cooperation with the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmunder Kunstverein
- 2008 Africa up close - Uganda , Stuttgart City Hall, embedded in Stuttgart Night
- 2009 Africa Up Close - Uganda , Festival Du Grand Cerf, Paris
- 2009 Die Weissenhofer: The Egypt trip , Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (catalog)
- 2009 Die Weissenhofer: Die Egyptreise , E-Werk, Freiburg
- 2010 Safety concerns everyone , (group exhibition) Stuttgart City Hall
- 2010 Focus 0711: Kult , Die Weissenhofer , (group exhibition) Württembergischer Kunstverein , photo summer Stuttgart special show
- 2010 Gegenlicht21 , (group exhibition) Württembergischer Kunstverein
- 2011 Radical Research - The Roots of Science , Die Weissenhofer , (group exhibition) Ulmer Museum
- 2011 Blues for the blue planet , (group exhibition) BFF, Stern, Kodak, Leica in the Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart
- 2012 The Final Show , Galerie ak1, (group exhibition) Stuttgart
- 2012 Radical Research - The Roots of Science , Die Weissenhofer, (group exhibition) Galerie der Stadt Backnang
- 2012 Belt Lines , Galerie Schacher, (group exhibition) Stuttgart
- 2012 freedom, equality, solidarity. Bertelsmann Foundation 2012, ISBN 978-3-86793-345-2 .
- 2013 Freedom - a photographic essay (Online Exhibition) AOP
- 2013 The face! (Group exhibition) Württembergischer Kunstverein
- 2014 Human - staged photography , (group exhibition) Gallery for Photography, Neuköllner Leuchtturm, Berlin
- 2014 6th surcharge , (group exhibition) BFF exhibition, Hamburg
- 2015 Mock , (group exhibition) Gallery for Photography Neuköllner Leuchtturm. Berlin
- 2015 7th surcharge , (group exhibition) Rindermarkthalle, Hamburg
- 2015 Wildcard , BFF exhibition, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin
- 2015 Eyes wide , (group exhibition) Galerie Schacher, Stuttgart
- 2015 Triebwerk , BFF exhibition, large spinning mill tour, Leipzig
- 2015 Triebwerk , BFF exhibition, Bikini-Berlin, Berlin
- 2015 Das Passagenwerk , (group exhibition) Die Weissenhofer, Klett-Passage, Stuttgart
- 2015 Celebration , (group show) AOP exhibition, London
- 2016 Unpublished , (group exhibition) Barlach Halle K, Hamburg
- 2016 Sven-Thorsten , (group exhibition) RETOX waiting room, Stuttgart
- 2016 Novelle , (group exhibition) Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
- 2016 Reduction , (group exhibition) Kant-Garagen Palast, Berlin
- 2017 From Dusk Till Dawn , (group exhibition) BFF Pop-Up-Gallery, Berlin
- 2017 Uncomissioned , (group exhibition) Barlach Halle K, Hamburg
- 2017 RAW - the decisive Moment , (group exhibition) Photo Weekend, Düsseldorf
- 2017 Sicht · we · se , (group exhibition) BFF Photoweeks, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart
- 2018 Transmission , (group exhibition) Chinese Art Photography Festival, Sanmenxia , China
- 2018 Reverse Forward , (group exhibition) European Month of Photography, EMOP, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
- 2018 That had to be , (group exhibition) Barlach Halle K, Hamburg
- 2018 Black , (group exhibition) Photokina, Cologne
Lectures (selection)
- 2013 Eye Foundation , jury member at the photo competition, art auction; also election to the regional board of the BFF Region Berlin
- 2017 Social Campaigning , Photography Lab / Olympus Perspective Playgrounds, Berlin
- 2018 Social Campaigning , Professional Stage, Photokina , Cologne
- 2018 Social Campaigning , BFF Triebwerk, Berlin
- 2018 Social Campaigning , NRW Forum , Düsseldorf
- 2018 About Photography - Soft Skills , moderation panel discussion, Photokina, Cologne
Web links
- official homepage
- Abendzeitung München: Sexy GZSZ: hot shoot with the stars
- L'Oeil de la Photographie 2014 (English)
- Freedom - A Photographic Essay, AOP (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magical Wonderland Morocco. Madame, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Photographer of the Month: The Photographer - Klaus JA Mellenthin. ( Memento from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Portrait: Klaus Mellenthin. Wissenschaft.de , accessed on September 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Photo competition. (PDF) Stiftung Auge, accessed on February 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Fashion. BFF, accessed February 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Cotonea, cotton project in Uganda. cotonea.de, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Cotonea, cotton project in Kyrgyzstan. cotonea.de, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
- ↑ ALPA of Switzerland. alfa.ch, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mellenthin, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mellenthin, Klaus YES |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |