Johannes Knuth

Johannes Knuth is based in Ham­burg and spe­cialised in peo­ple and lifestyle pho­tog­ra­phy. He finds the light and loca­tions for his motifs worldwide. His authen­tic and emo­tional pho­tog­ra­phy shows the lust for life cap­tured in every­day moments. Johannes vision is to inspire and encour­age peo­ple to see their own nat­ural beauty and power.

VITA

1979 first time open­ing his eyes in Herdecke, Ger­many | 1989 dis­cov­er­ing his envi­ron­ment with daddy’s para­chute cam­era | as a shy teen start­ing to stage sit­u­a­tions with the sweet­est girls and not just falling in love with pho­tog­ra­phy | 1999 liv­ing and work­ing as a teacher in sunny Miami | 2000 trav­el­ling to New York to visit Bruce Weber and work­ing as a stu­dioas­sis­tant at the fab­u­lous Pier59 Stu­dios for the victoria’s secret shoot­ing with Tyra Banks shooted by Patrick Demarche­lier | 2001 assist­ing for var­i­ous inter­na­tional pho­tog­ra­phers such as Sigrid Rothe, Gio­vanni Castell, Ger­hard Lin­neko­gel, Vic­tor Kum­mer, Esther Haase, Thirza Schaap, Flo­rian Geiss et cetera | find­ing in bud­dhist, philoso­pher, poet and pho­tog­ra­pher Daisaku Ikeda a great men­tor for life | sur­viv­ing a chal­leng­ing time with jobs as a hot-air bal­lon chaser, beer ser­vice man dur­ing st. pauli soc­cer cups and as a trucker | open­ing eyes in a chal­leng­ing world, with a strong deter­mi­na­tion and the power of joy real­iz­ing his ideas

2009

Start­ing as free­lance pho­tog­ra­pher based in Ham­burg | nom­i­nated for the «Canon Profi­foto Förder­preis» | par­tic­i­pat­ing with var­i­ous works at the group instal­la­tion «we are all pho­tog­ra­phers now!», New York Photo Fes­ti­val 2009, NYC, orga­nized by Musée de IElysée, Lau­sanne | group exi­bi­tion «Selb­st­por­trait», Gallery Castell, Ger­many | «Fre­und­schaft» group exhi­bi­tion Gallery PPP Graz, Austria

2010

Par­tic­i­pat­ing with the series «Tokio» at the group instal­la­tion «all pho­tog­ra­phers now!» dur­ing the Nuit des Musées, Rolex Learn­ing Cen­ter at EPFL Lau­sanne | nom­i­nated for the «Canon Profi­foto Förderpreis»

2011

Nom­i­nee  at the 5th inter­na­tional pho­tog­ra­phy mas­ters cup in Lon­don as «one of the best con­tem­po­rary pho­tog­ra­phers world­wide» in the cat­e­gorie peo­ple with «Life» | nom­i­nated as young tal­ent in the «por­traital­bum 02 » by seltmann+soehne | BFF Junior Member