All our photo scenes are photographed with digital Hasselblad cameras. By combining several partial shots of the characters, large-format composings can be created, with an size of up to 1 Gigapixel.. or even more. Our minimum standard size for a composing is 129.6 x 181.8 cm, based on {A4 + 3mm margin bleed on all sides} x 6 in both directions (somewhat larger than double A-0). This way, the composings can either be used for A4 size printed books (or A3, or something inbetween, with the same proportions) and for extremely large-format exhibition prints.
Our book The Ultimate Dracula is available in bookshops or through Amazon:
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For six other books, the post-production work for all depicted characters and background has been completed, so that we only have to do the book lay-out:
Best of Poe: An illustrated anthology, consisting of all major tales plus some key poems (20 plates).
Grimm’s Fairy Tales: A selection of the 55 best-known and most vivid narratives, each illustrated by one or more photo scenes.
Carmilla - a photo story with young & promising models, based on the elegant horror novel Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872).
Swan Lake Rhymed - a photo story based on the classical Swan Lake ballet (1897) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, which has been reworded in a series of 14 sonnets.
Carmilla, based on the elegant horror novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) about a vampire girl.
Love al dente: A parody of the Twilight teeny romance, realised with youths between 12 and 20 years of age.
Second Skin: A series created with Trisha, a specialist for very tight suits...
For four further projects, the image post-production has almost been completed:
Bocaccio’s Decameron: A selection of 20 stories, focusing on the the theme of love, romance and marital infidelity. The original book was written around 1350, but the narratives are still very fresh and amusing.
Medieval Fabliaux: Selection of stories recited by troubadours in Southern England and the North of France by the end of the 13th Century, equally focusing on the trials and tribulations of love.
Till Eulenspiegel (Master Till Owlglass), about the popular hero and practical joker who lived in Northern Germany in the 14th century.
Baron von Münchhausen, illustrating the incredible adventures of the Lying Baron.
Further projects already photographed:
Dante’s Inferno: A selection of 20 scenes, depicting the sinners in the eight Rings of Hell. To be published along with the relevant lines from Dante's verse translated into modern English and explaining background texts.
Alice in Wonderland: An action-laden girlie-power version of Lewis Carrol’s famous book, with 20 plates.
Pinocchia: A modern version of the popular Pinocchio tale, starring a wooden puppet who by accident is turned into a real girl.
Beauty and the Beast: A project realised with young perfomers age group 17-20, to create an alternative view of the well-known Fairy Tale.
Mandi, die Mutige Marienkäferin: Story about a courageous ladybird girl, who lives in a Berlin hippie commune and makes a career as model and groupie (Parody of the myths around German hippie icon Uschi Obermeier).
Seven sins, seven virtues: A series of 14 images as a parody on the Christian definitions of Good and Evil, with some theological background information.
Goddesses: A series of 20 images depicting a number of impressive pagean deities.
Jean of Arc, about the ordeals of the holy French war heroine.
Long time exposures, with surreal scenes photographed in almost complete darkness.
Roos vs. Rops: A series of wild scenes inspired by the Belgian artist Félicien Rops (1833-1898).
Affliction Dolls: A chaotic party with four dressed-up "living dolls".
Stand-alone monumental scenes (ca. 250 x 400 cm):
Ring der Nibelungen: A panorama scene showing the key characters from the famous Nibelungen verse: Siegfried, Hagen, Gunther, Kriemhild, Brünhild, the Dragon, the dwarf Alberich and the three amazing Rhine Daughters.
Midsummer Night's Dream: Very large scene showing the key characters from Shakespeare's play Midsummer Night's Dream: Helena, Hermia, Oberon, Titania, Puck and Nick Bottom as the Donkey.
Temptation of Saint Anthony: Very large scene showing Saint Anthony being tempted by female demons.