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"My work is made of and inspired by childish things. Tutus and tea parties. Porcelain dolls and Disney movies. The love of learning and exploring that we as adults lose along the way. Walking through a forest barefoot. Talking to yourself in a silly voice. Building forts during a thunderstorm. Battling dragons and monsters in your mind. Coming home, safe and sound, and turning your adventures into art." 

*1984 in Swakopmund, Namibia

Albrecht von Alvensleben’s works are moving at the intersection between design, photography and architecture. As a student of Zaha Hadid and Greg Lynn, he could develop his interest for architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 2009 to 2010 Albrecht von Alvensleben studied at New York City’s Cooper Union School of Architecture with a full tuition scholarship. The imprint for applied arts, which was mediated at university, can be found throughout the works of Alvensleben – the focus on design, interior fitting and architecture give prove of that. At the Moment Albrecht von Alvensleben works and lives in New York.

*1979 in Munich, Germany

Max von Treu was born in Munich in 1979. After his graduation at the International School of Munich he studied film, photography and media science at the University of Westminster in London. Once he earned his degree (B.A.) there followed works behind the photo- and the film camera, exhibitions of his own, and assistances for several photographers. Max von Treu lives and works as a freelance photographer in Munich since the end of 2005.

As a youth in North Carolina Neil Craver begun his path as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor. His motivation grew from his interest of psychophysical effects of chroma. Photography holds all the intrinsic values of all the other arts but differers in the fact the it’s the foundation of existence. His creations are the exploration of his inner facilities in the pursuit of contemporary knowledge expressing “original thoughts”.

“Nothing can exist without the photon, and every aspect is controlled by it’s usage”

*1982 in Saskatoon, Canada

Chad Coombs was born in 1982 in Saskatoon, Canada. His early theoretical and especially practical occupation with paintings was affected by former attempts to reeducate his left-handedness and not entirely corrected defective vision. The camera gave the young man the possibility to accept his disability and to transform it positively. Due to the medium photography he could overcome the restrictions, which he experienced in painting. Like Richard Avedon, Chad Coombs wants to disturb and arouse the viewer, to make him feel and think. In many cases he focuses on issues and problems of the globalized world. Sometimes very subtle like in the series Future Wildlife Portrait, sometimes very radical like in the series Photoganda. Chad Coombs works were published by national and international magazines. In 2008 Chad Coombs followed an invitation of the David LaChapelle Studios to New York and worked two weeks with the team of his favourite photographer.

*1978 in Munich, Germany

Right from the beginning, the focus of Benjamin A. Monn’s photographic work concentrates on the occupation with architectural photography. Monn knowingly defies the genre’s established aim - namely the documentation and identification of buildings – and works on a new definition of architectural photography.   

Since 2002 he is generating several groups of work parallel to each other. 

*1979 in Munich, Germany