STEFAN FALKE Photography New York City I am a New York City based photographer creating visual stories and distinctive portraits for publications and brands, as well as photographic art for public and commercial spaces. (see my recent Macy's Nationwide Photography Commission) I was born in Paderborn, Germany. After abandoning my civil engineer studies in Aachen and Essen I assisted several photographers in Munich and later worked as a silk screen printer in Hamburg. My professional photography career started when German film director Hermine Huntgeburth asked me to shoot stills for one of her movies. After that successful assignment I got continuous work as a set photographer for productions filmed in France, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Morocco, Denmark, Finland, Kenya, South Africa, Spain, Romania and Jordan; among the highlights were Hermine Huntgeburth's 'The White Massai', Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle's 'Ludwig II' and Gavin Millar's 'Albert Schweitzer'. Those amazing years working on film sets were the foundation for my future as a professional photographer. During that time I also started photographing books for German sculptor Luise Kimme at her studio in the Caribbean island of Tobago; her art and art practice had a huge influence on me. She would later introduce me to world renown costume designer and Carnival master 'mas' man Peter Minshall in Trinidad; that connection led to my first long term photography project titled "Moko Jumbies: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad". The photos were chosen to be exhibited at the "Visa Pour L'Image" photo festival and the book - my first - was published by Pointed Leaf Press in New York in 2004. My interest soon shifted to the US - Mexico Border where over time I photographed more than 200 artists on both sides of the 2000 miles long divide in order to shine a spotlight on the vibrant cultural activities of that bi-national region. The book about that project, "LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US Mexican Border", was published in Germany in 2014 but I continued to visit and photograph along the border until the Pandemic in 2020 when I started a very different body of work about the - almost - empty streets of New York - which resulted in the self published and award winning book "Keep Going New York !!". For my latest personal project Reflecting New York I photographed places in my chosen hometown with the help of a hand-held mirror. The - also award winning - series was shown in an outdoor exhibition in Hudson Yards, hosted by New York's premier photo festival Photoville. My photos are distributed by the German photo agency "laif / agentur fuer photos und reportagen" (laif is represented by Redux in the US). US agent: Frank Meo My wife Christine and I live happily in New York City !! I am fluent in English and German.