Make Believe
Restaurant Moyo – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann
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Some assignments are simply irresistibly fascinating. Moyo, one of the more interesting restaurant chain with an ethnic South African touch hired me to photograph, one of their new restaurants in Cape Town. “Photograph the restaurant [...]
Corporate Photography – Architecture
Corporate photography involves often not only people, but also architecture. Sometimes I am invited to photograph buildings only as in the case for this car dealership. Buildings are different to people in the sense that they are normally much bigger and have a tendency to sit still. I can’t move the object, but have to [...]
Learning Photography
How do you learn photography? Where do you get inspiration? Where can you learn new techniques?
I love reading and have been learning a lot about photography through reading books. The local library in my hometown had a good collection of high quality photography books. That was a starting point.
The more you practice, the better your [...]
Regus Portraits
The manager of the Regus Center in the southern suburbs of Cape Town asked me for a portrait session on location. She needed the images for a nationwide publication in South Africa. The deadline was within a few days of the call from her.
On the day of the shoot, I worked with remote triggered speedlights [...]
Networking and your public image
Forbes.com recently published an article called: Yes, CEOs Should Facebook And Twitter. Matthew Fraser and Soumittra Dutta say: “Social networking has clearly reached a tipping point. Sites like MySpace and Facebook boast hundreds of millions of members.
Headshot Portfolio
This is updated version of my online portfolio for portraits and headshots. Move your mouse over the portfolio and select fullscreen view to enlarge the images. Enjoy.
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BMW Financial Services
BMW Financial Services asked me to take portraits of the staff in Cape Town. This was a standard corporate portrait session, including a neutral background for the individual portraits. As I was working on location, I had to setup a ministudio in one of the conference rooms, including a grey backdrop, I brought with.
Looking for [...]
Headshots for Louise van Rhyn
I have been busy with portraits and headshots lately. This session was with Louise van Rhyn from Symphonia. Louise hired me last year to photograph the series of events with Ben and Roz Zander during their tour in Cape Town. Louise decided that she wanted to work with a makeup artist on the day of [...]
Photographing Hearing Aids
I met Christoph a couple of weeks ago at a networking event. He is the coowner of two shops offering hearing aid solutions in South Africa. The company Hearsense does not only sell hearing aids, but also employs audiologists (hearing specialists), who can diagnose the need for a hearing aid.
The brief required images for a [...]
Lifestyle Photography for diary system
This assignment required on location photography in a local restaurant in the Cape Town area. My client needed to display her product in an environment, which displayed its daily application. It is a diary system targeted at busy mothers and women. The images needed to display a vibrant and fresh feel.
Once the product is available, [...]
Architecture Photography in the Evening
A few weeks ago, I photographed the Northgate branch of the Bedking in Cape Town. My client required a photo of the building in the evening, while the inside of the store is fully illuminated. When I scouted the building before the shoot, I noticed that there are hardly any outside lights and that I [...]
Portraits and Profile of Accounting Firm
In collaboration with a marketing company, I photographed offices and staff members of the accounting firm Moore Stephens across South Africa. I selelected the images of the Stellenbosch office example for this assignment. The headshots of the partners were photographed outdoors on a staircase with the available natural light. All other corporate images involved off [...]
Anglo American
Anglo American hired me recently to photograph their presence at the Mining Indaba 2009 at the CTICC (Cape Town Intenational Convention Center). They wanted to document their stand at the exhibition as well as images of the speech by the CEO of Anglo American South Africa. For a lot of the images, I used [...]
