Carry Your Sun With You
There are moments, where you find yourself in the right place at the right time with the right light as with the image above. This shot is part of an corporate assignment for a dried fruit farm and producer. When I took this photograph, I was actually looking for a large group of guinea fowls [...]
Make Believe
Restaurant Moyo – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann Depending on your connection, it might take a few seconds for the slideshow to load. 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 [...]
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 [...]
Events Photography for Insurance Awards
This South American subsidary of the Spanish insurance company Mapfre organized an awards evening at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town. It was one of those events, where the organizers decided in the last moment to confirm the booking with me, which makes things a bit more complicated for me. I didn’t have time [...]
Technology Company Portaits
This assignment goes a couple of months back. Psitek is a South African telecommunications company focusing on the underserviced market and develops their products with focus on the developing world. The company needed to update their website with some fresh portraits of the staff. The goal was not to photograph staged images, but rather “natural” [...]
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. [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml documentid=090425140643-8501d8ea0b7943f2b0ce7a48fea32f58 docname=headshot_portfolio username=jhansmann loadinginfotext=Headshot%20Portfolio%202009 showhtmllink=true tag=south%20africa width=600 height=574 unit=px]
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 [...]
Marketing Campaign
A few weeks ago, a marketing company hired me to take portraits on location for a campaign. This required taking dozens of portraits in a relatively short time span in mostly noisy environments, also called night clubs. This brought some interesting challenges with it. Night clubs tend to be darkish and crowded. Luckily the marketing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 either [...]
