About Klaus Mellenthin

Visual Concepts. Corporate. Portrait. Documentary.
I am a freelance photographer based in Berlin.

Mainly I photograph prominent members of the business community and current affairs personalities, CEOs, entrepreneurs, workers, models, politicians, musicians, celebrities, employees, actors – as well as urban landscapes.

When it comes to photographed or filmed advertising campaigns and reportage, I act as a visual storyteller both locally and globally.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): for several years I have been involved in social campaigning projects, such as the “St. Moses Children Care Center” in Uganda. For the NGO MISEREOR I travelled to Burkina Faso, the Lebanon, Brazil and Vietnam.
In 2022 I published my first book TRUE TALES Africa.

In 2020 I was appointed as a full member of the DGPh (German Society of Photographers).
From 2018-2020 I was a member of the board of the BFF (Independent Photographers and Film-Makers Association), of which I´m a member since 2010. From 2012-2019 I became a full member of the UK-based Association of Photographers (AOP).

Photography means to me much more than the mere documentation of reality and is, without doubt, more challenging than the fast and ephemeral world of Instagram. For me meeting different types of people and discovering unknown places has always been exciting. What thrills me is the great variety of options I experience in my job, be it in projects, personalities, attitudes and backgrounds.

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