Artistic Commercial Photographer
working with Agencies . Magazines . Companies . Artists
Hi, I'm Asja.
I create art with you through staged photoshoots.
The more experimental, the more fun. Magical lighting and atmosphere are what give the images their depth and pull.
Imagine walking away from our collaboration with mesmerizing, awe-inducing images you are proud to share.
This is human-made art: a real, co-creative process, guided by a visual concept and my experienced direction, while holding space for intuition, flow, and intentional imperfection.
I am a professional photographer with over ten years in advertising, corporate and editorial photography. I work with renowned agencies, fashion brands, magazines, and artists. It’s my dream job.
My studio is located in the heart of Hamburg-Sternschanze, Germany, though I work internationally across Europe and Latin America.
I lived in Argentina for three years, where I studied fashion and advertising photography with a focus on set design and continuous lighting. This period continues to shape my atmospheric approach to image-making.
You can book me for artistic advertising campaigns, captivating portraits, mood-driven imagery, poetic beauty shots, and experimental fashion stories.
Let’s combine my technical expertise, creative vision, and high standards with your ideas, to craft distinctive visual work together.

Foto: Santiago Salazar

Clients
GOOGLE INC., Deutsche Telekom, Johnson&Johnson, dm Drogerie Markt, Procter & Gamble Company, Tchibo, Lanserhof GmbH, Harisch Hotels, Konzerthaus Dortmund, SMP - Struktur Management Partner, Raffaello Rossi, zero, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, ECCO Sko A/S, ARTvergnügen GmbH, Dr. Schnell Chemie, BMW
ROWOHLT VERLAG, Gruner & Jahr, Hanser Verlag, 3Sat/ZDF, dtv Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, KiWi Verlag, Naxos Music Group, Quadriga Media Berlin GmbH, Argon Verlag
SCHOLZ&FRIENDS, DDB Germany, Leagas Delaney, Territory - Content to Results, Die Kameradinnen, Art+Com, Elevate Identity, Von Helden und Gestalten
SOPHIE PASSMANN (author/radio show host), Ina Müller (singer/TV host), Michel Abdollahi (conferencier/performance artist/journalist), Eugen Ruge (author), Florence Kasumba (actress), Stefanie Stahl (author/psychologist), Dr. Anne Fleck (author/medical doctor), Sandra Gerling (actress), Anthony Lazaro (musician), Jagoda Marinić (author/journalist)
Published
ELLE
L'Officiel China
Brigitte
DIE ZEIT
DB Mobil
STERN
GALA Greece
Süddeutsche Zeitung
FACES Magazin
NEON
dm alverde Magazin
Mega Magazine
Bunte
freundin
BARBARA Magazin
Lanserhof Magazin
taz
ProfiFoto
digit! Magazine
Photo Presse
Jute Magazine
Flanelle Magazine
Spiegel online
Brigitte Woman
Brigitte Leben!
IRK Magazine
Nasty Magazine
Catalogue Fashion Book
and many more
Exhibitions
"Kapriolen" - BFF Aufschlag #15
Hamburg, Juni 2024
"12 Seconds" - BFF Aufschlag #14
Hamburg, Sept 2023
"RUNWAY" - Haus der Wirtschaft
Stuttgart, Sept/Oct 2022
"Bewegung" - BFF Aufschlag #13
Hamburg, Aug 2022
"RUNWAY" - Frankfurt Fashion Week,
Jan/Feb 2022
"Future Perfect" - BFF Aufschlag #12,
Hamburg, June 2021
"FSK ab 18" - group exhibition. Galerie
Drewes, Hamburg, 2020
50 Jahre BFF. "Your signature - Das
bleibt." Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg,
2019
BFF Aufschlag #10. Hamburg, 04/2018
"Uncommissioned" - BFF Aufschlag. Hamburg, 05/2017
"Immersion&Illusion" – first solo show.
Bonn, 02/2017
"Reduction" - BFF Triebwerk. Berlin,
10/2016
"Volcano" – group exhibition. Fotodesign
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12/2015
Press
I have been featured in the press eight times so far. Click on the image to have a closer look & listen (German only):
Radio Interview
February 2025
The German radio station ByteFM interviewed me LIVE (!!) for one hour about my career. I was also allowed to bring my favorite music. We talked about the book that changed my life and where my courage to start new comes from. (German only)
Podcast Interview
October 2024
Listen to this interview with me if you want to get a boost in motivation to follow your dreams. And to maybe start to experiment with Lightpainting if you are a photographer :-)
You will also get to know me better. (German only)
ProfiFoto - Instax Art Series
November 2024
Publication in the German magazine ProfiFoto.
ProfiFoto had sent me a Fuji Polaroid Instax SQ40 camera. I was completely free in what I captured and they would publish it.
ProfiFoto
May 2022
A presentation of my portfolio on six pages with a short text about me in Germanys reknown photographic magazine ProfiFoto under the title of "Poesie und Euphorie". The cover photo is also by me.
Podcast-Interview
April 2022
If you want to know more about my path from well-paid senior project leader to professional full time photographer, my fears and if I regret it, listen to this 30-minute interview with me on the Podcast of "Montags gerne aufstehen"
(German only).
digit! Magazine
July / August 2020
On eight pages the author writes about my view on photography, my path of becoming a professional full time photographer, presents an excerpt from my portfolio and does an interview with me. (German only)
PhotoPresse PP04
April 2021
In the interview I get to talk about a favorite job of mine from the past, what I liked about it and how we did it.
H.E.I.
January 2018
If you want to know more about my path of becoming a professional full time photographer read this article published in 2018 on the Blog of Hamburger Existenzgründungs Initiative (German only).

Foto: Santiago Salazar
Some additional fun facts about me
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In my first life I worked for a Federal German enterprise in the field of International Cooperation as project leader. It was an awesome job! I just love photography so much more, so I quit it and started a new life.
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I have a master’s degree in Intercultural Communication, Adult Education and Psychology. (Sometimes I dream about still writing my doctor's thesis...)
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Currently I speak six languages, having lived and worked in many different countries. Não tá tão mal, né?
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Depending on the job, my sailing & motor boat license, or downhill skiing and horse-riding skills may come in handy. Yet waiting for that type of assignment though…
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I am seeking play, adventure, deep honest human connection, beauty, inspiration and growth.
What drives me is to make great art with talented people.
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Besides photography, I am passionate about many things:
the Tim Ferriss podcast, personality development, nonviolent communication (just completed my 1-year training in NVC), entrepreneurship, the series New Girl, literature, South America (Argentina & Brazil especially!), investing, New York City, or rabbits...
We will have lots of topics to bond over. Just give it a try ☺
![]() Konzerthaus Dortmund 25/26 campaign motif | ![]() my pictures and little moving images all over the city of Dortmund for the concert hall campaign 25/26 | ![]() very proud with the dm alverde Magazine Cover, June 2024 edition |
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![]() the dm alverde Magazine is travelling with me trough London (June 2024) | ![]() Lightpainting Lovers united in Montreal, Canada | ![]() Auf der BFF Vernissage in Hamburg 2023, die drei Kreateurinnen von "The Art Of Transformation" (Foto: Gulliver Theis) |
![]() Das New York City Team im Fahrstuhl (2023) ♥ | ![]() behind-the-scenes beim Shooting mit Ina Müller für die GEO Saison | ![]() super stolz ❤️ (Foto: M. Nachtsheim) |
![]() auch super stolz und glücklich ❤️ Interview mit mir in der ProfiFoto inkl. Titelbild (Foto: Andrea S.M.) | ![]() Ein paar Impressionen von der wirklich einzigartigen Woche in Kitzbühel im Februar 2022, wo ich für die Harisch Hotels Group fotografiert habe. Danke an Andreas & Andreas ❤️ | ![]() |
![]() Sonnbühel, mit meinem Assistenten David Fischer | ![]() Portraitierung von Dr. Christian Harisch | ![]() Harisch Bar |
![]() wann liege ich eigentlich mal nicht auf dem Boden? | ![]() | ![]() Für den BFF saß ich auf der Photopia 2021 dem Podium in einer Diskussion zum Thema Sichtbarkeit/ Eigenmarketing |
![]() Highlight der Photopia: Mein Idol Kristian Schuller persönlich treffen und ihn fast eine ganze Stunde lang ausquetschen wie er das macht mit Kunst und Kommerz | ![]() RUNWAY Ausstellung in Frankfurt 2022; eines meiner vier Bilder | ![]() glücklich nach dem Glitzer Shooting mit der Gang |
![]() | ![]() Workshop auf Zingst für den Neuen BFF Förderpreis mit meiner Mentee Barbara Haas, die ich im Rahmen der Förderung vier Monate als Mentorin begleiten durfte. | ![]() Für den Rowohlt Verlag habe ich 50 ihrer Mitarbeiter portraitiert. Dort arbeiten die allernettesten Menschen. In meinem nächsten Leben werde ich Lektorin. |
![]() Das Team beim Dr. Anne Fleck Shooting für die Brigitte Leben | ![]() Mit Dr. Anne Fleck | ![]() Für den Lanserhof auf Sylt. Oktober 2020 |
![]() Hinter den Kulissen beim Shooting für Raffaello Rossi. Juni 2020 | ![]() Behind the scenes beim Shooting mit Stefanie Stahl | ![]() my dream shooting for Lanserhof (Tegernsee) |
![]() isn't it beautiful at Lanserhof Tegernsee? | ![]() Hunting all lights and shadows at Lanserhof Tegernsee (photo: Oliver Viaña) | ![]() mit Model Victoria Summer und Stylistin Schmizzi beim wundervollen Lanserhof Shooting |
![]() Lanserhof Tegernsee | ![]() Meine neuen Visitenkarten sind da! Die Rückseite ist immer gleich aber auf der Vorderseite sind 26 verschiedene Bilder zu sehen. So dienen sie mir auch als Mini Portfolio. | ![]() Stolz und glücklich mit dem Brigitte Beauty Editorial Ausgabe Nr. 28 - Dez 2019 |
![]() Die Gang beim Shooting mit Sophie Passmann | ![]() Die Crew beim Portraitieren des Erfinders Michael Lutter für das Barbara Magazin | ![]() 50 Jahre BFF |
![]() Interviewt werden weil ich den BFF Award Gold Junior gewonnen habe :-) | ![]() BFF Award Gold Junior gewonnen 2019 | ![]() Aus der Serie "I see you and I will be there for you" |
![]() last styling touch ups for "Life is tough my darling, but so are you" in London, 2017 (photo: Inna Kirioglo) | ![]() Shooting a beauty series for Atlas Magazine, 2017 (photo: Angela Ohde) | ![]() shooting "Moon Colours" with my analog Pentax 6x7 (photo: Marie Hölscher) |
![]() at the production of the Cover for a magazine by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit in Bonn, 2017 (photo: Santiago Salazar) | ![]() my job makes me happy :-) (photo: Katrin Schöning) | ![]() Business Shooting in the port of Hamburg, 2017 (photo: Katrin Schöning) |
![]() behind the scenes for "Urban Leisure", 2017 (photo: Cecilia Aretz) | ![]() shooting "Utopia16", 2016 at Fotofabrique in Hamburg (photo: Daniela Pulina) | ![]() shooting Federico Rosales for Universe Management, Buenos Aires, 2016 |
![]() Building the set for the series "surrealista", Buenos Aires, 2015 | ![]() shooting Bonner Jazzchor for their new CD, 2016 (photo: Ana Franco) | ![]() with the band "16 Tage" after a successfull photoshoot, Bonn 2016 (photo: Ana Franco) |
![]() Opening speech at my first solo exhibition in Bonn, February 2017 (photo: Thomas Ollendorf) | ![]() With friends in Epecuén, Argentina, 2015 | ![]() with my long time muse, Fernando, in Brazil 2013 (photo: Aline) |
![]() Last but not least: Frohe Weihnachten, everyone! |



































































