Joerg Mueller
Hamburg, Deutschland
Telling photographic stories about people in special life situations and visualizing complex situations are my strengths. I am primarily commissioned for corporate photography, especially for the scientific sector, including portraits. In this context, in addition to the craft of lighting, personal exchange and experience are of particular importance.
Trained through my photojournalistic projects, I also act with particular caution in sensitive corporate areas. I do research on-site. For instance, I was honored with the Hansel-Mieth Prize for my reportage on Chinese textile workers producing fashion in Italy so it can be sold under the "Made in Italy" label.
Born and raised in Cologne, I studied visual communication and photo design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences. After receiving my diploma, I began my career as a freelance photographer in Hamburg in 1991, where I have been living ever since. My initial assignments included Greenpeace and the magazine SPORTS, followed by commissioned works for print publications like DER SPIEGEL, stern, Geo, National Geographic, Mare, Brigitte, Hörzu, and others.
In 2018, I launched my media-effective exhibition project "5x Germany around the World". In close cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, supported by the Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Homeland (BMI), the photo project tours Europe as a traveling exhibition. It is complemented by panel discussions, teaching materials, video interviews, audios, an exhibition app, and an interactive exhibition in the WBS LearnSpace 3D for school classes. I design tours and workshops for the exhibitions with the aim of breaking common thought patterns and bringing about sustainable changes in society and the environment.
2007 - Hansel-Mieth-Award
- Advertising
- Audio capture
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Events
- Interview
- Medical
- Portrait
- Reporting
