Klaus Kampert

I was born in 1953 in Duesseldorf, Germany where I still live and work today.
As a child I had spent a lot of time drawing and later on painting and sculpturing.
But when I was about 19 years old, I made my first more playful steps into photography –with remarkable results after a while.
As a photographer I am self-taught. In the early 8o ́s I established my own studio
working as a free-lance photographer for the advertising business – mainly fashion andbeauty productions at home and abroard.
But also from the beginning and increasingly I did my personal projects which became more and more important to me and today are my main field of work.
I am mostly dealing with the human body, with the triad of body-mind-emotion in particular. For me, the body is the shell of the soul, shelter on the one hand and `story-teller´on the other. It is this that I try to explore, as it lets me get close to the human being as a whole.

Moreover I have a weak point for picturing three dimensional statue-like bodies in whole orpart in dramatic lighting and posing.

Many of my images, especially nudes and ballet-dancers have been printed in internationalpublications and are much sought after among collectors.