" The cool thing to realize about this project is that you’re not only working for yourself and your country but for people from all over the world…I’m so excited about everyone’s creative energy coming together".
Born in 1971, Thomas Wolfzettel belongs to a generation of young photographers and now resides In Giessen-Germany. Last year Wolfzettel founded the platform www.neuepropaganda.de [New Propaganda] with three other colleagues [Bianca Gutberlet, Patrick Strattner, and Ivonne Thein]. It’s a website depicting his work, a somewhat ‘portfolio’. Leafing through his pictures, it seems documenting urban culture and street photography is his forte: “I work at the interface of fashion photography, club culture and everyday life in the city centres”, he explains. He relies on the ‘straight-up’ approach, a genre which was conceived in the sixties but later blossomed in the eighties- featuring people as they are in the metropolis rather than using supermodels with a pristine backdrop. It utilised portraiture and social documentation, particularly fashion.
After studying design Photography, Art and German Studies [in Dortmund and Giessens] he completed projects with Thomas Kellener and dealt with commissions in advertising photography. From 2003-2005 Wolfzettel worked as an assistant for several photographers in Berlin and in Frankfurt. At present, Wolfzettel is uber busy with different projects- he’s in the midst of completing editorial works for magazines.For now, though, Wolfzettel lives and searches for any creative energy: “In the end, I hope to push the limits of contemporary fashion photography so that it can be placed in a wider social context”.
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