© Gunnar Knechtel

Contact

gunnar knechtel   

mobile phone: 0034  646868361   ( new )

gknechtel@telefonica.net

link to my archive, travel, portrait and general interest at Laif agency:

www.laif.de/de/article/10610.html


Biography   

24.09.1970   born in Kelkheim, Germany
1991-94        Berlin
1994-96        Hamburg
1996-2001    London
since 2001   Barcelona  



Education

1991-93 studied photography in “Lette-Verein”, Berlin
            
 

 
Editorial clients

Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin,Stern Magazin, Next Level, Dazed and Confused, Internazionale, Greenpeace Magazin,The Observer Magazine, Colors Magazine, La Van Guardian Magazine,Das Magazin, Evoophat, Du Magazin, Guardian Weekend, El Pais Semanal , Ling Magazin, Merian,
Ojo de Pez, ON Barcelona, C Photo Internacional, Case da Abitare, La Donna, Base, Clase, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona
             
Advertisment clients
Philips, Singapore, Thailand, China and Hamburg
Global Weighing, China and Hong Kong
s,c,p,f... Pikolin, Spain
Camberwell college catalogue 2001-2002, London
AC-Hotels, Spain
Alphabet, Fashion Accessories, Spain
Publicis, renault, Spain
s.c.p.f., Festival Grec, Spain
Libro Banco Santander 2006, Spain            
Celsa, Steal Company, 2007, Spain

Nokia, 2009

Institut de Cultura, Barcelona,2009, Spain

 


Awards
             

 1999 winner of the Observer Hodge award, UK
 2005 short listed FotoNoviembre,Tenerife, Spain


               
       

Projects/ Stories

     
1998      reportage about musician and artist
              PaulCannell, Redruth, Cornwall

1998      reportage ,China.1999 winner of the Observer Hodge award, UK

1999      Prora, Germany

1999      Las Vegas

2001     Finnland

2002      Benidorm

2003      Brasilia

2003      “Chabolas de Madrid”             

2004      Beirut
        
2005      Sao Paulo

2006      Chandigarh

2006      Benidorm 2

2008      Women in Rio

2008      Manga       

2009      Living in Caves, Tenerife



Exhibitions

2003 Group show Overbeck - Gesellschaft Luebeck, Germany, with "landscapes of Benidorm".
2005 group show and short listed FotoNoviembre 2005,Tenerife, Spain.
2006 single show ¨chabolas¨, Galeria Spectrum Soto, Zaragoza, Spain
2006 represented by Galeria Spectrum Soto at Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
Since 2004 participant at the group shows of Klubfoto, Germany