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Welcome to our website for commercial photography and photo workshops in & around Berlin!
We are a team of professional photographers and creatives with an international experience spanning more than 20 years. Storytelling is our passion.
Berlin Photographer was founded by German-Spanish photographer and photojournalist Katherin Wermke who has also been successfully managing the Barcelona Photographer agency in Barcelona since 2005.
Berlin Photographer is offering you the chance to do an intensive photography course in two days: a weekend for beginners and advanced amateurs who have the will to learn, interested in enhancing their skills and learn every trick of the trade.
DURATION: A WEEKEND
CONTENTS TECHNICAL
PRACTICAL
PRICE: EUR 149.
Any photographer, regardless of his skill level (amateur, advanced amateur, junior professional, senior professional), needs to share his/her concerns and experience with another one in order to expand horizons and get ready for the next step with all the right tools. Our photography coaching, conducted in personalised individual sessions, serves exactly for that; with an emphasis on the way to work in the studio and on lighting both in studio and on location.
DURATION: 4 & 8 HOURS PACKS AVAILABLE, WITH CUSTOM-MADE CONTENT.
CONTENTS TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL
We cover the following themes. You can choose any that you want and are not exclusive:
Custom-made contents on demand.
The course is created and directed by professional photographer and founder of Berlin Photographer Katherin Wermke. Katherin teaches photography courses at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya (IEFC, Catalunya’s Institute for Photography Studies) and a Master program at the university ELISAVA, Barcelona, Spain. If you want to know more about her professional career, please visit: www.katherinwermke.com
Katherin Wermke (Cologne, 1977) is a renowned photographer living between Berlin and Barcelona who works internationally. She started her professional career in Visual Arts by working in TV production (in Cologne and Mexico).
Founder of the company Barcelona Photographer, her areas of specialization are commercial, corporate and portrait photography. She was instructed at the IEFC, and obtained a degree in advertising photography. She completed her studies in fashion photography at the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Her main workplaces are Barcelona, Berlin and New York. She has been working for national and international clients such as: Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, Airplan, Amouage Oman, Barrisol, BASF, Bayer Healthcare, Bolsaplast, Cemafon, Clínica Quirón, Cocunat, Deutsche Bank, Dolby Laboratories, Dubai Business Events, European Cancer Organization, Generalitat de Catalunya, Grisby Menswear, La Pedrera, Lenovo, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week NYC, Nestlé, Photon Magazine, School of Visual Arts New York, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Wall Street Journal Europe and Woman Figaro Magazine.
Among her academic activities, she teaches portrait workshops and the specialization course in photography production at IEFC; at ELISAVA, the advanced lighting module of the Master in Photography and Design; and at Barcelona Photographer, intensive workshops for beginners and lighting for portrait and fashion.
At the same time she is developing an artistic career in travel and street photography, specifically around poverty and women rights that has its natural extension into her work for the NGO Street Heroes of India, www.street-heroes.org, based around an art therapy project that focuses on portraits of kids and teenagers that are excluded from society. On the other hand, in 2013 she was invited to the International Media Forum of Young Journalist Leaders of Russia, CIS, the EU and Asia in the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg (Russia) where she presented her documentary work realized in India, Dubai, Barcelona and New York. .
She is an active member of the AFP (Asociación de Fotógrafos Profesionales de España – Spanish Photographers’ Association) and of the ONG Shoot4Change, and is increasingly working in the field of direction of photography for film and video.
