Originated in Photography, Marten offers beauty-, transportation- and editorial photography. Over the years he developed digital retouch and composing as a steady element in his works. Due to his knowledge about CGI and 3D he is in charge of TheLooopCGI since it was founded in 2007. Since Marten moved to Shanghai in 2003 he is also working as an Executive Producer for foreign Photo Productions that are being shot in China.

Nationality
German.
Language: German, English and a bit of Mandarin

Education
Marten worked as a freelance assistant for different photographers all over the world in miscellaneous fields of photography like fashion, beauty, architecture, car, landscape, still live and lifestyle.
Working Experience
During his first job as a paramedic Marten learned about life and dead as well as the boundaries of the human body. A lot of these experiences influenced his first years of working as a photographer. Marten’s basic fields of interests were people and fashion photography. His first freelance working years Marten spent in Hamburg and Berlin (Germany) and later also in Milano (Italy). His basic working field became the fashion magazines in Europe.
2003 Marten moved to Shanghai to generate a new exploration field for his life. Here he mainly focused on car advertising and the development of The Looop Shanghai's Rep department and CGI department. Beside this Marten still loves shooting people for Beauty-products focusing on model close-up’s for mainly cosmetic clients.

Magazine’s:
Marie Claire
ELLE
Vogue
FHM
Maxim
MAX
Freundin
Allegra
Metropolis
HOW
MINI International

Advertising Agency’s:
Ogilvy & Mather
FCB Wilkens
J.W. Thomson
Leo Burnett
Smart
Shanghai VW
DDB Shanghai

Awards and Exhibitions
2000 Exhibiton in Hamburg “Clean”
2000 Artist grant to live in a public-sponsored artist house in Hamburg
2001 Fuji- “Youngstars”-Award winner
2001 Exhibition “Muppethouses” in Medienbunker, Hamburg
2002 Invitation to live in the artist Village “Schöppingen”. Chosen out of 600 appliers.
2003 Exhibition “Fashion Photography” in Shanghai (The Room with a view)
2004 Solo Exhibition at the “German Week” at Shanghai Times Square
2005 Exhibition on the “Chinese Photokina” in Shanghai
2006 Exhibition for BMW Z4 Indonesia