Volker Hinz

At the beginning of his career in the 1970s, Volker Hinz formed his reputation with reports from the German political scene. Later, on behalf of the magazine, he took the opportunity for gripping stories and photographic documentations such as on New York nightlife, on Hollywood, on Mexican Oil, on Argentina and Palm Beach for which he received awards at World Press, Art Directors Club Germany and Lead Award.

• In Love With Photography, by Volker Hinz and Peter-Matthias Gaede (text), Ed. Lammerhuber, Vienna 2015, 424 pages, 371 photos, 1000 signed and numbered copies, • AREA, ed by Jennifer and Eric Goode, New York: Ed. Abrams 2013, • Stern Fotografie, Volker Hinz, 67. new edition, Hamburg 2012, Gruner + Jahr, 96 pages in 67 parts, • Private life of Muhammad Ali Photography by Volker Hinz; A publication by Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie accompanying the Exhibition, Limited ed., 1. ed., Hamburg 2002, Germany: Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie, 63 pages, • Jagmandir: Traum als Wirklichkeit; Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharana, von Udaipur und André Heller, Essay by Jürgen Kesting, Photographs by Volker Hinz and Gabriela Brandenstein, Wien: Brandstätter 1991, 160 pages, • Area: photographs, Volker Hinz; Karl Steinorth; Thomas Buchsteiner, Schaffhausen 1990: Ed. Stemmle, 134 pages,

Stern Magazine: "For thirty years, Hinz worked for Stern – almost eight years away, based in New York. Over three decades he illustrated countless reports. Muhammad Ali, Woody Allen, Helmut Schmidt, to name just some of the many world famous personalities, which he accompanied with the photo camera. Legendary his photo of Pele and Franz Beckenbauer... Hinz' photographs shaped the appearance of the magazine. The focus of his work was always the human as a motif and humanity as a visual language." (By David Scherf) Volker Hinz Exhibition 2008 Stern Magazine: "The photographer Volker Hinz is... a contemporary painter. The contemporary painter among the great photographers, to be exact. For decades, the photographer Volker Hinz portrays the star, the famous and the powerful of this world. Now he puts himself once in the center (by: Ulrike Posche) congratulates to his 60th Birthday." Stern Magazine: "For nearly three decades, the photographer Volker Hinz works for Stern. His reports from around the world, his pictorial stories and especially his black and white portraits of international personalities establish his superior rank as a photographer and have strongly influenced the look of the magazine. Stern – photographer Volker Hinz presented in a photo exhibition for the first time a selection of his works, including portraits of famous personalities". Artist Talk between Volker Hinz and Ulrich Rueter, Gruner + Jahr Publishing House: "For almost forty years, Volker Hinz has decisively influenced the visual appearance of Stern magazine. Hardly a book without his sovereign portraits of celebrities from around the world. Now the publisher Gruner + Jahr honors him with an exhibition and with the latest volume in the series Stern Fotografie portfolio." To make experiences from photographs is the art and the craft of Volker Hinz." What distinguishes him are 'kid gloves and eagle eyes'." (Jochen Siemens) "Volker Hinz is one of the most prolific portrait photographers in the German press and his special ability is to add new aspects beyond the known add clichés, in particular to the portraits of famous – and sometimes infamous – contemporaries in the fields of politics, film, literature, sports and fashion. The bare soccer players Pele and Beckenbauer in the shower or Woody Allen, who forbids himself the mouth, Kate Moss with golden feet: there are not only pictures, but stories told by the camera of Volker Hinz"

• World Press Photo Award, 1973, Volker Hinz, 2nd prize, Portraits • World Press Photo Award, 1975, Volker Hinz, 2nd prize, People in the News • World Press Photo Award, 1976, Volker Hinz, 3rd prize, News Features • ADC Photo Award, • ADC Photo Award • Lead Award