Michael lange photographer

How did you get into photography originally?

Well, I’m a self taught photographer. I first saw photography when I was seventeen and when I was eighteen I decided to become a photographer and I said “OK, a career as a photographer takes 8-10 years, are you willing to go for that?” and I said yes.

So it took me 10 years to get into Stern and Die Zeit magazine.

This is photo-journalism?

Yes, I was into journalistic photography for twenty five to thirty years so I mainly did Stern, Geo, Art magazine - portraits, features, technology, etc.

Like stories about how Steinway pianos are made from a piece of wood to a royal festival hall. So you work on a project like that for four weeks but also covering news events like earthquakes. Stern and Geo were my main clients though.

And after a while the money in that sort of work went down but it changed significantly in the mid 1990s and then from 2000 onwards I was mainly photographing annual reports.

Was this portraiture?

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