Animal Portrait Photography

Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...

For years, Jahiel has been photographing the cowboys of the Great Basin–perhaps one of the most inhospitable regions of the already rugged West. These people represent one of the l...

Edition of 7 More sizes on request Portrait of the Cheetah Imani and one of her cubs. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among th...

'Great Horned Owl #3, Espanola, NM, 2011' is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Brad Wilson from the ‘Affinity’ series which features studio portraits of wild animal...

"Untitled 44" In this award-winning image, a young Suri boy carries a goat. It's a familiar scene in the Omo Valley and his tribe relies on livestock so he must take part in the car...

Edition of 7 More sizes on request Portrait of a female Lion in Kenya. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the most sought-a...

Edition of 12 more sizes on request A Cheetah mum is sitting in the savannah. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the most s...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Golden Tabby Tiger' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photog...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Courtship' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Ti...

Edition of 12 More sizes on request Portrait of the 5 Boys called "Tano Bora". This coalition of five male cheetahs has been named the Tano Bora coalition, meaning ‘The Magnificent...

Time stands still (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 50x50cm, Edition of 2/10. Archival C-Print, mounted under matte Plexi, based on a Polaroid. Signed on verso with C...

Edition of 5 Available in different sizes This iconic elephant Primo, was with his 50 years one of the last remaining big boys in Africa with huge tusks. After several days followi...

Edition of 12 more sizes on request A big majestic male lion lying proud in the savannah. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are amon...

"Rhinoceros" is a signed photograph For millions of years, early humans evolved alongside all other wildlife in a completely analog world, sharing the same natural environments in v...

"Snowy Owl" is a signed photograph For millions of years, early humans evolved alongside all other wildlife in a completely analog world, sharing the same natural environments in ve...

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...

Heather and Zeuss (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013, 20x24cm, Edition 10/10, digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 13137.17. Not mounted, featuring Heather Megan Christie Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in 29 Palms, California, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. 

Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10 acre property is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her mid century home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer named Heather, and played by Heather Megan Christie, Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Never in the history of movie making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise the project 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004, when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and couldn't travel to the desert. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider will submit the film to the Slamdance film festival 2018 and it was broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. For more information visit Stefanie's 29 Palms, CA project. Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. "Cheetah Who Shops" is a stylish black-and-wh...

Dugong (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006, 57x70cm, Edition 3/5, analog C-Print, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, based on a Polaroid. Certific...

Visually gripping black and white vintage original photograph of Marilyn Monroe, posed in dramatic shadow surrounded by a fur stole. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print f...

Edition of 7 Signed on front or on an adhesive label This iconic Lion is called "Morani". He's one of the very famous "Musketeer" Coalition in the Masai Mara National Reserve. Joac...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Night Owl' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Ti...

'Time stands Still' (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 Edition 4/10, 20x20cm, Digital C-Print, Based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signature label, Not mounted, Artist inventory 20216.04. Permanent collection Bombay Beach Biennale. The 'Chicks and Chicks' series is part of my Desert Living Project, which encompasses all aspects of organic living including growing your own organic food, self sustainability and regarding the beauty and personality of farm animals and their welfare in an endeavor to connect human needs back to the sources of living. The full circle of Industrialization returns to the homestead. Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dream scapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction. Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen. “It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”) Exhibitions Selected (selected) 2017 BLICKFELD Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
 Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)

 2016 
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin 

(S) 2015
 Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky 
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) 

 2014

 Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G) 
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S) 
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
 2013 
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region,  Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog) 
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
 Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen 
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Charles and Ray Eames, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Oppenheim, Andy Warhol and others, (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt (Spring), Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)  
2012
 Stranger Than Paradise, Christian Hohmenn Fine Art, Palms Desert, (S)
 Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, (S)
 Bienale Art Auction 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (G), with Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell... MUSES, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 
Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G), (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G), (catalog), 
Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, May 2012
 Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G) with Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen, and others
 Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) 

2011 
Kunst zu verlosen !  // Art to raffle off !, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, (G) with Monica Bonvicini, Tim Eitel...

Edition 10 More sizes on request. Tim was the biggest elephant bull in Amboseli Ecosystem in Kenya. He was one of the last really big tuskers in Africa. His tusks were so long that ...

Antinoe - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2015 - Edition of 10 Asno Egypt during Coptic Revolutions In assignment for ARTE& LE LOUVRE 2012 This is an Archival P...

Edition of 15 More sizes on request Portrait of a beautiful and majestic male Lion. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the ...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Barney' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Tim F...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Kanja Shaking' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographe...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Monkey Eyes' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer ...

Edition of 12 More sizes on request Portrait of the male lion Orbanoti in Masai Mara, Kenya. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are a...

Edition of 5 Available in different sizes This iconic elephant Primo, was with his 50 years one of the last remaining big boys in Africa with huge tusks. After several days followi...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times between 15-20 days. Edition 1/10 All items are shipped as a print only and come unframed. Tim Flach is a grad...

Joachim Schmeisser "Tim - Guardian of Eden" Kenya 2019 Edition of 3 + 2 AP 4 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints Signed, titled and numbered Sheet size 76 x 112 cm / 30 x 44.1 inch T...

Joachim Schmeisser "Portrait of Primo" Kenya 2017 Edition of 3 + 2 AP 4 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints Signed, titled and numbered Sheet size 76 x 112 cm / 30 x 44.1 inch Total ...

Joachim Schmeisser "Bull with two Birds" Kenya 2017 Edition of 3 + 2 AP 6 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints Signed, titled and numbered Sheet size 76 x 56 cm / 30 x 22 inch Total i...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times between 15-20 days. Edition 2/10 All items are shipped as a print only and come unframed. Tim Flach is a grad...

Joachim Schmeisser "Tim - Eye to Eye" Kenya 2019 Edition of 3 + 2 AP 4 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints Signed, titled and numbered Sheet size 76 x 112 cm / 30 x 44.1 inch Total i...

Joachim Schmeisser "Tim - Preserver of Peace", Kenya 2019 Edition of 3 + 2 AP 4 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints Signed, titled and numbered Sheet size 56 x 76 cm / 22 x 30 inch T...

Limited Edition of 15 More sizes on request Two elephant babies hugging each other. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the ...

Edition of 12 More sizes on request Portrait of a spotting Cheetah and her cubs. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the mos...

Limited Edition of 5 More sizes on request This encounter happened in the very early dawn. The three lion cups were playing in the grass and looked at me very curious. Less than 16,...

Edition 10 More sizes on request A young elephant drinking at a waterhole. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the most sou...

Edition of 5 More sizes on request This iconic elephant Primo, was with his 50 years one of the last remaining big boys in Africa with huge tusks. After several days following him ...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Battus Polydamas I' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photog...

“ Antinoe” - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2015 - Edition of 5 Asno Egypt during Coptic Revolutions In assignment for ARTE& LE LOUVRE 2012 This is an Archival...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Doves, Vase' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer ...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Blue Star' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Ti...

Edition of 12 More sizes on request Portrait of a beautiful and majestic male Lion. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the ...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. 'Da Vinci Bat' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer...

Limited Edition of 10 More sizes on request A small egret is riding on an elephant through the plains. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photogr...

Dugong II (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence 2006, 31x39cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, based on a Polaroid. Certificat...

Vicki Stewart Tyrion Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal black...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times between 15-20 days. Edition 12/25 All items are shipped as a print only and come unframed. Tim Flach is a gra...

High Noon - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist Inventory #349. Sig...

Sükan created the ‘La Notte’ series as he was working for international magazines documenting the fashion shows and backstage as well as the social times of the fashion world in Pari...

Edition 10 More sizes on request Close up of Tim. With his 51 years he was by far one of the last remaining big boys in Africa with tusks so long touching the ground. After several ...

From the start, there was something immensely challenging and inspiring about working with animals. Up to that point, I had spent my career photographing subjects I largely controlle...

Edition 5 More sizes on request. It was in the evening, not far from the reintegration unit in Tsavo National Park. I had just taken my last pictures of the day and the orphans were...