“My dad is a photographer” – this sentence accompanied me throughout my childhood and youth. Photography is the one constant in his life. Both professionally and privately, he always has an eye for beauty and at least one camera in his hand.

– Marc Köster (son, photographer, and retoucher)

After deciding a few years ago to drop out of college to become a photographer, I wanted to find the perfect studio (in my eyes) for my training.

When I met Olaf and his team, I quickly realized that I would move from Hamburg to the Allgäu region, 900 km away, for this opportunity.

The fact that I ended up completing the three-year training program as the national winner was probably less due to the first-class training itself than to my boss’s deep engagement with the aesthetics of images and things in general, which had a lasting impact on me.

– Moritz Fähse (former trainee)