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About Juergen Specht

• The Photographer

  Juergen Specht is a German photographer living in Tokyo, Japan since 1999, providing studio and on-location shootings, event photography, location scouting and more.

  His photographs are widely internationally published in magazines like Business Week, CaM'Interesse, Cent Magazine, Computer Foto, Computer Sweden, Der Spiegel, eCompany Now, EL Magazine, Fast Company, Go Wireless, Interior+Design, Japan Inc., Hair Mode, LDNM, M-Business Magazine, Mark Magazine, Maxim, Metropolis, Mobile Internet, Online Today, Photo-I, Photographie, Player Magazine, Popular Science, Shots, Stern, Surprise, T3 Magazine, Tank Magazine, Telecom Magazin, TIP, Wallpaper, X-Mag, Zitty Magazine etc., in Newspapers like Berliner Kurier, Berliner Morgenpost, Berliner Zeitung, Boston Globe, Der Tagesspiegel, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, IT Viikko, Japan Times, New York Times, Sonntags Zeitung, TAZ, The Guardian, etc., in Scientific Books, School Books, Books about Abandoned Places, Business Books and Erotic Photo Books, on CD and record covers of known and unknown bands, in countless flyers, company brochures, newsletters and on web sites around the world. His photos play even a crucial role in the Japanese movie "Starfish Hotel".

  Well known commercial clients include the Irish Government, Honda, Panasonic and Land Rover.

  Juergen Specht has been taking photographs for over thirty years.
  He started working as a semi-professional while living in Berlin, Germany, and turned professional when he moved to Japan in 1999.

  Juergen Specht is available for assignments and can be contacted in English, German or 日本語.

• The Artist

  This web site chronicles the personal work of Juergen Specht and his lifelong passion about photography, women and light.

  Juergen writes: "Women are beautiful and light is fascinating. I use the beauty of a woman to play with light, allowing her natural form to create an installation that is less about the erotic than about the expression of my visual thinking. This expression is the consuming passion of my life.

  Ideas come to me, demanding realization. They take up space in my mind, growing larger and larger until there is nothing I can do but get them out of my mind into photographs, freeing me up to move on. The process of realization is like a temporary obsession, and the shooting is like falling in love over and over, albeit temporarily. Sometimes the moments are so beautiful, I just cannot stop shooting.

  Naturally, as every beauty is unique I also choose not to repeat the shots, keeping me in a state of permanent excitement about what is to come, and completely present in the gorgeous detail of the dancing light."

  Juergen participated so far in the following exhibitions:

  • Solo Exhibition Zero in O-175, Berlin, Germany (1999)
  • Solo Exhibition "Exposure" in Club Gallery Pipers, Tokyo, Japan (2005)
  • Solo Exhibition "Marihana" in Cafe&Bar BLOO MOON, Tokyo, Japan (2005)
  • Group Exhibition and Open Studio Shooting at The Gate Party, Tokyo, Japan (2006)
  • Group Exhibition "Leben im Karton", Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (2008/2009)
  • Solo Exhibition "私の目を喜ばせるもの [Those Which Make My Eyes Rejoice]" at Place M, Tokyo, Japan (2009)

• The Consultant

  

  Juergen Specht is a consultant to the international photo industry.

  Recent projects include:

  • Concept and Programming of the 4th iteration of this very web site with the goal to utilize all current web technologies to create an extremely fast and user friendly photo presentation site (2009).
  • Technical Concept, Realization and Supervision of Photo Shopping Site "Rakuten Shashinkan", a massive scalable web service able to securely store and process billions of photos for Japans second biggest Internet company "Rakuten Ichiba" (2008-2009).
  • Technical Concept and Realization of a Remote Photo Processing multi-language B2B network and integration to most international photo processing providers with more than 20,000 shop locations worldwide, created for photo processing specialist "PhotoWonder Inc." based in Japan. (2004-2008).
  • Founder of OpenRAW organization, educating camera manufacturers and the public about the risks of proprietary RAW image formats (2005~).
  • Founder and Maintainer of Mailing List "D1scussion", a forum for professional photographers using Nikon DSLR's (1999~).
  • Founder and Maintainer of the mother of all Japanese gadget blogs, the "Visual Showcase of Japanese Keitai-Culture", providing the mobile industry with visual research into Japanese high-tech mobile technology (2000-2005).
  • Prior to these photo related projects Juergen Specht co-founded Nooper Inc. (Japan), a consulting and development company, providing technical consulting to major international telecom companies and developed the mobile service "Nooper" which was consequently sold to ValueClick Japan in 2003.

  Before coming to Japan in 1999, Juergen Specht founded the Media-Link GbR (Germany), a consulting and development company and the KULTURBOX GmbH (Germany), an innovative, pioneering company responsible for some of the most prominent Internet projects in Germany from 1993-1998. Projects included the very first live Internet coverage of the Movie Festival "Berlinale" (1994), the official presentation of Christo & Jeanne-Claude's "Wrapping of the Reichstag" (1995), the first web based city map service (1995~) and Germans biggest online forum KBX (1998-2001). Additionally the KULTURBOX helped thousands of individual artists and cultural organizations with their first presentations on the Internet.

  Juergen got first access to computers 30 years ago, taught himself programming in a variety of languages, sent his first email in 1986, had his first web site up and running in 1993 and went not offline since.

  Juergen Specht is available for consulting assignments and can be contacted in English, German or 日本語.