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"But I just stood there hypnotised by all the beautiful madness"


Travel and Shoot on Available Light and Decisive Moment

Visual focus on cultural diversity, archaic sports, nature and animism

 

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contact@shadowplay-photography.com

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"Few, if anyone, will ever see the world through your eyes"

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Awards & Releases

Gold Medal PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris

Category Winner Of The Year "Culture" NY Awards 2021 

Gold Winner "Sports" New York Photography Awards 2021
Twofold Platinum Winner MUSE Photography Awards 2022
Silver Medal Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021

Category-Winner Sony World Photography Award 2014

Category-Winner Sony World Photography Award 2011

Winner Budapest International Foto Awards 2021
Gold Winner SPORTS Category BIFA Awards 2021

Finalist London International Creative Competition 2020

2x Certificate of Achievement Prix de la Photographie Paris 2021

Honorees and Nominees Black & White Spider Awards 2021

Honorable Mention Monovisions Award, London UK 2021
4 Honorables/Nominations International Color Awards 2020

Top5 San Francisco International Photography Awards

International Color Awards - Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art

Photography Masters Cup - Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art

Moscow International Foto Award / Finalist

34th Annual Photography Contest / Finalist

London International Creative Competition - Mark Of Excellence
Winner Premium Photo Competition 2020 by Thorsten Overgaard
Four-time Winner I-SHOT-IT Street- and Child Competition 2020
Winner 2014 International Feature Photographer Competition
Photographer Of The Month - World Photography Organisation
Mark Of Excellence Leica Black & White Competition
Shortlist Society Of Biology (Home, Habit & Shelter)

Winner CEWE Sonderpreis ROT
Winner ISI Contest Children by Leica
Winner ISI Contest Sports by Leica

Winner ISI Premium Contest by Leica
Winner ColorFoto Contest "Bewegung"

Marks Of Excellence and Honorable Mentions

(IPA, WPO o. Master's Cup, Epson Pano..)​
Schwarz Weiss 100 Jubilee Edition
Schwarz Weiss Edition 134, 140, 170
Kumbh Mela by Naren Herrero
Enfoque Visual (Colombia's No.1)
YellowKorner Stock Paris
YellowKorner "Shadowplay" Portfolio
Sunday Times
N.Y. Times
Ethic Magazine Spain
World Photography Organization Magazine
Photographer Of The Year Book (Annual Spring)
NABU Campaign "Tarsius Tarsier"

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My ambition for competition faded peacefully.

Like a fly on the wall at my own funeral, I am free.

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Equipment: GFX Large Format

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​We organize professional prints.
 

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© 2026 by weinhardt & kirchner

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