LetKiss
  • FASHION WEEKS
    • FASHION REPORT RAF SIMONS FALL / WINTER 2022
  • THE UNSTYLISH VIEW ON STYLE
    • ARINA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MARCO ANTONIO photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • NAOUEL photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FRANÇOIS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • Falke photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • LEA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • BEHNAZ photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • GYVER photographed by Myra
    • RACHELLA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • CLOSE-UP with Jovei Blink
    • DANA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • NAZAR photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
  • STYLE
    • AINHOA by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • In the neighbourhood by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • The New Romantics: A Paris Fashion Tale by Iris Brosch
    • COME UNDONE BY SARA GHAZI-TABATABAI
    • THE NEW SOCIETY photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SOLSTICE photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • “MAGIC BUS STOPS… “ photographed by Frederike Wetzels
    • FEELING DAISY photographed Viola Halfar
    • WISHLIST by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • WORKWEAR photographed by Noel Besuzzi 
    • TEXTURE photographed by Jean Michel Rousvoal
    • VOLLMOND photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • WORLD IN MY EYES photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • #metime photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MAKE UP TUTORIAL NUDE COUTURE by Silène Tonello
    • ANGEL photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MAKE UP TUTORIAL NUDE GLOW by Silène Tonello
    • ABLOHve illustrated by Louise Folly
    • MAKE UP MY MIND by Silène Tonello
    • BIRD OF PARADISE photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • SOLO photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SERENITY photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • VITAMIN C illustrated by Louise Folly
    • IMPOLITESSE photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • STROLL IN PARIS photographed by Iris Brosch
    • ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CIRCUS photographed by Valérie Mathilde
    • BACK IN THE DAYS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • LADY BUTTERFLY photographed by Kei Takeda
    • BLOOM photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • HELLO WORLD illustrated by Louise Folly
    • BLURRED photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • THE VISITORS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SHADES OF ORANGE photographed by Robertino Nikolic
  • PAS DE DEUX
    • ON THE VERGE OF A DREAM by Jorun Larson
    • زن زندگی آزادی WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM by Marjane Saidi
    • Ab-o-Atash photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FLUORITE FANTASIA ( Looking For My Father…) photographed by Yukari Chikura
    • WHEN THE SEA COMES photographed by Alice de Kruijs
    • WONDERLAND photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FADING BEAUTY photographed by Thymournia
    • PARADISE ISLAND photographed by Alice De Kruijs
    • THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY photographed by Hannah Häseker
    • ZAIDO photographed by Yukari Chikura
    • LOVE WITH A VIEW directed by Monsieur Mitri
  • NATURE
    • UNDERWATER by Sabine Hartl
    • FLOWER POWER photographed by Sabine Hartl
    • PLAY OF LIGHT photographed by Alexander Binder
    • FALL OF THE RAVEN photographed by Thymournia
    • THE COLD RIDERS photographed by Alexis Pichot
    • DAZE photographed by PERRINE SOCQUET
    • TIDES IN WINTER photographed by Steffen Klessen
    • OZONE-FRIENDLY photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • TRAUM photographed by Alexander Binder
    • BROKEN HOMELAND photographed by Thierry Mazurel
  • STRUCTURE
    • ETERNAL SPRING photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • PLACES, SPACES photographed by Nina Papiorek
    • A MOVEABLE FEAST photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • IS IT REAL? by Marcus Wallinder
    • PARIS26THFLOOR photographed by Petrov Ahner
    • CRUSH photographed by Gabriele Renna
    • WINDOWS OF NEW HOPE – THE REFUGEE CAMP IN HANOVER photographed by Kaisar Ahamed
    • LIFE, DEATH AND OTHER SIMILAR THINGS photographed by Amin Yousefi
  • DANCE STEPS
    • Utopians: A Limited Edition Coffee Table Book Capturing Visionaries in a Time of Change
    • SUSANNE BANTEL photographed by Holmsohn
    • FACE AND LIGHT photographed by India Lange
    • HOMELAND photographed by Natela Grigalashvili
    • KATJA ROSIN photographed by Claudia Otto
    • FACES OF EMOTION by Miccchelina
    • VALERIIA photographed by Arta Buneta
    • ROCK-A-NORE photographed by Andreas Bleckmann
    • MUSE JONNA by Waldemar Brzezinski
    • PRIVATE SETTING by Birgit Kleber
    • OH HAPPY DAY by Wilken Weddings
    • DEVOTED by Susanne Middelberg
    • THE ESSENCE captured by Ksenia Gintsak
    • DREAMS OF PAPER AND SILVER by Stephen Sheffield
    • LA FRITURE DU NORD photographed by Myra Mirfakhrai
    • MURIELLE photographed by Arta Buneta
    • DOGTOWN photographed by Stephen Lorber
    • JOHANNA photographed by Arta Buneta
    • MELANIE photographed by Camille Roussely
    • PORTRAITS photographed by Dascha Ha
    • SHERE HITE with Iris Brosch
    • FAITH photographed by Claudia Otto
    • BRANDENBURG photographed by Maria Jatzlau
    • LETKISS CRIBS FEAT. ELENA RENÉE PEREIRA
    • HALFWAY THERE photographed by Arta Buneta
    • LETKISS CRIBS FEAT. CARMEN KERWER
    • LETKISS CRIBS feat. Lumi Lausas
    • PEOPLE R photographed by Kai Heimberg
    • BRISA ROCHE photographed by Andrea Herzog
    • OH! DARLING with Uwe Buschmann
    • CLARA BENADOR photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • SARAH MARIE photographed by Sebastian Trägner
    • JURI SENFT photographed by Sofia Zwokbenkel
    • CLARA MÜGGE photographed by Sebastian Trägner
    • CATHLEEN BAUMANN photographed by Sofia Zwokbenkel 
  • ABOUT LETKISS
  • CONTACT
  • FASHION WEEKS
    • FASHION REPORT RAF SIMONS FALL / WINTER 2022
  • THE UNSTYLISH VIEW ON STYLE
    • ARINA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MARCO ANTONIO photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • NAOUEL photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FRANÇOIS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • Falke photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • LEA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • BEHNAZ photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • GYVER photographed by Myra
    • RACHELLA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • CLOSE-UP with Jovei Blink
    • DANA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • NAZAR photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
  • STYLE
    • AINHOA by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • In the neighbourhood by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • The New Romantics: A Paris Fashion Tale by Iris Brosch
    • COME UNDONE BY SARA GHAZI-TABATABAI
    • THE NEW SOCIETY photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SOLSTICE photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • “MAGIC BUS STOPS… “ photographed by Frederike Wetzels
    • FEELING DAISY photographed Viola Halfar
    • WISHLIST by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • WORKWEAR photographed by Noel Besuzzi 
    • TEXTURE photographed by Jean Michel Rousvoal
    • VOLLMOND photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • WORLD IN MY EYES photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • #metime photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MAKE UP TUTORIAL NUDE COUTURE by Silène Tonello
    • ANGEL photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MAKE UP TUTORIAL NUDE GLOW by Silène Tonello
    • ABLOHve illustrated by Louise Folly
    • MAKE UP MY MIND by Silène Tonello
    • BIRD OF PARADISE photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • SOLO photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SERENITY photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • VITAMIN C illustrated by Louise Folly
    • IMPOLITESSE photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • STROLL IN PARIS photographed by Iris Brosch
    • ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CIRCUS photographed by Valérie Mathilde
    • BACK IN THE DAYS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • LADY BUTTERFLY photographed by Kei Takeda
    • BLOOM photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • HELLO WORLD illustrated by Louise Folly
    • BLURRED photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • THE VISITORS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SHADES OF ORANGE photographed by Robertino Nikolic
  • PAS DE DEUX
    • ON THE VERGE OF A DREAM by Jorun Larson
    • زن زندگی آزادی WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM by Marjane Saidi
    • Ab-o-Atash photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FLUORITE FANTASIA ( Looking For My Father…) photographed by Yukari Chikura
    • WHEN THE SEA COMES photographed by Alice de Kruijs
    • WONDERLAND photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FADING BEAUTY photographed by Thymournia
    • PARADISE ISLAND photographed by Alice De Kruijs
    • THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY photographed by Hannah Häseker
    • ZAIDO photographed by Yukari Chikura
    • LOVE WITH A VIEW directed by Monsieur Mitri
  • NATURE
    • UNDERWATER by Sabine Hartl
    • FLOWER POWER photographed by Sabine Hartl
    • PLAY OF LIGHT photographed by Alexander Binder
    • FALL OF THE RAVEN photographed by Thymournia
    • THE COLD RIDERS photographed by Alexis Pichot
    • DAZE photographed by PERRINE SOCQUET
    • TIDES IN WINTER photographed by Steffen Klessen
    • OZONE-FRIENDLY photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • TRAUM photographed by Alexander Binder
    • BROKEN HOMELAND photographed by Thierry Mazurel
  • STRUCTURE
    • ETERNAL SPRING photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • PLACES, SPACES photographed by Nina Papiorek
    • A MOVEABLE FEAST photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • IS IT REAL? by Marcus Wallinder
    • PARIS26THFLOOR photographed by Petrov Ahner
    • CRUSH photographed by Gabriele Renna
    • WINDOWS OF NEW HOPE – THE REFUGEE CAMP IN HANOVER photographed by Kaisar Ahamed
    • LIFE, DEATH AND OTHER SIMILAR THINGS photographed by Amin Yousefi
  • DANCE STEPS
    • Utopians: A Limited Edition Coffee Table Book Capturing Visionaries in a Time of Change
    • SUSANNE BANTEL photographed by Holmsohn
    • FACE AND LIGHT photographed by India Lange
    • HOMELAND photographed by Natela Grigalashvili
    • KATJA ROSIN photographed by Claudia Otto
    • FACES OF EMOTION by Miccchelina
    • VALERIIA photographed by Arta Buneta
    • ROCK-A-NORE photographed by Andreas Bleckmann
    • MUSE JONNA by Waldemar Brzezinski
    • PRIVATE SETTING by Birgit Kleber
    • OH HAPPY DAY by Wilken Weddings
    • DEVOTED by Susanne Middelberg
    • THE ESSENCE captured by Ksenia Gintsak
    • DREAMS OF PAPER AND SILVER by Stephen Sheffield
    • LA FRITURE DU NORD photographed by Myra Mirfakhrai
    • MURIELLE photographed by Arta Buneta
    • DOGTOWN photographed by Stephen Lorber
    • JOHANNA photographed by Arta Buneta
    • MELANIE photographed by Camille Roussely
    • PORTRAITS photographed by Dascha Ha
    • SHERE HITE with Iris Brosch
    • FAITH photographed by Claudia Otto
    • BRANDENBURG photographed by Maria Jatzlau
    • LETKISS CRIBS FEAT. ELENA RENÉE PEREIRA
    • HALFWAY THERE photographed by Arta Buneta
    • LETKISS CRIBS FEAT. CARMEN KERWER
    • LETKISS CRIBS feat. Lumi Lausas
    • PEOPLE R photographed by Kai Heimberg
    • BRISA ROCHE photographed by Andrea Herzog
    • OH! DARLING with Uwe Buschmann
    • CLARA BENADOR photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • SARAH MARIE photographed by Sebastian Trägner
    • JURI SENFT photographed by Sofia Zwokbenkel
    • CLARA MÜGGE photographed by Sebastian Trägner
    • CATHLEEN BAUMANN photographed by Sofia Zwokbenkel 
  • ABOUT LETKISS
  • CONTACT
"Monica Bellucci"
  • DANCE STEPS

PRIVATE SETTING by Birgit Kleber

  • October 9, 2022
Total
3
Shares
0
0
3
0
"Monica Bellucci"
@Birgit Kleber

Who is Birgit Kleber?

A photographer who loves photography, shoes, traveling and meeting with people.

Berlin! You are so wonderful!?

Berlin is like sparkling wine, bubbly, thrilling and an ever-changing place. My favorite city in Germany where I have been living for forty years.

Do you still have a suitcase in New York?

YES!!!!!!!!! My absolute favorite city of all where I have been a lot of times and always going to go again. If Berlin is sparkling wine, New York is CHAMPAGNE! Its vibrancy makes me truly feel that I can do ANYTHING. If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere. Good old Frankie Boy.

When life gives you big apples, make…?

…the most out of it, but don’t take it for granted. Think of others, too.

Fame What‘s your name? (John Lennon/David Bowie/Carlos Alomar)

Fame is boring. 

What makes people famous tends to be what they are rather than what they do?

Is that so? In showbiz maybe, in photography it’s not. Cindy Sherman or Salgado are famous for their work, for what they are doing. Often you may not even know how the photographer looks like whose images you just admired in the exhibition. In fact, one of the reasons for my PHOTOGRAPHERS project. 

"Cindy Sherman"
@Birgit Kleber
"Sebastiao Salgado"
@Birgit Kleber

With whom would you like to spend a whole day?

With Diane Arbus – unfortunately not possible, before my time (1923 -1971) or Richard Avedon, equally no longer possible (1923 – 2004).

“Goldener Bär” or the “Palme d’Or”?

Goldener Bär! Five minutes with Charlotte Rampling or Willem Dafoe alone in a hotel room for a portrait – you won’t get that at Cannes. I have been making photographic portraits in individual sessions at the Berlin film festival for over twenty years. My 2020 exhibition “augen I blicke” at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin presented almost one hundred of them. To be continued for sure!

"Charlotte Rampling"
@Birgit Kleber
"WILLEM DAFOE"
@Birgit Kleber

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed? (William H. Macy)

I have never taken red carpet pictures, but I walked on one once – it felt strange.

Helmut Newton or Wolfgang Tillmans?

Despite there being some parallels to Helmut Newton in my work: it is Wolfgang Tillmans! The associative element in his work fascinates me. Being present at an interview with Wolfgang that Deutsche Welle held at his studio and taking pictures of him for my PHOTOGRAPHERS series afterwards was my greatest pleasure. Amazing! 

How to photograph a photographer?

The hardest challenge indeed! A project very close to my heart that I have been working on for thirty years. To date, I have taken portraits of far more than a hundred internationally known photographers. A who’s who in photography – Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Peter Lindbergh, Saul Leiter, Paolo Roversi and Thomas Hoepker – to name but a few. I work with static poses I demonstrate beforehand which increase concentration and, ideally, for a fraction of one second, make visible something. And that’s the whole point. Sometimes, I fear the meetings, but all are very nice and seem to like the project. Peter Lindberg, for example, immediately treated me like a photographer on a level playing field, shoulder to shoulder (!) when I took pictures of him. When I saw Cindy Sherman at her studio in NYC, she said: “Super, finally someone telling ME what to do!”

"Wolfgang Tillmanns"
@Birgit Kleber
"Saul Leiter"
@Birgit Kleber

Actors tend to act in photos?

No, actually. I have taken pictures of almost six hundred actors up to now – at the Berlin festival, for the TAGESSPIEGEL, the Deutsche Filmmuseum and other newspapers and magazines. Only very, very few acted their parts. I remember when I photographed the grand German stage actor Bernhard Minetti for Stern magazine, he acted his roles one after the other. But I never once clicked the shutter button. Suddenly he screamed at me – the young photographer at her first assignment for STERN – “what are you waiting for, I will never find that expression again!” Still, I kept waiting – trembling – and finally, a lovely portrait came out of it after all.

How do celebrities always look perfect?

There is lighting, makeup and photoshop – you can use and do a lot with of course. But I don’t care actually. I am working with daylight and I want the photographed to look at the viewer from out of their portrait, not the other way round. It is these pictures you preserve in your mind. 

Five-minute egg or three-minute egg?

No eggs. I am a Vegetarian. 

Your most must-binge TV show?

I loved “Sex and the City”!!! And the Manolos!!!

Civilize capitalism!?

Money is important so you can do your living, travel and work. Beyond that a large bank account doesn’t interest me. 

"Peter Lindbergh"
@Birgit Kleber
"Nan Goldin"
@Birgit Kleber

Paradise is…?

Rarotonga!! The principal island of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, east of New Zealand. We had been traveling for forty-four hours to arrive at this island in the South Pacific in 2014, while crossing the international date line several times. Of course, there are palm trees, dreamlike lagoons and warm temperature in other parts of the world, too. Yet, I was instantly fascinated by the special SPIRIT in the air. Immensely friendly people! We stayed at the place of the Rarotonga Queen’s son.

The best animal toy for toddlers?

A meerkat!! In my photographic portraits of animal toys for the „animals“ series I made them look like real animals. The meerkat was the hit!!

One or two things you wish you had known sooner in life?

I should have started the PHOTOGRAPHERS series earlier because I might have met with Lillian Bassman, Richard Avedon or Helmut Newton and taken their pictures.

_Uwe Buschmann (copy editing Silvia Strauch)

"modern queens"
@Birgit Kleber
"modern queens"
@Birgit Kleber
Total
3
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 3
LetKiss

Previous Article
"Ab-o-Atash Park Tehran, Iran peple enjoying water fountains"
  • PAS DE DEUX

Ab-o-Atash photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai

  • September 11, 2022
  • LetKiss
View Post
Next Article
"Underwater lilies"
  • NATURE

UNDERWATER by Sabine Hartl

  • October 23, 2022
  • LetKiss
View Post
You May Also Like
"surrealist Florence Garrett"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

Utopians: A Limited Edition Coffee Table Book Capturing Visionaries in a Time of Change

  • LetKiss
  • June 16, 2024
"Actress Susanne Bantel photographed by Holmsohn"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

SUSANNE BANTEL photographed by Holmsohn

  • LetKiss
  • January 17, 2024
"black and white photo"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

FACE AND LIGHT photographed by India Lange

  • LetKiss
  • October 28, 2023
"Reportage of community in Georgia"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

HOMELAND photographed by Natela Grigalashvili

  • LetKiss
  • August 27, 2023
"Katja Rosin german actress"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

KATJA ROSIN photographed by Claudia Otto

  • LetKiss
  • July 1, 2023
"Portrait woman"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

FACES OF EMOTION by Miccchelina

  • LetKiss
  • May 6, 2023
"Portrait of a woman"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

VALERIIA photographed by Arta Buneta

  • LetKiss
  • January 21, 2023
"people south coast England"
View Post
  • DANCE STEPS

ROCK-A-NORE photographed by Andreas Bleckmann

  • LetKiss
  • December 19, 2022

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

LetKiss LetKiss

Input your search keywords and press Enter.