The BMW XM Hybrid, photographed in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills by MARC TRAUTMANN for the car-sharing marketplace TURO

Marc Trautmann - Born in the 60´s - Grown up in the 70´s - Starting with Photography in the mid 80´s. In the late 80´s he started studies in Photography and Art History. In the late 80´s he started assisting and working for photographers in Germany and international. Travel through Central and South America in 92´ and worked for Annie Leibovitz in 1994 on shoots in Paris and Germany.Travel through South East Asia in 94. After his travels he started to set up his own phtographers atelier. His work was always influenced by Film Music, Fashion and Arts.

In his early days he worked for fashion brands, electronic music magazines and took pictures of Daft Punk, Air, Chemical brothers and many more. He shot Fashion for Vogue Hommes, Optimum Magazine and brands like Drykorn.

His knowledge for car photography he gained from assisting to car photographers and travelling all over the world to shoot cars in landscape and architectual enviroment. In his present time he is mainly shooting Cars and People.

Beside that he works on his personal projects. One is a lifetime project named “Cinemasopes fictional film stills”, another one is off the Radar and another one is secret areas.