From a Press Report 2013.
After studying graphic design
and holding a teaching position at the Merz Academy (a design school) in
Stuttgart, Norbert Becke worked as a freelance graphic designer. Since 1991, he
has been the Art Director and managing partner at the JBW GmbH advertising
agency, which he founded. Norbert Becke works for many national and
international companies, groups and institutions primarily from the IT and
consulting industries.
Photography was always an
essential part of his work as a designer. Ever since his first trip to Africa
in 2001, it has become ever more important. Journeys to Botswana, Morocco,
Namibia, Ruanda, Zambia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda then followed.
Wildlife photography is his great passion and contact he is inspired again and
again from his contact with the natives. His photo documentary work in Laos,
Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and India as well as various countries in Africa
created from 2008 to 2013 was published in various magazines and awarded numerous
prizes. He has created many photo calendars for calendar publishers and
companies including MOUNTAIN GORILLAS 2011 with large format wildlife pictures
from the rain forests of Ruanda, NAMIBIA 2013 with spectacular wildlife
pictures or PEOPLE(S) CHILDREN 2012 with child portraits from all around the
world. In addition, his photos have appeared regularly in magazines such as
VIEW, the photography edition of Germany’s STERN magazine or on stern.de.
The editors at STERN have
selected Norbert Becke’s pictures as among the best of the year for 2011 and
2010 and have published them in their VIEW magazine.
Norbert Becke makes insightful
portraits of people from the remote corners of the planet and displays them in
large-format, black and white photographs. They are expressive recordings of
individual moments – some proud and self-confident, but also sad and filled
with melancholy. They are insights into the souls of the people and MOMENTS of
great dignity.
All images © Norbert Becke
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