In New York with super model Charlene Högger · Video by Evan Guttman

Photo by Kim

Lectures | Keynotes

  • COMING SOON!
    Les Rencontres d’Arles · Speaking on stage about “HÔTEL NOIR II” supported by LEICA Camera AG
    More Informations soon · Arles/France · 2024
  • 11th International Conference on Authors’ Rights at Akademie der Künste · Berlin · 2023
  • 50 Years BFF-Symposium · Oberhafen Quartier, Hamburg · 2019
  • AMD Academy for Fashion and Design · Düsseldorf · 2015 / 2017
  • APPLE Inc. · APPLE Store Jungfernstieg · Hamburg · 2013
  • BERLIN PHOTO WEEK · 2021
  • BERLIN PHOTO WEEK · 2022
  • BFF Conference · “A talk about making a book” · Stuttgart · 2022
  • BFF Conference · “The critical eye on the world around us” · Stuttgart · 2022
  • BFF Pro Talks at NRW Forum · Düsseldorf · 2018
  • BMW Executive Club Tour X Leica Camera · Wetzlar · 2021
  • CALUMET photographic · Hamburg · 2010
  • Canon Academy PRO Forum · Canon Convention Center · Krefeld · 2017
  • Creative Week Frankfurt · DDC X BFF · Frankfurt · 2019
  • FFA Fördergemeinschaft fotografische Ausbildung · Bielefeld · 2013 / 2017
  • FH Wiesbaden · University of Applied Sciences · Wiesbaden · 2013
  • Fujifilm · Photokina X-talks · fair stage at Photokina · Cologne · 2014
  • Fujifilm · X-Series Tour · 2013
  • Gymnasium Georg Ernst · Schleusingen · 2008
  • Hasselblad pro talks · Zeise Kinos · Hamburg · 2010
  • Hochschule Hannover · University of Applied Sciences and Arts · Hannover · 2014
  • Hochschule Mannheim · University of Applied Sciences · Mannheim · 2015
  • Hochschule München · University of Applied Sciences · München · 2015 / 2016
  • Katapult° Festival · Frankfurt/Main · 2012
  • LAZI Akademie · The European School of Film and Design · Stuttgart · 2010 / 2013 / 2014
  • LAZI Akademie · Together with Igor Panitz in 2015 & Simon Puschmann in 2016 · Stuttgart · 2015 / 2016
  • LAZI Akademie · The European School of Film and Design · As patron of the diploma exhibition in Stuttgart · 2017
  • Linhof X BFF · “Lost in Transformation” · Exhibition pro talks · Munich · 2019
  • Marketing Club Frankfurt · FRALounge at Frankfurt International Airport, Frankfurt/Main · 2022
  • McCANN Worldgroup Berlin · “Speak up” in the agency · Berlin · 2016
  • Meister Camera Hamburg · talk with Silke Güldner about my professional career · Hamburg · 2023
  • Mercedes-Benz me Store · talking about “Light in Photography” · Hamburg · 2016
  • Mercedes-Benz me Store · presenting the project “Black is the color of my true love’s hair” · Hamburg · 2015
  • Mercuri Urval · Lecture about self marketing · Dresden · 2016
  • Museum for Ethnology · day of analog photography · Hamburg · 2014
  • nik Software · webinar · Hamburg · 2010
  • OLYMPUS Photography Playground · Kraftwerk · Berlin · 2017
  • Only Art Club Gallery · Artist talk about “Light” · Hamburg · 2016
  • OPEN SHOW Hamburg #4 at STILWERK · Hamburg · 2014
  • Photo Convention »horizonte zingst« powered by ADOBE® · Zingst · 2016
  • Photo festival »horizonte zingst« for the new BFF Award · Zingst · 2018
  • Photokina Pro Talks · “professional stage” in Hall 4 · Cologne · 2016
  • Photopia · “Collected MakingOf’s from 10 Years in Photograph” · Hamburg · 2021
  • Photopia · “The critical eye on the world around us”· Hamburg · 2022
  • Photopia · “A talk about making a book”· Hamburg · 2022
  • Photopia · About AI & Photography · Hamburg · 2023
  • ProfiFoto MasterClass – powered by LEICA · Wetzlar · 2022
  • tPIC Conference at Berlin Photo Week · Kraftwerk · Berlin · 2019
  • tPIC Conference · Online-Lecture · 2020
  • “Triebwerk 2” at Kant Garagen, Berlin · Talking about the iconic ingredients of photography · Berlin · 2016
  • “Triebwerk 4” Berlin – BFF Open Stage · Kulturbrauerei – Kesselhaus · Berlin · 2018

Rare making of from the “HÔTEL NOIR” project • Photo by Leila Ivarsson

Self portrait

“Your photos have a dreamlike quality with a fantasy element to it.
It always looks like you have a great personal connection with your models. Most photographers lack that personal connection.
It’s interesting because you’re ahead of the curve in your work”

Helen Todd

When work looks like a dream

Jury Participations

from time to time i’m asked to take part in jury processes of photographic awards.

  • ADC Awards 2023 · Publishing/Editorial · Hamburg · 2022
  • ADC Awards 2022 · Craft/Photography · Hamburg · 2022
  • ADC Awards 2021 · Craft/Photography · Hamburg · 2021
  • ADC Awards 2020 · Jury Chairman · Craft/Photography · Hamburg · 2020
  • Tamron TakeOff · Photo Award for photographers under 25 · Düsseldorf · 2017
  • Mercedes-Benz me Store Hamburg Instagram Challenge · #JKSmehamburg @mercedesme.hamburg · Hamburg · 2015
  • Tetenal European B/W Classics Award 2015 · jury colleague: F. C. Gundlach · Hamburg · 2015
  • FFA Fördergemeinschaft fotografische Ausbildung · “Best of Wäscheleine” · Bielefeld · 2013
  • Hasselblad photo project 2011 · Hamburg · 2010

“J. Konrad Schmidt is one of the nicest persons I have ever met. Not only an extraordinary photographer but also a walking dictionary regarding photography. Too shy to admit his enormous skills but also somebody who does not keep his expertise for himself. Only 39 years of age, can you imagine what great career lies in front of him?!”

Ferry van der Vliet

Editorials | Publications

  • art – Das Kunst Magazin
  • Black+White Photography
  • BLONDE magazine
  • Boat International
  • BusinessPunk
  • Collection magazine
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Deutschlandfunk
  • DIE WELT
  • DIE ZEIT online
  • ELLE (Brazil)
  • ELLE (Germany)
  • Emotion
  • FastForward magazine
  • FAZ
  • Fazemag
  • FluxFM
  • Formliner magazine
  • FRAME magazine
  • Friends of BENTLEY magazine
  • GALA
  • GALORE magazine
  • GoSIXT magazine
  • Groove
  • Horizonte magazine
  • INSPIRE magazine by Kamps Holding
  • Interview magazine USA
  • Kaltblut magazine
  • Les Inrockuptibles (Paris)
  • LFI magazine
  • Luxury magazine
  • Matador magazine
  • me magazine by Mercedes-Benz
  • Musikexpress
  • NEON
  • NZZ
  • Playful magazine
  • PSM magazine
  • R2M magazine
  • Ramp Style magazine
  • Ramp magazine
  • RND RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland
  • Retrowelt
  • Robb Report
  • Rolling Stone
  • Sage magazine
  • St. Moritz automobile club magazine (SMAC)
  • Spektrum magazine
  • Spex magazine
  • DER SPIEGEL
  • Stern
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung
  • The Forest magazine
  • Variety
  • VOGUE Business

photo by KLAUS MELLENTHIN

Charity

Only those who know what’s missing will be those who care. For that reason i support charity auctions with my photography art work for years. I fund money for projects that deserve attention and especially for science against bad diseases to maybe make them curable one day.

  • NCL charity auction “LebensKünstler” in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
    to support medical science to cure the deadly children’s disease neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosesin (called NCL) in association with Union Investment
    www.ncl-stiftung.de
  • CHRISTIE’s charity auction 2013, 2014 and 2016 supporting the “Welthungerhilfe”
    Funding for a bio cacao farming project in Sierra Leone in association with AUDI cars
    www.welthungerhilfe.de

„Your Images are a reflection of your thoughts, beautiful…”

Frederick A. Burton

Agencies | Design Studios | Production Houses

 

  • 24/7
  • ANORAK
  • Arthen Kommunikation
  • BECC
  • CE+Co
  • Chelsy
  • CP Department
  • DieKameradinnen
  • Drehmoment
  • e+p Films
  • Edelmann|ergo
  • Ergo Kommunikation
  • facts&fiction
  • Family AG (Switzerland)
  • FCB Zurich
  • The Game Group London
  • Hochkant Film
  • Huawei Art Studio Beijing
  • JEDI visual
  • Jung von Matt Hamburg
  • Jung von Matt/NEXT ALSTER
  • kdgroup
  • Knitterfisch
  • Liganova
  • Looping Group
  • Mandarin
  • MediaCompany
  • media.monks
  • The Mill
  • MOTO Group
  • Nest One
  • Neues Handeln
  • OneWorx
  • premiummedia
  • Publicis Pixelpark
  • Raffaele Castelli Creative Lab
  • Ressourcenmangel
  • Ruska, Martín, Associates
  • Scholz&Friends Hamburg
  • SelectNY. Berlin
  • SelectNY. Hamburg
  • Serviceplan Hamburg
  • Serviceplan Munich
  • Singular Barcelona
  • TBWA Beijing
  • TeamX Berlin
  • Territory Munich
  • Territory Hamburg
  • TLGG
  • TPFilm
  • Visualworx
  • Webguerillas

Making Of from Lago di Garda on a Frauscher “858 Fantom”

Celebrities | Musicians | Personalities | Politians

  • Alle Farben
  • Andrea Nahles
  • Bode Miller
  • Kulturstaatsministerin Claudia Roth
  • Clueso
  • David Coulthard
  • Einmusik
  • Eva Padberg
  • Francesco Friedrich
  • Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier
  • Franziska Giffey
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Garabed Antranikian
  • Dr. Gerd Müller
  • Bundesminister Hubertus Heil
  • HUNDREDS
  • Dr. Harald Falckenberg
  • Sir Jeffrey Tate
  • Jens Spahn
  • Joachim Löw
  • Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka
  • Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für die Belange von Menschen mit Behinderungen Jürgen Dusel
  • Lewis Hamilton
  • Marie Nasemann
  • Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz
  • Martin Kohlstedt
  • Max Herre
  • Mika Häkkinen
  • Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer
  • Nico Rosberg
  • Olga Scheps
  • Placebo
  • Stefan Quandt
  • Sylvain Cambreling
  • Till Brönner
  • Toni Garrn
  • Udo Lindenberg
  • Ursula von der Leyen