CAMERA WORK was founded in 1997 in Berlin, and has since then become one of the worldwide leading galleries for photography. With its historically coined gallery name, the gallery has always followed the philosophy to represent, next to world famous classic photographers such as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Herb Ritts, and Albert Watson, young and contemporary artists, to manifest the position of photography as an independent genre within visual art and to give room to new positions. CAMERA WORK exclusively represents many prominent contemporary artists in Germany, Europe and around the world such as Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Russell James, Chris Levine, Eugenio Recuenco, Martin Schoeller, Christian Tagliavini, Ruud van Empel, Dean West, and David Yarrow. CAMERA WORK regularly participates in major international photography and art fairs, such as Art Central Hong Kong, Zona Maco in Mexico City, Paris Photo, Art Miami, and Photo London.
In 2020, CAMERA WORK established CAMERA WORK Virtual Gallery — an innovative, high quality online gallery where art collectors and art lovers can experience exclusive exhibitions: www.camerawork.de/en/virtualgallery/.
CAMERA WORK AG, founded in 2001, owns one of the world’s most extensive and high-quality private photography collections with numerous vintage works by the most famous photographers of the 19th century up to the present. Beyond emphases on fashion, nude, and portrait photography, CAMERA WORK also focuses on the genres architecture and still life. From 2006 to 2019, CAMERA WORK presented THE KENNEDYS museum in Berlin, Germany.
