About
PeterGinter,
… born 1958, is an explorer. The world we live in is the terra incognita he discovers and investigates with his camera. Five times winner of the World Press Award, Ginter is among the most versatile photographers on the international scene.
For more than four decades now he has been travelling the globe for magazines including GEO (over 60 photo essays), National Geographic, STERN (over 50 photo essays) and Paris Match and on behalf of European, American and Asian companies.
His focus:
Man and other wondrous animals.
His beat:
Steppes and the city, hi-tech and low life, the lab and the jungle, sports and adventure.
His method:
Whatever it takes.
VitaMilestones
2017
BFF Awards
2 Gold Medals shafts slaughterhouse, Egypt
Merit Tumor caused by Cesium
2016
Lecture Presentation
Soft Skills – Telling stories with photographs
CEIBS Business School, Shanghai
2016
BFF-Awards
Silver Medal Sprinter
Merit High-Tech Training Facility
2015
BFF Awards
Silver Medal Soccer World Cup, Brazil, 2014
2014
BFF Awards
Merit Traditional Farming
2012
Best PR-Photo
Corporate Communications Future is our element
for DAIMLER AG
2007
Best PR-Photo
Category: Portraits for BAYER AG
2006
Journalist Award “Bahnhof”
for GEO Photo Essay Palace of the Trains
2003
Hansel-Mieth-Award
1999
WORLD PRESS AWARD
Category: Science – STERN Photo Essay
Matter Monks – CERN Research Center
1998
Exhibition
Photography Museum, Braunschweig
1998
Best Annual Report
for BAYER AG by Art Finance
1997
WORLD PRESS AWARD
Category: Sports – STERN Photo Essay Olympians – On the Way to Gold – Athletes, Atlanta Olympics 1996
1996
WORLD PRESS AWARD
STERN photo essay Cuban Dance
1995
German Art Directors Club
Bronce Medal STERN Photo Essay on Cuba
1993
WORLD PRESS AWARD
Category: Science – STERN Photo Essay Genetics
1992
German Art Directors Club
Gold Medal – STERN Photo Essay Art against Clearcutting – Brazil
1992
KODAK Calendar Award
Surgery and Aesthetics
1988
Lecture Presentation
at the INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE in Aspen, Colorado Cutting Edge in Magazine Photography
1987
International Center of Photography, New York
2nd Prize, Worldwide Best Photographers under 30
1986
WORLD PRESS AWARD
Category: Science
1985 - 1990
Contract Photographer
STERN-Magazine
1983
WORLD PRESS PHOTO
Honorable Mention
1978 - 1983
German Sports University Cologne, DSHS
studying Physical Education
1976
German Youth Photo Award
1974
German Youth Photo Award
1958
Schramberg, Black Forest, Germany
born