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Juergen Teller

Pascal Ferro

Juergen Teller

Photographer
German·b. 1964
Known for:
lo-fi fashion and portrait photography
Education:
Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie, Munich (1984-1986)

Juergen Teller began his career photographing musicians in the early 1990s - Kurt Cobain, Björk, Courtney Love - before moving into fashion, where his deliberately lo-fi aesthetic distinguished him from the prevailing glossy conventions of the industry. He has shot advertising campaigns for Marc Jacobs and Céline for more than two decades. He uses a simple flash and a compact camera, and has described his work as depending entirely on trust between himself and his subjects.

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Contax G2

Contax

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Signature camera with TLA 200 Contax flash; defines his raw, unpolished aesthetic

Product description

Autofocus 35mm rangefinder made by Kyocera from 1996 to 2005, with a titanium body and interchangeable Carl Zeiss lenses. Uses near-infrared active autofocus with continuous and single modes. Offers shutter speeds up to 1/6000s in aperture-priority mode and 1/4000s in manual, with a parallax-correcting optical zoom viewfinder covering 28mm to 90mm.

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Last updated March 20, 2026