Dominik Obertreis : a flying visit to hotels for ELECTROLUX, SAMSUNG – industry report in Rumania, people and office routine for PLUTA Rechtsanwalts GmbH, ...

Dominic travelled across Italy with Markus Krämer (CD / Team by Krämer Eckl), to shoot the fine products by ELECTROLUX in various hotels.

A great start was the 5-star hotel ‘The St. Regis Grand Hotel’ and ‘The Westin Excelsior’ in Rome, where they got a look behind the scenes in the kitchens and laundry rooms. They found nice and open-minded staff everywhere, who acted very naturally in front of the camera.

The last destination was the beautiful ‘Alpina Dolomites’ on the Seiser Alm, and it seemed only natural for Dominik to start the sunny day with a mountain run…

In Rumania, Dominik shot an industry report for SAMSUNG in the large steel factory Otelinox: ‘the journey from Bucharest to Tragovishte showed me a very poor country and when I entered the steel factory I actually thought I was in the wrong place, because the first production halls looked so antiquated’, said the photographer.

But this didn’t disconcert him – after all he loves to improvise and to transform gloomy, dirty and loud industry halls into impressive backdrops.

‘Luckily, after the first location check we found an ideal area, and it was impressive to meet the five leading managers and to work with an international team in the middle of Rumania.’

The Cheil Germany agency (art direction: Heide Kotzyba/Benito Opitz) oversaw the shoot.

For the insolvency administrator PLUTA, Dominik travelled to a few German cities, but also branches in Madrid and Barcelona. Life and work in the offices, and especially the individual employees, were documented for their Internet presence and various publications.

LAYHER on the other hand was more of a home run: very close to his home, he had the chance to illustrate the corporate brochure for the successful scaffolding company. The creative director was Oliver Wessels from Dongowski & Simon brand consultants.

On Dominik’s homepage (www.obertreis.de), there are further images from the stories under the heading ‘recent work’, and as usual there is the related best-of category under ‘download’. By the way, on his blog he continues to post about where he happens to be releasing the shutter at the moment.