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

2017

2016

Lecture Presentation

Soft Skills – Telling stories with photographs
CEIBS Business School, Shanghai

2016

2016

BFF-Awards

Silver Medal  Sprinter
Merit High-Tech Training Facility

2016

2015

BFF Awards

Silver Medal Soccer World Cup, Brazil, 2014

2015

2014

BFF Awards

Merit Traditional Farming

2014

2012

Best PR-Photo

Corporate Communications Future is our element
for DAIMLER AG

2012

2007

Best PR-Photo

Category: Portraits for BAYER AG

2007

2006

Journalist Award “Bahnhof”

for GEO Photo Essay Palace of the Trains

2006

2003

Hansel-Mieth-Award

2003

1999

WORLD PRESS AWARD

Category: Science – STERN Photo Essay
Matter Monks – CERN Research Center

1999

1998

Exhibition

Photography Museum, Braunschweig

1998

1998

Best Annual Report

for BAYER AG by Art Finance

1998

1997

WORLD PRESS AWARD

Category: Sports – STERN Photo Essay Olympians – On the Way to Gold – Athletes, Atlanta Olympics 1996

1997

1996

WORLD PRESS AWARD

STERN photo essay Cuban Dance

1996

1995

German Art Directors Club

Bronce Medal STERN Photo Essay on Cuba

1995

1993

WORLD PRESS AWARD

Category: Science – STERN Photo Essay Genetics

1993

1992

German Art Directors Club

Gold Medal – STERN Photo Essay Art against Clearcutting – Brazil

1992

1992

KODAK Calendar Award

Surgery and Aesthetics

1992

1988

Lecture Presentation

at the INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE in Aspen, Colorado Cutting Edge in Magazine Photography

1988

1987

International Center of Photography, New York

2nd Prize, Worldwide Best Photographers under 30

1987

1986

WORLD PRESS AWARD

Category: Science

1986

1985 - 1990

Contract Photographer

STERN-Magazine

1985 - 1990

1983

WORLD PRESS PHOTO

Honorable Mention

1983

1978 - 1983

German Sports University Cologne, DSHS

studying Physical Education

1978 - 1983

1976

German Youth Photo Award

1976

1974

German Youth Photo Award

1974

1958

Schramberg, Black Forest, Germany

born

1958

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