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Christian Müller is not only a widely-experienced journalist and copywriter. He is also a skilled user of the camera lens (as long as it isn’t in studio sessions with all their complex technology) and is adept at compiling his images into vivid photo features. Landscapes, fauna and flora are his particular strengths – along with people, of course, on all continents and in all of life’s many and varied settings.
As the author and photographer of the illustrated books “The Pilatus PC-6: a plane for all occasions” and “The Pilatus PC-12: a winner the world over”, Christian Müller went to Alaska to photograph a PC-6 floatplane from a second aircraft flying alongside. He also travelled to Australia to observe the famed Flying Doctors, who use the PC-12 to respond to emergency calls in Australia’s vast Outback, and to New Zealand to record the glacier pilots who make their spectacular landings on Mount Cook’s perennial ice. And the 3 a.m. wedding dance of a newly-married couple in Perugia is snapped with as much immediacy and sensitivity as the terminally-ill child in the arms of its mother in a camp for landless farm workers beneath Brazil’s tropical sun.Needless to say, Christian Müller is well equipped technically, too. He handles his telephoto lenses as firmly and confidently for his animal photos in the African bush as he wields the special perspective-correcting Nikon lens which he uses for his Prague architectural shots.
Looking to commission an out-of-the-ordinary photo reportage where – for cost reasons, perhaps – you’d prefer not to send a reporter and a photographer? All-rounder Christian Müller may be your man.
Reportage
Christian Müller has been (almost) all over the world. In the course of his travels, he has been primarily intrigued not by the usual tourist attractions but by the local people – their cultures, their customs and the way they live their lives.
Wildlife
He has always had a particular fascination, too, for photographing animals in their natural environment, such as the game reserves of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. But plants, rocks and water in all their forms are further key subjects of the Müller lens. Indeed, nature is one of the prime focuses in all his photographic activities.
Aviation
When he reached the age of 45, Christian Müller decided to fulfil a boyhood dream: he learnt to fly, and went on to pilot various types of aircraft in his spare time, from a Cessna 152 to a Piper Arrow and a Zlin Z 242 L aerobatics aircraft. His two aviation books bear further testimony to his passion for the skies.
People
An expressive face, a revealing gesture, an enchanting movement… people the way they are and the way they behave: that’s what interests Christian Müller most. And that’s how he photographs them: no make-up artist, no studio wizardry, just an indirect flash as the sole technical aid. It’s the fascination of people themselves, with a little of the “meaning of life” thrown in.
Landscapes / Architecture
Anyone who believes that landscape photography is boring does not have seeing eyes. The same landscape viewed and photographed from the same location will constantly change with the season, the weather and the time of day. It’s just the same with man-made constructions. Temples, bridges, even “ordinary” houses: every picture has its story to tell.