Stefan May

Stefan May, who was born in Germany in 1962, took up his passion for photography after studying medicine. His first contact with the medium was in the photo lab of the Munich Dermatological Clinic under Prof. Dr. Braun-Falco, where he documented skin diseases with a Leica and a circular flash unit for the archive. The self-taught photographer was later a fashion photography assistant in Sydney for various fashion and beauty photographers.

Ever since he made the decision to devote himself exclusively to photography, he has been working in the international sphere for well-known magazines like Leica Fotografie International, Black & White Australia, Photo Italia, Photo France, GQ, Elle, Vogue and major advertising clients like IBM, Lancaster, Coty Cosmetics, Davidoff and more. His works, presented in an exclusive online archive, continue to feature beauty, body, portraits, celebrities, people, animals, cityscapes and landscape subjects.

More than anything, Stefan May came to fame with his sensual black and white photographs, first published by teNeues in 2002: Couples, Photographs by Stefan May. In 2003, the followup Men, Photographs by Stefan May, was published, and in 2004 Women, Photographs by Stefan May in several edition...