Johannes Kroemer was born in a picturesque small town in Thuringia, behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany. Eventually feeling the urge to get out, and after trying Munich and Berlin he settled in New York City in 1993.

He went to Photography School at Lette-Verein Berlin and International Center of Photography, New York.
Upon graduation, and prior to setting out on his own, Kroemer worked for documentary photographers Gilles Peress and Sylvia Plachy, as a studio manager and printer.

Kroemer’s own work can be seen to be many things ­ crisp, clean, vibrant, and incisive are adjectives that spring to mind ­ but it is primarily global. There is no site that is out of reach, there is no setting that is too remote. The photographer has traveled extensively, from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Caribbean, from South America to Saskatchewan, almost all of 50 American States. He has shot portraits and feature stories for magazines such as Vanity Fair, Wired, INC., Stern, DIE ZEIT, GEO, corporate publications for companies such as Siemens, Lufthansa, HP, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Private Banking and others.

A passionate skier, Kroemer had turned his love for snow and winter into a vital part of his career, and shooting skiing with a lifestyle angle makes his work quite different

from conventional sports photography. It’s not only a challenge to get the picture ­ he’s got to get down the mountain as well.

You have to be a fairly decent skier to shoot good skiers, he says. "You have to come down the same powdery 45° slope they do. You shoot in the driving snow. You shoot while you ski. And you do all that with the knowledge that you cannot crash because you carry your livelihood, in the form of your gear, in your backpack."

Joining forces with his wife, Vanina Feldsztein, an accomplished photographer and film camera operator, there is a new opportunity opening up, as photography and video are moving closer together.

The ability to provide both still photography and video for clients, as Kroemer and Feldsztein are doing, opens up a whole new way of working for the couple. "Everyone now has a website, and thus needs video" Kroemer explains. "For instance, a ski resort can use video to show what the experience of skiing down their trails looks like from the point of view of one skier. Other companies use video testimonials of their clients. Pretty much everyone who wants to the interactivity of their site uses video."

The result of this collaboration is Ninetynine Films. Feldsztein has over a decade’s experience working with a

wide range of DPs and clients in all aspects of filmmaking; matched by Kroemer’s cinematic eye, both are more than ready to take advantage of the need to multitask.

Ninetyninefilms.com will be unveiled in early 2011.

May 19 - June 17, 2010
"Heart for Haiti"
Auction, online and at Aperture Gallery, New York, NY

January 15 - April 29, 2010
"Signature Power - Legends and other Myths"
MicroMuseum Brooklyn, NY

August 2009
Finalist, Critical Mass

July 25th - September 8, 2009
Foto8 Summer Show
Host Gallery, London, UK

September 27 - November15, 2008
"Twins-Sets of Two"
Micromuseum, Brooklyn, NY
Voted Best in Show