Prestel · Random House · 2023
People of Deutschland
A portrait of contemporary Germany told through thirty-five women of influence. Spiegel bestseller. Photography, culture, and a country seen from the inside.
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Three books written and photographed across two decades — a body of work on identity, fashion, and the culture that shapes both.
People of Deutschland
2023 · Spiegel Bestseller
Photography · Thomas Rafalzyk
“85 Menschen. 85 Geschichten. Ein Buch über unser Land — und wer wir sind.”
Eighty-five people. Eighty-five stories from across Germany — musicians, founders, athletes, artists, and the quietly extraordinary. Shot in black and white, written with precision. A portrait of a country through the people who define it.
Published 2023. Spiegel Bestseller.
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85 portraits · Photography Thomas Rafalzyk · Afterword Düzen Tekkal
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Isabella Blow
2010 · Thames & HudsonPhotography · Dafydd Jones
“Few book launches have drummed up as much excitement as Martina Rink’s Isabella Blow.”
Evening Standard, 2010
The definitive portrait of fashion’s most singular muse. Written by Martina Rink — Isabella Blow’s personal assistant — this is the book that could only come from someone who was in the room: the dinners, the fittings, the private conversations.
Published by Thames & Hudson, 2010.
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Fashion Germany
2014 · Prestel · Random House
“The book’s encyclopedic entries are illustrated with numerous beautiful colour images — followers of contemporary fashion will enjoy this title.”
New York Journal of Books, 2014
An encyclopedic portrait of German fashion — the photographers, designers, editors, models, and stylists who built an industry the world watches without always naming. Short interviews, essays, and hundreds of images collected into a single definitive volume.
Published 2014.
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Three books written across two decades. Each one a document of a world that was worth paying close attention to.
Thames & Hudson · 2010
Isabella Blow —
A Life in Fashion
The definitive visual biography of fashion’s most singular patron. Intimate, meticulous, and unlike anything published on the subject before or since.
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Prestel · Random House · 2014
Fashion Germany
An inside document of the German fashion industry — the creative directors, photographers, stylists, and editors who built it from the ground up.
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Three published books. Two decades of editorial work. The thread running through all of it — the same one running through the private work now — is a fascination with what women do when they stop performing and start choosing.