andreas gebhard

Welcome! My name is Andreas Gebhard and I live in New York City. Lucky me!

I assume you're here to find out a bit more about me and while I'm conscious of my privacy, the following is easy enough to find out with a bit of searching anyway—so I may as well save you the hassle:

Before moving to New York in early 2008, I used to live in Germany; most recently in Munich. But truth be told, Berlin is what I actually consider my hometown—even though I spent only a shamefully short part of my life actually living there. (So far, anyway...) A chronically cash-strapped city, culturally diverse, at times dirty and with a little edge, full of attitudinal cabbies and locals who tend to consider it the center of the universe¹ —Berlin is just one of those few world's greatest places to be! And my birthplace, too. Again: Lucky me!

I allow myself to be largely defined by my work² because I actually love what I do: I work in the news media and I am one of those folks who deep down inside still believe that it's a privilege to tell the news to the world—one that we must not endanger out of stupidity, ignorance, greed or for any other reason, really.

I work for the world's largest photo agency, Getty Images, managing the editorial division's Global Picture Desk in New York. I joined Getty Images mid-2005 in Germany to lead the Editorial Picture Unit for News and Entertainment in Munich. Before accepting that job, I spent five and a half years in various capacities, from photographer to managing editor, at a domestic German news agency, ddp Nachrichtenagentur. After having had a modest part in ddp becoming internationally recognized for its news pictures service it was time to move on to a new and more challenging place to work. I have not looked back.

Actually, I started my professional life as photographer at the Journal-Courier in Jacksonville, IL in 1993 while being an exchange student at the local high school. Back in those days, the Journal-Courier was one of Illinois' premier visual newspapers of its size, thanks to talented and award-winning photographers and designers. It was extremely inspiring for a young kid like me. Once again: Lucky me!

Suddenly, it's more than 15 years later and I have been based as a photographer in Frankfurt and Munich, have since moved to photo editing and later to leading editorial desks in Berlin, Munich and now in New York.

When I'm not in the office or sitting at one of my computers³, I had come to enjoy playing golf. I find this admittedly a bit hard to do here and I haven't played in a number of years, unfortunately. So I do what millions of other New Yorkers call sport: I spend a varying number of more or less mind-numbing hours on treadmills and in gyms this city clearly has no shortage of.

What more can I say? Thanks for stopping by, if you'd like to , go ahead and do so.