Mathias Kniepeiss

„Technology is not making the Image but it enables the creative mind to do things that are not possible without“

Mathias Kniepeiss turned his passion into his profession. 18 years later he is a award winning photographer, creative director, workshop instructor, lecturer  and digital artist. He has been working in the fields of sports, industry, portraits, reportage & commercial in over 50 countries of the world for international agencies and brands like Red Bull, Getty Images, WWP, Bavaria, Kaspersky and many more…

In addition he is working in the fields of concept development, strategic image composing, implementations of exceptional ideas and together with specialists he creates artworks within historical scenarios of different time periods, a mix fusion of staged photography and digital painting.

Career Highlights

Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador

10 times official photographer at the Hahnenkamm Ski Race in Kitzbühel

5 seasons team photographer of Red Bull Racing & Scuderia Toro Rosso in F1

4 times official photographer of Moscow City Racing

3 seasons official photographer of the DCL – Drone Champions League

2 times official photographer at the Life Ball

2 times official photographer at the „Red Bull Hare Scramble”

Bavaria show run photographer in Moscow, Rotterdam and Dublin

Red Bull show run photographer in Budapest, London, Pamplona, Moscow & Paris

Part of the organisation team of the showrun in Doha in cooperation with Shell and Ferrari

shootings with Bill Clinton, Quentin Tarantino, Sebastian Vettel, David Coulthard, Felix Baumgartner,
Marcel Hirscher, David Alaba, Victoria Swarovski, Jan Josef Liefers, Avicii & David Guetta

Companies, brands & artists, i´ve worked with

WWP, Getty Images, GEPA pictures, Eckstein & Korsa Media

Sony, Kaspersky, UEFA, Orbit, Mars, Bavaria, Panerai, Shell, DCL, Breitling, DHL & Advantage Austria New York

Red Bull, Casinos Austria, F-List, Schullin, Trilux, Puls 4, Tyromotion, NEO, Faircheck, Dr. Böhm, Messner, Museum der Illusionen, Ivents & Genii

Industriellenvereinigung Steiermark, Wirtschaftsbund Steiermark, SFG & Land Steiermark

Pankl Racing, Marienhütte, Magna Steyr, XAL, Epcos, Borealis & X-Tec

Andreas Gursky, Erwin Wurm, Johannes Stötter & Alessio Benetti