Stefan May - biography

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 different 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 and major advertising clients. His works, presented in an exclusive online archive, continue to feature people/celebrities and beauty/body subjects. Stefan May became famous mainly for sensual black-and-white photographs from extreme viewpoints allowing the viewer a direct experience of the depicted scene. Couples: Photographs by Stefan May, showing hitherto unpublished photographs besides others already well known in this area of his work, is published by teNeues Verlag. Another one of Stefan May’s specialties is photographic series on big cities all over the world, such as Paris, Berlin and Milan, which he publishes under his pseudonym Lance Lensfield. In these works he shows the viewer his very personal view of the cities as he discovered them on many trips with his camera. Also published by teNeues Verlag is New York: Photographs by Lance Lensfield, a portrait of the city showing both lively scenes of people and unusual perspectives of architectural structures.