VDM Metals, a manufacturer of high-performance materials, i.e., nickel alloys and special stainless steels, from Germany, commissioned WOLFRAM SCHROLL to photograph its latest magazine from May 2024.
Photographer Wolfram Schroll, specialized in industrial and corporate topics, has been booked again and again by VDM for the company’s corporate photography for 10 years. VDM Metals, part of the Acerinox Group, produces highly complex steel alloys for use, e.g., in aerospace in multiple production centers, as the company refers to them, throughout Germany.
“Melt a little steel really quick? Fat chance!” says Wolfram Schroll. “I’ve seen it done umpteen times in many different ways, and it is a long and complex process if you want to make high-quality modern steel. In my photographs, I try to bring out this complexity and fascination for steel.”
About WOLFRAM SCHROLL
Lube oil rather than hair spray, blue collar rather than haute couture, preferably the smell of steel to the waft of perfume. No models, no cool locations, just raw reality. I love my work - industrial photography. And I love the noise and the heat, the weirdness of the production lines, sometimes all a bit menacing. The people, salt of the earth, uncomplicated. And the permanent challenge of getting photos out of the dark production halls and complex machinery, photos that deserve the word picture. On behalf of customers, taking photos of machines that look as expensive as they actually are. Here at this website, you can sample of my latest work from the worlds of steel, paper, machine construction and medical technology....and of the people who work there.
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