IPA Group underlines its proximity and interest in art by commissioning three portaits of its managers to photographer Wolfgang Wesener (Wowe).

Wowe was born in Cologne, Germany in 1960. He began studying communications design at the Folkwang school in Essen, in 1981, where portrait photography was his primary interest. He moved to New York four years later, where he started documenting New York's nightlife with its many personalities from an insider's perspective. In 1986 he commenced a longterm collaboration with Faz Magazine edited by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Wowe has lived in Northern Italy since 1990, where he continues to shoot photos for international magazines, while simultaneously pursuing his own projects.

 

Selected exhibitions:

photographie galerie, Düsseldorf (1984); vera engelhorn gallery, New York (1990, 1994 e 1996); c/o berlin, Berlin (2003); c/o berlin, Berlin (2008).

 

Some people portraited by Wowe:

giorgio armani, bono, willy brandt, james brown, pierre cardin, miles davis, robert deniro, federico fellini, norman foster, john lee hooker, hugh johnson, philip johnson, grace jones, vaclav klaus, spike lee, annie leibovitz, madonna, liza minnelli, luca di montezemolo, nanni moretti, jack nicklaus, david ogilvy, sergio pininfarina, wynton marsalis, miuccia prada, ronaldo, run dmc, michael schumacher, brooke shields, karlheinz stockhausen, edward teller, oliviero toscani, valentino, suzanne vega, gianni versace, gore vidal, andy warhol, bruce willis, frank zappa, etc.

 

For more info wowe.it