Volker Steger is a freelance science photographer based in Munich.
Clients are popular science magazines and a number of companies and research organisations. Lately Steger is also active in more mainstream media and exhibitions, in order to bring the look and feel of science imagery to a broader public.
He, naively, still beleives that science is the best way we have to understand the world. And he hopes that good science photography can make it look just as cool as it is!
since 1995: Freelance science photography
2000 – 2001: Knight Fellow for Science Journalism at MIT in Cambridge/Massachusetts
1997: Member of the Science Photo Library in London/UK
1988 – 89: Work with Manfred Kage, a leading photomicrographer
1987: Photojournalistic work with Willy Pragher, a Bauhaus-trained photographer
Editorial clients include:
Discover Magazine (USA), Harper's (USA), bild der wissenschaft (D), FOCUS (I), Illustreret Videnskap (DK,SE,FIN,NL), Illustrated Science (USA), Muy Interessante (ES, Latin America), Lufthansa Magazine, Ca m'intérésse (F) , La Recherche (F), Bild (D), Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (D), SZ Wissen (D), ZEIT Wissen (D),
Corporate clients: Siemens, Fraunhofer Society, Max Planck Society, Bayer, Baxter and various smaller technology companie
1992 – 95: Photo editor of Germany's most popular science magazine, bild der wissenschaft .
1987: Photo editing at Peter Arnold stock photo agancy in New York
2006: Nobel Drawings: Conceptual photography project with Nobel laureates.
2004: First full-body MR scans of sports personalities for Bild (a German tabloid) and Siemens
2001: Project to print 3D microscopic data at MIT
1999: Action shots of insects eating each other with a scanning electron microscope for Discover Managine (USA)
1998: First 3D electron microscopic image on a magazine cover in Europe.
2007: LEAD AWARD, still-life photograph of the year
2000: Knight Fellow for science journalism at MIT
2000: Visuell award of the German Press for science photography
1996: Leica Award for science photography
1989-1992: Biology studies at Tübingen University (BA)