Andreas Heumann

Andreas Heumann (born 1946 in Munich) is a photographer and painter. Heumann was raised in Switzerland. After leaving school, he began a four-year apprenticeship in Bern to study block-making and printing. He began his career in photography in London via short stints in Paris and New York. His early work was influenced by photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Avedon, André Kertész, Weston, Edward Steichen and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Once in London, he started to do reportage and fashion photography working on assignments for magazines such as Stern, Vogue, Twen, Harper's Magazine and many others. Since then he has worked on over twelve hundred advertising campaigns, both national and international. Heumann said during an interview in Techniques of Masters: "A bad picture will always be a bad picture, no technique will save or improve it.

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