About Me and My work
Hi My name is Oliver Hadji. I work as an art and editorial photographer based in Hamburg, Germany.
I started my career in the mid1980s and work and experience since then. I started off as an assistant for photographers in Hamburg. Among them wonderful people like Hans Hansen, Reinhardt Wolf, Michael Somoroff, Karin Petersen. After those years I moved to Paris and was working as a freelance assistant and photographer for over a year. When getting back to Hamburg I started to work frequently for great magazines like Stern, Tempo, Petra, Vogue to name a few. My main focus back then was editorioal portraits and I really loved to develop ideas for each individual shoot. Developping sets and stories around a personality, an actor, artist or people who influenced social and cultural life was a great experience and a wonderful way of meeting people. Many friendships arose from those meetings that lastet, at least some of them until today.
Recently I started to get involved in architectural and interior design photography. I create artistic images for luxury hotels and companies. My art is also shown in exhibitions thruoght Europe.
Since a part of my family lives in Istanbul I frequently spend time there and work in this wonderful vibrant city.