Stefan Falke was born and raised in Paderborn, Germany. After abandoning his civil engineer studies he worked as a photographer's assistant in Munich and later as a silk screen printer in Hamburg. He moved to New York in 1985. Back in Germany in 1994, film studios hired him as a set photographer for movies mostly filmed in Europe and Africa.
Besides working on assignments he started photographing a long-term project about a stilt walking school in the Caribbean titled "Moko Jumbies: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad", which was exhibited at the international photo journalism festival Visa Pour L'Image in 2004 in Perpignan/France and published as a book in New York the same year (by: Pointed Leaf Press). Falke became a member of the prestigious German photo agency "laif / agentur fuer photos und reportagen" in 1999.
For his current long term project La Frontera he traveled along the entire 2000 miles long Mexican/US border to photograph artists in order to show the vibrant cultural side of a region which is portrayed by the international media with the sole focus on violent crime.
Stefan Falke again lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, since 2002.
Magazines:
Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Focus, Geo Spain, Geo Korea, PHOTO, FotoMagazin, Photographie, Cicero, TAZ, Cinema, GQ Germany, ADAC Reisemagazin, Architectural Digest, ELLE, Capital, SonntagsBlick, Cash, SportMagazin, Caribbean Travel & Life, Caribbean Beat, Booklet, La Repubblica Del Donne, Credit Suisse Bulletin, Financial Times Germany, Reader's Digest (USA), ... and many others
Film Studios:
Warner Brothers (Germany), Bavaria Film, Constantin Film, NFP Berlin, Josefine Film, UFA
Exhibitions:
The FORWARD THINKING MUSEUM 2013: "LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US Mexican Border", online
The Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C., 2012 - 2013: "LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US Mexican Border"
La Casa Del Tunel, Tijuana, Mexico, 2012: "LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US Mexican Border"
La Tentacion Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico, 2012: "New York Fake Polaroids"
Visa Pour l’Image / Perpignan 2011 - evening screening "Machine Gun Show in Kentucky"
Visa Pour l’Image / Perpignan 2008 - evening screening “Camp Hope”
Visa Pour l’Image / Perpignan 2004 - official selection festival print exhibition “Moko Jumbies”
Visa Pour l’Image / Perpignan 2003 - evening screening “Moko Jumbies”