Tokio Hotel's frontman Bill Kaulitz joins Rock legend Alice Cooper to support Saturn, an electrical appliance retailer, and was shot by Tino Pohlmann in a Hollywood studio in Los Angeles. The 21-year-old Bill and his band became famous in 2005 and have been celebrating impressive international success ever since. The band have won an astonishing 58 platinum and 88 gold discs, and have received a record-breaking 89 national and international awards.

This time we staged the 2011 canyon roadbikes in Belgium. Hot spots included the Mur de Huy and the Côte de la Redoute, as well as the Zolder race circuit. Our most famous model was once again Erik Zabel who often made us hold our breath during his special cycling manoeuvre.
The catalogue will be published in a few days; a sample will be included in this blog.

For the opening in Hamburg of North Germany's most modern sport megastore, we produced four themes covering fitness, football, running and outdoor sports. The campaign, entitled 'your heart beats faster', shows that sport is more than just physical exercise. Sport is passion, devotion and enthusiasm. The observer will recognise themselves in the themes and be emotionally gripped.

...some more impressions of my last trip to L.A. in August 2010.

On the fringes of the Saturn commercial production in Los Angeles in August i met Randy and Mickey - two very caring guys and i`ve  asked careful for some pictures...  

True to the motto "amplify your senses", Tino shot the new global campaign of the German bicycle component manufacturer Ergon. It is the campaign's aim to establish a stronger image of Ergon's products for the American market by using an emotional visual concept.

A prologue and 20 stages, cover a total distance of 3642km in three weeks. We cover the Tour de France this year mainly for the Belgium National Loterie and for the german bike manufacturer Canyon. The first stages was very painful, the track was incredible difficult to ride. A lot of chrashes accompanied us on the first stages. Please take a look in the preview-selection of this great race.  

In the end of June, we went to a little island in the mediterranean sea close to Sicily. There we produced some art work for a very special client. the final work are get to see only in the personal rooms of the client. you`re invited to take a look on my personal selection!

Germans football legends such Horst Eckel, Sepp Maier, Mario Basler, Andreas Brehme, Karl Heinz Riedle, Hansi Müller,  challenged Germany’s handymen in a inimitably soccermatch. The masters of handicrafts met the masters of the ball on a level playing field, that’s the creative leitmotif of the campaign for Mercedes Benz Transporter. Tino attend the DFB Allstars and the masters of handicrafts during the whole tournement around germany.

World premier. Solestar - the carbon cycling insole for better torque. Tino shot Gerald at Studio K3 in Berlin for the market launch of solestar. Agency: Fienbork-Elsenbach, Creative Director: Nicole Elsenbach, Consulting: Florian Haver, Postproduction: Tino Pohlmann, Assistent: Noel Faeskorn, Hair and Makeup: Heike Leska

Tino join the Production for the Loewe TV-Spot "Swan Lake" in Berlin. You can see the spot here.

The Lotto cycling team just ended its 25th season in a row. This event should not go by uncelebrated. In fact, not many sponsors survive that long in the cycling world. In addition, the Lotto cycling team became an important player in the international elite peloton. Two of the team’s cyclist provided the icing on the cake for Lotto. Cadel Evans won the world title and Philippe Gilbert obtained several victories.

The initiative 'Sportstandort Deutschland' (Germany as a location for sport) joined up with the National Anti-Doping Agency to start a prevention campaign to fight doping in German sport. It is the aim of Scholz & Friends Berlin to raise awareness not only among professional and emerging athletes but also the entire population regarding the negative consequences of doping.

On 10th March the jurors - Eva Maria Möhwald-Hufnagel (Designer), Christian Brändle (Curator, Museum of Design Zurich) and Walter Keller (Co-founder of Museum Winterthur, Swizerland, Author and gallery owner) announced the first ever winners of the 'Where Champions meet Talents Award'. Tino received the silver award for his piece, 'The Header', with the ceremony being part of the gala dinner for BNP Paribas Zurich Open in Zurich.

The theme of the BNP Paribas Zurich Open "Where Champions meet Talents" is continued in the photography exhibition "On the Move". On display are 18 never shown portraits by Michael Comte, with 14 photos by mostly young top photographers who took part in the photo competition "Sports and Movement". The exciting dialogue between the portraits of the international sportspersons and the works by upcoming talents from Germany and Switzerland has turned into an extraordinary visual pleasure that one shouldn't miss.

The legendary players of German football challenged Germany’s handymen recently. Tino, as one of four photographers, shot football stars such Mario Basler, Andreas Brehme, Horst Eckel, and Sepp Maier for the Mercedes-Benz campaign. As part of this campaign, presented in Berlin on 16 February 2010, agency Scholz & Friends Berlin entered the all-star team to play against a team made up of selected handicraft businesses.

One of the world's greatest cyclists completed his last race in January 2009: Erik Zabel. For the one year anniversary of Zabel's last race, Tino is showing a series of behind-the-scenes shots. Tino shadowed Erik Zabel for the whole Six Days of Berlin tournament. Canyon Bicycles sponsored the production. The race was spectacular.

This series shows a selection of photographs that i took during a trip to Los  Angeles in September `09. During these days i fell in and out of love with  LA and its culture. There were moments the city felt very large and strange then sometimes it felt very small and serious.

from 15th january until 18th january 2010 tino shows nine of his works at the Zurich photo 09 exhibition. The group exhibition shows essentially swiss -and european contemporary photography. The vernissage is on wednesday 14th January, 6:30 pm. You`re welcome!