atelier 27 GmbH

What atelier 27 GmbH does

atelier 27 GmbH is a privately held professional advertising photography studio headquartered in Tübingen, Germany, with additional studio facilities in Pfullingen. Founded in 2001 and operating continuously since, the company serves business clients across the Stuttgart-Tübingen-Reutlingen-Pfullingen corridor and has delivered projects internationally in Wellington and Dubai. The studio is led by Managing Director Tobias Störkle and operates with a small team of 8 employees.

The studio's offering spans six core service categories: portrait photography (business and private clients), architecture and interior photography, industrial and catalogue photography, automotive and motorsport photography, multi-row panorama photography, and still life photography (food, sculpture, products). Technical capabilities include both Hasselblad 6x6 medium format film capture and digital workflows, three independent shooting stations with central data storage, and advanced lighting techniques spanning available-light, multi-source LED/flash, and panorama stitching. The studio's central craft tenet is capturing the final image in-camera to minimise post-processing and accelerate project timelines for advertising clients.

Commercially, atelier 27 operates a sales-led, project-based commissioning model. Clients initiate engagements via direct email or phone contact; the studio quotes per project based on scope, location, and usage rights, then delivers final imagery through digital file transfer. There is no public pricing, no recurring subscription, and no third-party distribution channel. Customer segments include automotive and motorsport (Porsche, ADAC GT Masters, Dutt Motorsport), architecture and government (Hochbauamt Stadt Tübingen, DeTeImmobilien), industrial catalogue clients, artists, musicians, and private portrait clients. Marketing relies on the company website portfolio, direct outreach, and local professional referrals rather than paid acquisition or social media.

Name

atelier 27 GmbH

Legal name

atelier 27 GmbH

Website

https://atelier27.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

atelier 27 GmbH is a professional advertising photography studio in Tübingen, Germany (founded 2001), offering portrait, architecture, industrial, automotive, panorama, and still life photography to business clients across the Stuttgart-Tübingen region and internationally on a project basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Photography Services

NAICS

Photographic Services (54192)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHSACAHAI

Creative Talent Booking (Photographers, Videographers, Content Creators)

Home & Personal Services/Event & Personal Concierge Services/Entertainment Booking & Talent Management

Keywords

• Commercial photography services
• Advertising photography
• Studio photography
• Portrait photography
• Industrial catalog photography

Headquarters

HQ city

Tübingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commercial Photography Services: Project-based photography commissions for advertising, print media, calendars, catalogues, and corporate materials. Revenue generated through client commissions for image creation, with usage rights licensing included or negotiated per project.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

atelier 27 GmbH is a professional photography studio that produces advertising and commercial imagery on commission. It offers six core photography disciplines — portrait, architecture, industrial/catalogue, automotive/motorsport, panorama, and still life — delivered both in-studio in Pfullingen and on-location across the Stuttgart-Tübingen region. The studio emphasises in-camera technical excellence to minimise post-processing, with three independent shooting stations and centralised data storage for client access.

Product overview

atelier 27 GmbH is a professional photography studio offering a comprehensive range of photography services. The company provides six core service categories: Portrait Photography (for business and private clients), Architecture Photography (interior and exterior), Industrial Photography (catalog and series work), Automotive Photography (motorsport and vehicles), Panorama Photography (wide-angle and 360-degree), and Stills Photography (food, sculptures, products). Services are conducted both on-location and in their studio facilities in Pfullingen, with emphasis on minimizing post-processing through skilled photographic execution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portrait Photography

Quantifiable outcome

• The studio emphasises that better in-camera capture reduces post-processing time, accelerating advertising project timelines and reducing costs.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• FOGRA (Forschungsgesellschaft Druck e.V.)minorOthersFOGRA is a printing research association that supports quality assurance in printed media. atelier 27 references FOGRA on its links page as the standard body most of its clients rely on for printed advertising materials. The reference signals the studio's commitment to print-quality photography standards.
• ADF (Arbeitskreis digitale Fotografie)minorOthersThe ADF (Working Group for Digital Photography) promotes digital photography and digital image processing. atelier 27 links to ADF as a professional resource for technical photography knowledge, indicating alignment with industry best practices.
• Dutt MotorsportminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDutt Motorsport is a motorsport client and enthusiast customer of atelier 27. The studio describes Dutt Motorsport as a particularly demanding, creative, and enjoyable client, suggesting an ongoing creative working relationship in the motorsport photography space.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• EyeEm: Berlin-based mobile photography community and stock marketplace with an emerging AI/brand-collaboration offering. Operates in the same DACH creative photography ecosystem and competes for emerging brand and SMB image-buyers that might otherwise commission a studio.
• Westlight by Westend61: Curated stock and assignment photography platform specializing in lifestyle, architecture, and still life imagery. Overlaps with atelier 27's still life, food, and architecture segments at the brand-licensing layer rather than the bespoke-commission layer.

Broad incumbents

• Getty Images: Global commercial photography licensing platform operating a vast editorial and commercial image library. Adjacent rather than directly competitive: serves recurring image-licensing needs, whereas atelier 27 sells bespoke commissions, but competes for the same client advertising budgets.
• Shutterstock: Global stock photography, footage, and music marketplace serving marketing teams and agencies. Competes for parts of the commercial image budget but operates at scale via a marketplace model, contrasting with atelier 27's bespoke commission model.

Direct peers

• Jim Rakete: German portrait and celebrity photographer with a long-tenure practice serving editorial, music, and corporate clients. Direct overlap with atelier 27's Business & Personal Portrait segment and music industry commissions (e.g., CD cover work).
• Veit Cornelli: Austrian/German automotive and advertising photographer with a comparable multi-discipline commercial practice (automotive, industry, portrait). Closely comparable on the Automotive & Motorsport and Industry & Catalogue segments.
• Patrick Ludolph: German automotive photographer serving OEMs, motorsport events, and classic-car publishers. Direct overlap with atelier 27's automotive action photography (Hockenheimring/Nürburgring-style track commissions) and OEM promotional work.
• Hiepler & Brunier: German architecture and interior photography studio with a comparable boutique structure, specializing in architectural commissions for designers, developers, and museums. Directly competes with atelier 27 in the Architecture & Real Estate segment across Germany.

Others

• FOGRA (Forschungsgesellschaft Druck e.V.): German printing research association that sets color management and print-production standards referenced by atelier 27's client deliverables. Ecosystem participant rather than a competitor — useful as an institutional reference for the studio's print-quality positioning.

Regional players

• Manfred Baumann: Austrian commercial photographer specializing in portrait, automotive, and corporate work for international brands. Comparable craft-driven, multi-discipline commercial practice; primarily serves DACH-region clients from Austria rather than competing head-to-head in the Stuttgart-Tübingen corridor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/atelier-27-gmbh

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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