André Elbing

André Elbing born 1965 in Germany - Cologne, became interested in Oriental dance in 1989 when he started organizing and producing shows with his long time friend, Shahrazad. As he began taking photographs at some of the shows his business grew into an extensive collection of photographs of oriental dancers - about 1.500.000 photos in all. He devoted the last 23 years of his career to oriental dance photography and has worked with the great stars of the oriental dance world, past and present. He has been published in several oriental dance Magazines , you find his Photos on hundreds of Bellydance Internet pages and also on CD & DVD Covers, Books and so on. He specializes in photographing live performances, yet he has the ability to bring the harmony and magic of the performance into a studio photo session Exhibitions in Albuquerque, N.Y., L A, San Francisco, Katmandu, Berlin, Rostock, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Frankfurt, etc. are proof of the international interest in this art.