About

This is the web site of Juergen Specht,
a German photographer living in Tokyo, Japan.

Background

In 1979 (I was small) somebody lent me a Nikon F3 SLR camera
and I was instantly hooked.

1979 is a long time ago and I spent my time being a Administrator, Animator, Barkeeper, Boyfriend, Catwalk Model, Chief Technology Officer, Clerk, Club Manager, Comic Publisher, Company Founder, Consultant, Driver, Electronics Specialist, Fashion Designer, General Manager, Inventor, Light Mixer, Manager, Musician, Organizer, Party Hacker, Plumber, Programmer, Repairman, Roadie,
Robot Technician, Sailor, Salesman, Soundmixer, Special Effects Creator, Stage Hand, Supervisor, System Administrator, Teacher, Technician, Theater Technician, Tour Guide, Tourist, Trucker, Video Cutter, Web Designer, Webmaster and much more... but my camera was always my companion and my photos ended up in magazines, in newspapers, web sites, as record and CD covers, posters, postcards, advertisements, flyer, etc.

In 1999 I moved permanently to Japan and photography became even a more important part of my life.
Finally in 2004 I gave up all my other ventures to concentrate on my photographic career only, but I cannot stop me from multitasking and in 2005 I founded the OpenRAW project.

If you look for a photographer in Tokyo, Japan please check my Services.

About this web site

This web site is designed to be very clean and user friendly and fulfills several functions:

It entertains when you have time to burn.
It shows some of my photographs in a shameless approach of self promotion.
It gives you a choice if you are a publication looking for photos about (mostly) Japan.
It gives you the address of a photographer who can probably work for you.

The site is based on a clear separation of content and presentation, using web standards like XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, Unicode and is designed by Bernd Willenberg - eypix mediadesign. The programming was done by myself.

And a special thanks goes to...

Ako-chan, my wife for translations and her endless patience while I was working on this site.
Bernd Willenberg for the fantastic design.
Megumi for the cool animation on this page.
Thomas O'Dowd for help with administration and database issues.
All my great models, make-up artists, assistants and clients. And to everybody who enjoys this site.

Thanks!

Imprint

Responsible for this site is:
Juergen Specht
2-9-11-302
Kamisaginomiya
Nakano-ku
Tokyo 165-0031
Japan
Tel/Fax: +81-(0)3-3998-5912
Email: info-20081007@juergenspecht.com