Fields of work

Equine Photography Clinics

You can book Christiane Slawik for a Photo-Clinic! She will share her immense experience and knowledge with a lot of patience and passion for photography, people and horses. No matter if you are a beginner or a semi-professional: When participants learn about Christiane professional tricks and ideas, all of them will increase their ability to catch the “magic moment” and everybody will become better in creating perfect horsepictures.

After a photo-clinic weekend with Christiane, you will look thought your camera with different eyes and watch horses in a different way. You will start with serious equine photography.

Journalism

Monthly new, internationally ordered and published work and home productions:
Portraits of breeds, stories of personalities, reports on horses and horse journeys, portraits of stud farms investigated excellently, written technically experienced and infectiously including unusual, atmospherically rich Photo material.

Reports from:
Egypt, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Holland, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Canada, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, Czechia, Tunisia, Hungary and the USA.

The author’s richly illustrated reference-books:

• Author of the first reference book about Irish Cobs:
  “Tinker ponies – Ireland's Cool Dappled horses”
  (Cadmos publishing house: ISBN 3-86127-352-7)
• “Heavy guys - the comeback of the heavy draft horse”
  (Cadmos publishing house: ISBN 3-86127-383-7)
• mit Chris Olson:
  “Solving Muscular Tensions in Horses.
  Pressurepoint-system and relation-training”
  (Cadmos publishing house ISBN 3-86127-520-1)

Photography

Besides her own books Christiane Slawik has illustrated about another 100 reference books (Bea Borelle, Bent Branderup, Alfons Dietz, Ruth Giffels, Richard Hinrichs, George Maschalani, Nathalie Penquitt, Gudrun Waiditschka, Heinz Welz, etc.). She works for about 40 international companies, publishing houses and magazines with most modern analogous and digital Canon professional equipment:

• Canon Mark III Ds
• Most used objectives: 400mm 2.8, 300 mm of 2.8, 80-200 2.8, far angles
• Flash equipment: Canon Speedlight 580EX + Metz
• Digital photos can be immediately examined with Macintosh iBook
• Post-editing with Adobe Photoshop CS2

Photos are used for:

• Calendars
• Magazines
• Publishing houses
• Advertising
• Leaflets
• Posters
• Breeding ads

Moderating

Christiane Slawik does not only work behind the camera but in the past has been active in front of the camera, too. The experience of over 12 years in regional television with live-moderating of the daily news and travelling reports, talk-, and game-shows combined with her sound and specialized knowledge guarantee a charming, eloquent and informative presentation of great international horse gala-shows and horse events.