Marco Stirn, award-winning art photographer, has been working in a 300m² loft since 1998, which is reminiscent of the first photographer's studios in Paris. The 80-year-old wooden beams and the high ridge glazing give the studio a particularly cozy atmosphere. Since then, he has been organizing and photographing with the mission of making people and viewers happier. Aesthetic quality and uniqueness are his trademarks and he photographs passionately and conceives complete visual worlds.

His fotostudio9 is a permanent fixture for professional work for companies and events in Wiesbaden, the surrounding area and far beyond, and yet he has always retained his fine sense of genuine art. He processes his “Stare” series in modern formats such as printing on Aludibond, but also in a very traditional way, using painstaking craftsmanship on baryta paper with hand-cut passe-partouts and carefully selected frames.
His life was shaped by a year spent in Aix-en-Provence/France (1989), where the extraordinary light inspired him to take photographs. He later spent a year traveling through Brazil in an old VW Beetle. The joy of life and the colorful art of the Afro-Brazilian population allowed him and his photography to blossom completely.