biography

Between learning how to keep his breath under water in a young age and surfing the big waves in Hawaii at his 20's, Henning Nockel was always finding time to capture with his camera the greatness of the ocean as a part of it's organic structure.

Having well respected titles from Windsurfing and Kitesurfing on his back didn't stop him to keep on searching for the ultimate meaning of life mostly inspired by his trips around the globe filming movies, listening Jonny Cash, Kate Bush and Dan Sartain while shooting on the endless South African landscape who surounds Cape Town where he spends 6 months of his life every year.

"Photography for me is nothing more than fitting fantasy in the reality as we know it, using only artistic criteria..."

Fashion and lifestyle photography with the higher standards of creativity inspired from life itself. When he's not shooting, he's writing for German magazines and surfing the ocean waves...