200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide 2012/2013 (200 Best Ad Photographers worldwide, 2012/2013)

The long wait is over: for the fifth time, Luerzer's Archive has been looking for the 200 Best Talents among photographers from all over the world. The 200 BEST Photographers, which comprises 416 pages and reaches art directors, art buyers and copywriters in agencies around the world, is not only a major source of inspiration but has also become a valuable art-buying tool. "As a photographer it is great to be associated with Luerzers Archive, to help unblock creative block, to feature in the editorial, to advertise in the magazine and it is an honour to be selected to feature on the cover of such a prestigious magazine". Tim Flach, Photographer All work is classified by easy-to-navigate categories, providing creatives in advertising agencies - as well as general photography enthusiasts - with an outstanding overview of the best work currently being done in this field. With the first two volumes having sold out within a very short space of time, we increased the print-run from the third edition to 30,000, and this figure has been maintained for the latest edition. This year's categories were: Animals Architecture Automotive Beauty & Nudes Children Fashion Food & Drink Interiors Landscape Life Objects People Portraits Sports Still Life All in all, 860 photographers from 56 different countries all over the world - which in this year even included Afghanistan and Puerto Rico - sent in their images, making a total of 502 masterpieces that were admitted into the 200 Best Photographers worldwide 2012/2013.