[Stefan Klenke was born and brought up in East Berlin and lives and works now in London (UK) as photographer, journalist, camera operator and designer. He was commissioned for a number of platforms such as BBC Music Online, Rock Magazine, DJ Mag, Deutsch Magazine and Dazed&Confused Magazine]

"It's quite simple - if I find something interesting or funny I take a photo of it. I just have to. I don't know why, it was pretty much always like that.
Now my brain finds quite a few things interesting - it is a sponge sucking up the environment with all my senses and of course my camera - that's why I can't and don't want to pigeon-hole my photography.

I look up to amazing visual artists from all sorts of backgrounds like Martin Parr, Robert Doisneau and Dave LaChapelle but also to writers like Douglas Adams who were all geniuses in describing life with some incredible eye-opening sense of wit and humour.

But the biggest inspiration comes from life itself and of course music. For me there is hardly anything more powerful than shooting an amazing band live on stage - it's electric and in those moments I am lost in time.
I know I'll never be able to travel in time but photography gives me the power to stop and even bend it!"