About

I didn’t start with AI.
I started with the image.

Dom Quichotte — photographer, retoucher, creative director. Berlin.

Follow my path

Every step added a tool.
The eye stayed the same.

Photography

Portrait of Kai Baum surrounded by hands holding power tools, smoke rising from his head
Client: Kai Baum | Universal Music

What goes in the frame — and what stays out.

Twenty years of fashion and advertising in Berlin and Los Angeles, for brands like Mercedes-Benz and Zalando.

Retouching

Gucci 1921 perfume bottle in moss, final retouched image with deep green light and mist
The same shot straight out of camera, before retouching
BeforeAfter

Then, what happens after the shutter.

Colour grading, invented light, composites built in layers — long before AI.

Production

Client: Oceans Apart

Then, making it repeatable.

Crews, sets, whole collections per season. How quality survives when the volume goes up.

Generative AI

Studio photograph of a dancer, expanded with AI into new worlds
Shot in camera

The tools changed. The eye didn’t.

Not a new career — everything before it, at once. And it reaches past the photograph.

Your turn

Enough about me.
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