1994-1999 Diplom-Kommunikationsdesigner (Photography and Art Direction), University for Applied Science, Würzburg, Germany

Awards

2006 ADDY Awards(interactive design)
2005 CIBA10 Award (interactive design)
2010 DTC Advertising Awards

Inspired by the grandeur and grime of New York City, Joergen Geerds branched into panoramic photography in 2006.
Prior to finding his calling in panoramas, Geerds studied photography and design under Ernst Weckert and Nicolai Sarafov in Würzburg, Germany. He moved to the City in 2000—he had simply outgrown his hometown—and worked for several successful years as an art director in the advertising world.
During this time, he refined his love of wide-angle photography and ventured into the world of panoramas. He found the un-cropped cityscapes that his flattened, 360-degree photos revealed were unique in the market. This led him to develop his own distinct style—large-scale, hyper-wide night panoramas of New York City.
Geerds’s photos illuminate places familiar to many, both on the macro and micro scales. But these photos also make viewers think about how and where they were taken, and deeply consider what it is about these at-first familiar haunts that so captures our attention.
After showing his work in several art shows in Brooklyn, Geerds did not go unnoticed. Since 2008, he has been represented by 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in Chelsea, NY.
Geerds also documents his ongoing panorama work on his blog at newyorkpanorama.com. His dedicated fine art photography can be found at luminous-newyork.com.
Geerds maintains a lively dialogue with fellow artists and photographers across the globe, and he loves to stay at the very front of photography and technological progress in general. His recent interests are 360 video panoramas.

Select Exhibitions:

2013- 2014  TJ Wilcox: In The Air: panoramic video installation at the Whitney Museum NYC (collaboration with the Artist to create largest 360 time lapse in the world)
2012 Art Wynwood , 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY USA
2012, The Other Side (solo show),532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2011-2012 GSB Art on Loan group show, New York, NY, USA
2011 Aqua Art, Miami ,532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY USA
2011 Lumin-o-City (solo show), Pousada de Palmela, Palmela, Portugal
2010 Aqua Art, Miami ,532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel Miami, FL, USA
2008 Winter Group Show “Boson Exotic”, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ, USA
2008 Incandescent, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY, USA
2008 BRiDGE as iCON Group Show, Tabla Rasa Gallery Brooklyn, NY, USA
2008 Photographers of BWAC, Kingsborough College, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2008 BWAC Spring Group Show, Redhook, Brooklyn, NY, USA (served also as show chair)
2007 Points of View, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007 BWAC Fall Group Show, Redhook, Brooklyn, NY, USA (served also as show co-chair)
1996 The History of Jazz (digital illustration in collaboration with Nicolai Sarafov), Hugendubel, München, Germany
1995 Industrial Photography, permanent collection of the Landesgewerbeanstalt, Würzburg, Germany

Conference Talks
Tokyo 2013, Denjuko Conference, 360 Video panoramas
Selfoss 2013, International Panorama Photography Conference: 360 Video Panorama application
NYC 2012, International Panorama Photography Conference
Palmela 2011, International Panorama Photography Conference: Panorama Photography and the fine art market