We photographed Appolonia Kotero in LA, Santa Monica. She is a model, singer and actress!!! She became famous with the movie "Purple Rain", in which seh played the lover of Prince. We were really glad about the fact, that we could realize a shooting with her and so we were very interested into meet her! Two days before the shooting she has personaly called us to finalize the last things. Then at the day of the shooting she came, very professional, on time and also with her own stylist which had a lot of cool outfits with him, so we had some problems to decid between all of these great outfits! Many fans know her from series like "Falcon Crest", "Miami Vice", "Knight Rider" ans "Sliders" and also form movies like "Heartbreaker", and she played in 2006 in "The Divorce Ceremony" the role of Sophia. Because of we did the make-up and hair separated and because of we needed a long time to decide for the right outfit, I started with the real shooting after two hours! But that is ok, because the pictures are just great, Appolonia as well as I really love the photos! Also as a singer she always had a great styling and her outfits were completley suitable to her songs. With the Band "Appolonia 6" she had a lot of Hits. In 1988 she published her first Soloalbum "Appolonia". Nelly and I were very happy about that we could meet Appolonia and we would really enjoy to meet her again! Maybe in the summer or then in January 2010 where we will have an exhibition in LA!! One of my next projects is very important for me, it will be in Germany/ Munich where I will photograph women with handicaps, which are although in there careers, for there own book! I would be glad if you have a look at the webpage!!
See you soon,
Yours Manfred
Photos to the Story in the german Verison!!
Apollonia Kotero fotografierten wir in LA, Santa Monica. Sie ist Fotomodel, Sängerin und Schauspielerin!!!
Weltberühmt wurde Sie durch den Film "Purple Rain", in welchem sie die Geliebte von Prince spielte.
Wir haben uns wirklich sehr gefreut, dass sie zu dem Fotoshooting zugesagt hatte und wir waren demnach sehr gespannt darauf sie kennen zu lernen.
Zwei Tage vor dem Shooting rief sie uns persönlich an, um nochmals alles zu besprechen und zu finalisieren.
Zum Shooting selbst kam sie, ganz wie der Profi, sehr pünktlich und mit Ihrem eigenen Stylisten der auch eine Menge toller Outfits mit hatte, so dass wir wirklich Probleme hatten uns für eines zu entscheiden.
Viele Fans kennen Apollonia auch aus Serien wie "Falcon Crest", "Miami Vice", "Knight Rider" sowie aus Filmen wie "Heartbreaker" oder aus dem Jahre 2006 "The Divorce Ceremony" in welchem sie die Sophia spielte.
Da wir Haare und Make-up getrennt von einander gemacht haben und uns noch für ein Outfit entscheiden mussten, konnten wir mit dem eigentlichen Shooting erst nach zwei Stunden beginnen!
Aber gut so, denn das Ergebnis kann sich sehen lassen, denn sowohl Apollonia wie auch ich sind mit dem Ergebnis mehr als zufrieden!
Bereits als Sängerin war sie immer top gestylt und Ihre Kleidung paßte immer perfekt zu ihren Songs.
Mit der Band "Apollonia 6" hatte sie mehrere Hits. 1988 veröffentlichte sie dann ihr erstes Soloalbum "Apollonia".
Nelly und ich haben uns sehr gefreut sie kennen zu lernen und hoffen auf ein baldiges Wiedersehen. Vielleicht ja schon im kommenden Sommer oder aber im Januar 2010 wo wir eine Ausstellung in LA haben werden!!!
Eines meiner nächsten Projekte liegt mir ganz besonders am Herzen, dieses findet in Deutschland / München statt.
Dort werde ich behinderte Frauen die mitten im Berufsleben stehen für ihr Buch fotografieren! Würde mich freuen wenn ihr mal einen Blick auf die Homepage werft!!!
26.Mai 2009 | 
Manfred Baumann | 
We photographed Appolonia Kotero in LA, Santa Monica. She is a model, singer and actress!!! She became famous with the movie "Purple Rain", in which seh played the lover of Prince. We were really glad about the fact, that we could realize a shooting with her and so we were very interested into meet her! Two days before the shooting she has personaly called us to finalize the last things. Then at the day of the shooting she came, very professional, on time and also with her own stylist which had a lot of cool outfits with him, so we had some problems to decid between all of these great outfits! Many fans know her from series like "Falcon Crest", "Miami Vice", "Knight Rider" ans "Sliders" and also form movies like "Heartbreaker", and she played in 2006 in "The Divorce Ceremony" the role of Sophia. Because of we did the make-up and hair separated and because of we needed a long time to decide for the right outfit, I started with the real shooting after two hours! But that is ok, because the pictures are just great, Appolonia as well as I really love the photos! Also as a singer she always had a great styling and her outfits were completley suitable to her songs. With the Band "Appolonia 6" she had a lot of Hits. In 1988 she published her first Soloalbum "Appolonia". Nelly and I were very happy about that we could meet Appolonia and we would really enjoy to meet her again! Maybe in the summer or then in January 2010 where we will have an exhibition in LA!! One of my next projects is very important for me, it will be in Germany/ Munich where I will photograph women with handicaps, which are although in there careers, for there own book! I would be glad if you have a look at the webpage!!
