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Max Loewenstein.
Max Loew · travel & automotive photographer and filmmaker
Max Loew, also known as Max Loewenstein, is a travel and automotive photographer and filmmaker based in California’s Bay Area. He shoots on assignment for brands including Hyundai, Hyatt, Jaguar, and Xbox, and he has been working in photography since 2016. His work has been recognized by Adorama and Microsoft.
I photograph cars, places, and the road that connects them.
I picked up photography on my iPhone in 2016. I just wanted to remember what places felt like, and I was pretty hooked before I ever bought a real camera. That happened in 2017. Almost ten years later I am still chasing the same thing I was chasing on the phone: good light, and the feeling of actually being somewhere. Golden hour that hangs around longer than it should. Fog on a coast road early in the morning. A spot before anyone else has shown up to it.
It starts in the field. I would rather get the light and the moment right in person than try to build them later, so I work with the conditions instead of forcing it and I will wait around a long time for the right one. Then I grade it the way I see it, warm and a little cinematic. That look is something I have spent years dialing in. Cars and travel are what I keep coming back to, probably because both are really about being somewhere and moving through it.
I am based in the Bay Area but on the road most of the year, and my golden retriever Atlas comes with me whenever he can. Honestly some of my favorite shots are from days that were not planned at all, somewhere off the route, when the light just showed up and we were already standing there.
Adorama Landscape Photographer of the Year, 2019. Microsoft Original by Design, 2021.
In the field
Drag
Recognition
236K
followers across Instagram, TikTok & Threads
- Microsoft · Original by Design Art Competition2021
- Adorama · Landscape Photographer of the Year2019
Selected clients
- Hyundai
- Toyota
- Ford
- Mazda
- Jaguar
- Hyatt
- Chatwal Lodge
- Egypt Tourism
- Los Cabos
- Azores
- Colorado Tourism
- Lompoc
- Thursday Boots
- Columbia
- Nothing New
- Bollé
- Cross Helmet
- Xbox
- Adorama
- Printique
- TripIt
Field range
USA · Canada · Japan · South Korea · Iceland · Switzerland · Austria · Italy · Ireland · United Kingdom · Costa Rica · Mexico · Egypt · Portugal
Common questions
- Who is Max Loew?
- Max Loew is a travel and automotive photographer and filmmaker based in California's Bay Area. He shoots on assignment for automotive, travel, and hospitality brands, among them Hyundai, Jaguar, Ford, Hyatt, and Xbox. He picked up photography on his phone in 2016 and bought his first camera in 2017.
- Is Max Loewenstein the same person as Max Loew?
- Yes, they are the same photographer. Max Loew is the name the work is published under. The name also turns up spelled Max Lowenstein and Max Löw, and all of them mean this site.
- Where is Max Loew based, and where does he shoot?
- He is based in the Bay Area in California and on the road most of the year. Assignments have taken him across the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Iceland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Mexico, Egypt, and Portugal.
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