French photographer MAXIME BALLESTEROS came to Berlin in 2007 after studying graphic design and photography at St. Etienne’s (France). Here is a short but very good description of him by V Magazine:

“I love big engines and small boobs,” declares MAXIME BALLESTEROS, whose feral fashion photography has started motors purring for many of Berlin’s top designers, critics, and curators. The Lyon-born and Berlin-based photographer’s sharp, high-contrast photographs depict the hordes of scrappy, scruffy, and sexy young people who gravitate to international cities and form ad-hoc art communities. His images have the swagger of Larry Clark and the grit of Corrine Day, but also share the rare moments of pathos and genuine intimacy which happen when a talented insider embraced by a world of outsiders chooses to document his peers. Ballesteros’s rough aesthetic, combined with his own acutely thoughtful sensitivity, turns tender shots of critic and scholar Alix Rule wearing the Von Kottwitz necklace into fashion images in the style of Juergen Teller or Ryan McGinley“.