Billy & Hells are actually two photographers: Anke Linz and Andreas Oettinger.

They met in 1986, were in love with photography and started to work together

and made their first pictures in a studio in Munich. Inspired by the photos

of Diane Arbus, Irvin Penn and Richard Avedon, Billy & Hells started working

as two professional photographers in the field of fashion photography for

advertisement and magazines.

They developped their own Baryt-like technique now known as a Lithprint.

A combination of black and white and color slides and negatives emerges in

beautiful and special photos with reduced colors and intense effects.

People taken out of their everyday environments, depicted and documented in

diffuse light With no complicated camera angles is the formula for Billy & Hells

concept.

In 2000 they left for Berlin to live and work. A few years later, they started to

present their photos in collective exhibitions and solo shows in Berlin, Utrecht,

Amsterdam, London, Tokyo and other cities.