HAMBURG, GERMANY.-Flo Peters Gallery presents Robert Lebeck Life's Work, on view through June 16, 2007. On May 11th, the internationally renowned photographer Robert Lebeck received the Henri Nannen Prize, awarded by Gruner & Jahr and Stern magazine, for his life's work. In honor of his achievements, the Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, is showing a selection of 120 photographs taken between 1955 and 2000.

When Lebeck, born in 1929, was given a Retina 1A camera to his 23. birthday, he instantly began searching for motives. According to him, the camera's instruction manual was the only photographic education he received. Ten years later Lebeck was part of the elite of international photojournalism.

In 1952, he published his first pictures in the "Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung". He then spent thirty years working for the Stern as a photojournalist, significantly influencing the magazine's visual handwriting. When asked to comment on his talent and success, Lebeck simply likes to call himself "outrageously lucky". This phrase ("Unverschämtes Glück") also served as the title for his first publication of color photographs taken between 1960-2000.

The secrets of his success were calmness, perseverance, precision, discipline and the ability to do the right thing at the right time. Robert Lebeck likes to search for truth, has always been "curious of world" ("Neugierig auf Welt"), so also the title of his biography. He says he always worked without any extras, technical gimmicks or special lenses. Still, his "direct" photography is the result of a journalist's instinct combined with an artist's aesthetic composition. In this fashion, Lebeck repeatedly produced images that became symbols of their time.