Spare yourself - Studio Manager Christian Oth Studio Employee Review

Meeting amazing people and visiting places you couldn't visit otherwise, can be a great experience. In my opinion, Christian has a fantastic persona and is interested in you personally, he cares about his employees and the complaints are usually misunderstandings.

Considering I am learning decades of experience, I have little to complain about. Christian worked hard to reach his current position, and he expects the same from his employees.

Met some great people in the photo industry. Most, though, were either freelancers or that photographers currently or previously part of the studio

In studio environment is filled with negativity, incompetence and constant degradation. There is no diversity other than white women within the entire company, and that includes freelancers, make up artists, photographer, even barley any clients. Christian is inclined to hire fresh graduates or less knowledgeable of the industry people so then he can tell them they are not worth of their asked pay and constantly compare them to people that used to work there previously (that clearly do not work with him anymore, some don’t ever want to work with him anymore, while others are weary of speaking up as his name is known in the industry). He has mood swings and belittles people working for him when he does, which then transfers to the people working for the company…that simply causes an extremely negative work environment, filled with cattiness, smack talking about each other via slack, and putting blame on each other. Working there made me question ever wanting to be in the industry in the first part and I have been doing this for 10+ years. After leaving I got a job with almost double the pay for half the work. This place was all frosting and molded cake underneath