Oliver Kendl: Head of Marketing & Digitalisation, photographer, author

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Photography

People & Product.

Twenty years, half a camera universe and 28 galleries. People, instruments, brands. Usually with too much gear in the boot.

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AI & Digital

Ideas, finally built.

Working with AI since 2022: games, websites, software, avatars, automations and songs. With Claude on the team since 2026.

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Marketing

Attention is the currency.

Digital strategy, e-commerce, brand management and process automation at Schagerl Music. So that great instruments don't just sound good but also get found.

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Stories

One novel. Many stories.

LOGENSITZ, my novel about the generation in between. And a journal with the stories that happened behind the pictures.

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About

Professionally curious.

Portrait of Oliver Kendl
For once on the wrong side of the camera.

I'm Oliver, authorised officer and Head of Marketing & Digitalisation at Schagerl Music. I've stayed a photographer all the same. At work, whenever a new instrument is finished, and privately, whenever someone holds still.

My day job is digital strategy and e-commerce, brand management and process automation. In other words: making sure great instruments get found, understood and bought, and that as little as possible has to be done by hand behind the scenes. On the side I'm writing a novel that is currently getting its second pass.

Since 2011 I've carried almost always the same small camera, although I've owned pretty much every other one in between. I even bought one medium-format system twice, which you can read as loyalty or as a case for therapy.

I always had more ideas than I could build. So since 2022 I've been working with AI, from ChatGPT to ElevenLabs, Suno and Higgsfield, and have used it to build games, websites, software, avatars, automations and songs. Claude joined in 2026, and frankly that's the cherry on the cake.

What connects all of this? I like telling stories. With light, with code, with campaigns and with words. Sometimes all on the same day.
Base
Lower Austria
Profession
Authorised officer, Head of Marketing & Digitalisation at Schagerl Music
Focus
Digital strategy & e-commerce, brand management, process automation
Photography
For more than 20 years. 28 galleries.
In the bag
Fujifilm X100. In 99 out of 100 cases.
Weakness
Buying cameras. And selling them again.
In progress
LOGENSITZ, a novel
With AI since
2022. Claude joined in 2026.
Contact

Let's
talk.

You have a question, an idea, or want to talk about photography, AI, marketing or the book without anyone needing to be afraid: write to me.

I usually reply within 24 hours. Unless I'm in the studio, then it takes a little longer.

Instagram @farbenkueche
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/oliverkendl