Career
During his working career, Schiller worked with supermodels Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour and many more. Schiller did print campaigns for most European fashion houses and fashion magazines, and he also did campaigns for clients such as Revlon, Georg Jensen, Budweiser, Magasin du Nord, Faxe Beer, V6 and Ecco Shoes. Schiller also did Europe"s most expensive print campaign for Hennessy Cognac at the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy - the total cost of a one day"s photoshoot was $2.000.000.
In 1967, after running the studios simultaneously in New York and Copenhagen, Leif Schiller founded Schiller & Company
Facility House, hosting more than 30 independent and creatively individual companies with photography as the main theme. The companies include Q-lab, Schiller Digital, Schiller Interactive and the shared creative offices for individual creative companies, such as the production company Locomotion.
Schiller & Company Facility House is still listed as today"s biggest European facility house with photography as the main theme.
In 2003, Leif Schiller did the world"s largest commercial photo for Lyngby Storcenter shopping mall.The photo included 18 scenes, 92 models, 4 animals, 3 pieces of 3-Doctorate generated models, 25 persons production team The length of photoshoot was 14 days.
Production took 38 days. There were 93 pieces for scanning, 358 silhouettes, 458 picture layers and the total size of photo was 1,325 Great Britain. In his later career, Leif Schiller devoted himself to work on The Insight and Foresight Association, of which he was a creator.
Schiller was in charge of teaching the children and teenagers how to photograph, which resulted in Denmark"s largest outdoor photo exhibition, hosted by Galleri Hamlet in Hamletsgade, Copenhagen.
Due to that project, Leif Schiller was featured on Denmark"s Radio television channel, had an article on Copenhagen Kommune website and Paa Gaden magazine.