Roger Moenks: Grand Slam

By Sean Bickerton | November 20, 2002Email Article
Photographer Roger Moenks burst onto the scene at the end of 1999 with the release of a wonderfully whimsical book of photography — The Class of Click, A Yearbook — all the more stunning because it came from a novice.

The photography ranges from dramatically lit sepia-toned headshots to highly stylized, vibrantly colored and sexually charged tableaux, iconically representative of a teen's most fevered high school fantasies. Since its publication Moenks has also shot three articles for Interview Magazine along with a series of editorial features for Ocean Drive Magazine.

Moenks was a top-ranked tennis star in his teens, playing professionally in tournaments around the world until he was twenty-one. In fact he, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors were cited together by Tennis Magazine as the three young players to watch. A true citizen of the world, Moenks was born in Cologne, Germany, and settled in New York seven years ago, and due to his father's position with Lufthansa Airlines, he lived in Lima, Athens, Hong Kong and Paris in between.

After all of your travels around the world, how did you finally end up in New York?

I was in Spain playing a tournament and saw a television special on New York city and immediately decided to move — I just knew I wanted to live there. Coincidentally, one of the other players at the tournament lived in New York and mentioned that he had a full scholarship at St. Johns, so I applied, got a scholarship as well and moved that Fall. I got a BA in Psychology and then an MBA in marketing.

What did you do after you graduated?

After university I worked for a year on a really cool film project that is quite advanced, although there are no plans to release it right now. As a result I was hanging out with photographers and was around the whole scene, and I just thought "maybe I can do that too - it doesn't look that difficult," although I've come to appreciate just how difficult it can be.

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