F.C. Gundlach (Franz Christian Gundlach, born 16. July 1926 in Heinebach, died 23. July 2021 in Hamburg) was a photographer, gallery owner, collector, curator, teacher and founder. In September 2003, he became the Founding Director of the House of Photography in Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

His fashion photography of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, which deals with social phenomena and current trends in the visual arts, achieved iconic status, left its original context behind and found its way into museums and collections.

'As a fashion photographer who uses the recording medium for his productions, the photographer must live, think and feel in his time. Fashion photographs are always interpretations and stagings. They reflect and visualize the present zeitgeist and anticipate tomorrow's spirit. They offer projection screens for identification but also dreams, wishes and desires. And yet fashion photographs often say more about a time than documentary photographs pretending to have depicted reality.'

F.C. Gundlach was active as a producer of renowned national and international exhibition projects, promoter of young photographic talents, preserver of extraordinary photographic estates, consultant, and visionary in the sense of the medium of photography. He played a significant role in the development of photography as an art form.

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