Paul is a self-taught landscape, fashion and sports photographer and music video director and has worked with musicians such as Die Toten Hosen, Marteria and Lena, as well as with football player Odell Beckham Jr. and basketball player Dirk Nowitzki.

Back in 2014, when the German national football team won the World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro, he was very close to the team at the Maracanã Stadium and able to capture the most emotional moments of the World Cup title. The resulting photos can be found in Ripke’s comprehensive photo book, ‘One Night in Rio’. He has accompanied the Formula One driver Nico Rosberg and the Mercedes AMG team around Lewis Hamilton as a content creator to their respective championships and has worked with brands such as Nike and Hugo Boss.

In addition to that, together with the German TV host and Entrepreneur Joko Winterscheidt, he has a podcast called “Alle Wege führen nach Ruhm” (english: All ways lead to fame), for which they won the Goldene Henne, a German media award, in 2019. Also in 2019, he published a vegan cooking magazine called „RIPKYTCHEN #VEGAN“, followed by a collection of his favorite „CHEAT“ recipes in his second „RIPKYTCHEN“ magazine.  

Today he runs his own textile label named “PARI” (PAul RIpke), which started in collaboration with ABOUT YOU in 2019. He has more than half a million followers on Instagram and works mainly as a digital creator. Ripke lives with his wife and three children in Newport Beach, California.