About me

I am a newcomer. Originally I come from beautiful Middle Franconia, from Erlangen(interesting facts about Erlangen, Foyer des Artes, 1982) to be precise. After graduating from high school, I studied photography for a year at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, which had a long-term impact on me and still does today.

In addition to photography, I was fascinated by the Spanish language, traveling and Mexico. Consequently, I moved to Berlin in the early 90s to study Ancient American Studies. Since then I have called Kreuzberg my home and the vibrant Berlin has kept me here ever since.

I love traveling, taking photos on the road, capturing landscapes, people and scenes of life. Because of my studies, I was often in Latin America and especially often in Peru. I organized mountain bike tours in the Andes with a fellow student. This gave rise to slide shows about these “adventure and cultural journeys at the navel of the earth”.

However, my studies then turned to computers, software (the 2000 bug) and business informatics. Later I ended up at Microsoft. During this time, I took advantage of the many business trips to the USA and extended them privately and went out to take photos. And you can’t say anything, America is simply super photogenic, especially New York as a paradise for street photographers

Actually, photography has accompanied me the whole time (apart from work). Fortunately Berlin had and has many great and very good offers in this area. Photo Centrum der VHS Kreuzberg, imago Fotokunst, Ostkreuzschule and and and… were my training centers.

To cut a long story short: After many years in IT – and I still find this area extremely exciting, especially now because of the new AIs – I started my own business as a portrait photographer in Berlin three years ago.

And love it…