• 1977 born in Lich, Germany
  • 1996-1998 apprenticeship as a draftsman
  • 1998-2004 study of Photography and Film Design under Prof. Roman Bezjak, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld
  • 2002 six months study visit in South Africa
  • since 2004 member of „OSTKREUZ – photographers agency“
  • lives in Berlin


Publications in
Die Zeit, Stern, Spiegel, Spiegel Spezial, GEO, Le Monde, Télérama, Neon, Horizonte, TAZ, L´espresso, Emotion, Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin, Gesund Leben, Condé Nast Traveller, Chrismon, NZZ am Sonntag, Uni-Spiegel, Schweizer Familie, Dummy, Greenpeace Magazin, Sie + Er, Tagesanzeiger, L´Express, Menschen, Tip, Welt am Sonntag, Aktion Mensch, Art et. a

Awards

  • 2011 European Architectural Photography Prize, 2. place
  • 2005 honorable mention at the Lead Awards
  • Category: Best photography feature in German magazines
  • 4th Koerber-Photo-Award to the issue “Wie leben die Alten?“ (How the old live)
  • 2004 nomination for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass


Exhibitions

  • 2010
    2009
  • „The City. Becoming and Decaying“, collective exhibition 
at C/O Berlin, Germany
    Goethe-Institute Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi
  • 2008
  • Alte Feuerwache Berlin
  • 2008
  • V8-Galerie Köln
  • 2007 „Home Sweet Home”, Yogyakarta/ Indonesia
  • 2005 „Neueinstellung. Deutschlandbilder – 17 Fotografische Positionen” (Neueinstellung. Deutschlandbilder – 17 Photographic Positions), Pfefferberg, Berlin; collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute
  • „Die Kunst Deutsche(r) zu sein” (The skill to be a German) at the 7th International Photo Days, Mannheim/ Ludwigshafen
  • „Wie leben die Alten?” (How the old live) 4th Koerber-Photo-Award 2005, Agathenburg; Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
  • „Lead Awards 2005“, Deichtorhallen, House of Photography, Hamburg
  • 2004 Photokina, Cologne
  • 2002 „Taeglich extra” (Daily extra), Amerikahaus Bielefeld; collective exhibition with the Bildwild Galerie Group


Book Publications

  • 2010
    2005     „The City. Becoming and Decaying“, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
    „Neueinstellung. Deutschlandbilder – 17 Fotografische Positionen”, Edition Braus, Heidelberg
  • 2004 „Straight Talk – Voices from the New South Africa” Struik Publishers, South Africa