• 1967 born in Delmenhorst, Germany
    1990-1996 study at the School of Art, Bremen
    1992 co-founder of the “Bremer Werkgruppe fuer Fotografie”
    since 1997 freelance photographer in Berlin
    since 2000 member of OSTKREUZ–Agentur der Fotografen
    2004-2006 photographer of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung campaign “Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf”
    2007 master class Arno Fischer
    since 2008 executive manager of OSTKREUZ–Agentur der Fotografen
    since 2008 lecturer at OSTKREUZSCHULE - School for Photography and Design

Awards and Scholarships

  • 1996 winner of the BFF-Prize for his diploma degree dissertation “Kaufland – Retail Spaces in Eastern Germany”
  • 1998 scholarship of the artist promotion program of the city of Bremen
  • 2000 scholarship of Fine Arts of the Berlin Senate for Science, Research and Culture


Solo Exhibitions

  • 1998 “Hochbunker in Bremen”, DAZ (German Architecture Centre), Berlin
  • 1999 “Kaufland – Retail Spaces in Eastern Germany”, Gallery of the School of Art, Yale University, USA
  • 2000 “Landsschaften”, Galerie Kunstbank, Berlin
  • 2004 “Provisorium. Discovering Traces of Unfinished Business”, Designmai, Mulackstr. 6, Berlin
  • 2005 “Provisorium 2. Discovering Traces of Unfinished Business”, Designmai, Oranienstr. 24, Berlin
  • 2006 “Provisorium 3. Discovering Traces of Unfinished Business”, Designmai, Luckenwalder Str. 4-6, Berlin
  • 2009 "Inside Stasi", gallery Focale, the association pour la photographie, Nyon, Switzerland

Collective Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1994 “Lebensraeume”, GAFF (Gallery for Photography), Rotenburg/Wümme
  • 1995 “Usedom”, World Trade Center, Bremen
  • 1996 “Formine”, Gallery Café Grün, Bremen “Reinhart-Wolff-Preis” exhibition, Museum of Art and Trading, Hamburg
  • 1996-1997 “Photographie im Norddreieck”, (travelling exhibition) Hanover, Hamburg, Bremen, Mulhouse
  • 2002 “Wandrahm – 4 Jahrzehnte Fotografie an der HfK Bremen”, Focke Museum, Bremen
  • 2005 “Neueinstellung – Deutschlandbilder” – Ostkreuz-exhibition, Pfefferberg, Berlin
  • 2006 "At the North Sea" and "Retail Spaces" at Cedro26, gallery in Rome, Italy "Vilnius" at the projection "Stadt / Raum / Grenzen", European Month of Photography, Vice Versa Artspace, Berlin
  • 2006-2008 “Images of Germany – 8 Photographic Positions of the Agency Ostkreuz” presented worldwide by the Goethe-Institut
  • 2007-2008

    2010    "Travel Notes. Europe" VI International Thematic Exhibition Project, traveling exhibition starting in Minsk (Belarus) and than all over the north east of Europe
  • „The City. Becoming and Decaying“, collective exhibition 
at C/O Berlin, Germany

Book Projects

  • 2005 “Deutschlandbilder – 17 Fotografische Positionen”, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany (book participation)
  • 2009
    2010    "24h Berlin", will be published by Steidl in autumn (book participation)
  • “The City. Becoming and Decaying”, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany