• 1973 born in Meissen
  • 1992-1993 stay abroad in Israel, Turkey and Egypt
  • 1993-1994 study of Cultural Sciences and Italian at Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 1994-1995 practical training at the picture agency Zenit, Berlin
  • 1995-1998 photographical apprenticeship at Lette Verein, Berlin
  • since 1998 freelance work as a photographer
  • since 1999 member of „OSTKREUZ – Photographers Agency“
  • 2007 university teaching position for photography at art university Berlin-Weissensee
  • lives in Berlin


Publications in

  • Stern, Geo, Geo Spezial, Spiegel, Gesund Leben, Chrismon, Die Zeit, Aktion Mensch,Neon,  Amica (It), Marie Claire (It), Brigitte, Feinschmecker, Emotion, Geolino, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Nzz am Sonntag, Le Nouvel Observateur, Avanti, Art, Capital, Le Monde, Welt am Sonntag, Wirtschaftswoche, Plus Magazin, View, Brigitte Woman, Frankfurter Allgemeine et al.


Awards and scholarships

  • 2007 Media Award from Kindernothilfe-Stiftung fuer “Kinderrechte in der einen Welt“ (Childrens right in the one world)
  • Hansel-Mieth-Prize 2006 for the reportage „Die Uschi”
  • 2006 VG BILD-KUNST-Scholarship to realize a free project
  • Hansel-Mieth-Prize 2005 for „Scherben ohne Glueck” (Cullets without luck) and „Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen” (Let the children come to me)
  • Media Award from Kindernothilfe-Stiftung for „Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen“ (Let the children come to me)
  • 2005 Media Award of the Christian Media Association KEP for „Goldener Kompass” (Golden Compass)
  • 1997 Kodak Prize for Young Artists


Group Exhibitions

  • 2011
    2010
    2007/2008    „Wo Wirtschaft spielt.”, Stilwerk limited edition design gallery, Hamburg
    „The City. Becoming and Decaying“, collective exhibition 
at C/O Berlin, Germany
    „Muslimische Frauen in Deutschland” (Muslim Women in Germany), Goethe-Institute Washington
  • 2007 Hansel-Mieth-Prize 2006 with „Die Uschi”, Art Center, Berlin
  • „Tuerkisches Leben in Berlin“ (Turkish Life in Berlin), Lange Nacht der Museen, Podewil, Berlin
  • 2006-2008 „Deutschlandbilder – 8 Fotografische Positionen” (Images of Germany – 8 Photographic Positions); collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ presented worldwide by the Goethe-Institute
  • 2005 „Neueinstellung. Deutschlandbilder – 17 Fotografische Positionen” (Neueinstellung. Images of Germany – 17 Photographic Positions), Pfefferberg, Berlin; collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute
  • 2002/2005 „Augenblicke – Augenzeugen. Bilder aus Berlin” (Instants – Eye Witnesses. Pictures from Berlin); collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute, Gorkij Literature Museum Nischnij Nowgorod, Architects Association Perm; Goethe-Institute Milan
  • 2000 „Oestlich von Eden” (East of Eden), Fridericianum Kassel; collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ
  • 1999 „Oestlich von Eden. Von der DDR nach Deutschland 1974-1999” (East of Eden. From the German Democratic Republic to Germany 1974-1999), Postfuhramt and Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin; collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ in Mexico and culture cities worldwide
  • 1997 „Berlin-Bilder” (Berlin Pictures), Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin; collective exhibition of OSTKREUZ


Book Publications

  • 2010
    2005     „The City. Becoming and Decaying”, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
    „Neueinstellung. Deutschlandbilder – 17 Fotografische Positionen”, Edition Braus, Heidelberg
  • 2000 „Die Berlinerin – Fotografien und Geschichten”, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin
  • 1999 „Oestlich von Eden. Von der DDR nach Deutschland 1974-1999”, Brandstaetter Verlag, Vienna
  • 1996 „Berlin. Zwischen den Zeiten”, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin