• 1966 born in Nesbyen, Norway
  • grew up at the Lower Rhine, Germany
  • 1988-1991 study of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 1992-2000 study of Communication Design, focus on photography under Angela Neuke, Bernhard Prinz and Inge Osswald, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • since 2006 member of „OSTKREUZ – Photographers Agency”
  • lives in Berlin



Publications in       

Stern, Spiegel, Emotion, Stern Gesund leben, Allegra, GEO SAISON, DIE ZEIT, Spex, Air Magazin, ADAC Reisen, Chrismon, DMEuro, Impulse, Maxi, Welt am Sonntag, TAZ, Neon, Brigitte, NZZ am Sonntag, Campus und Karriere, Merian, Vogue, Business Journal, Deutsche Boerse Group et al.


Awards

  • 2005 4th Koerber-Photo-Award to the issue „How the old live“
  • 2002 Documentary Photography Promotion Prize from Wuestenrot Foundation



Exhibitions

  • 2010
    2008     „The City. Becoming and Decaying“, collective exhibition 
at C/O Berlin, Germany
    „Das Paradies ist anderswo” (The paradise is somewhere else), V8 Gallery; Cologne; solo exhibition
  • „Photo festival dok:08” in Oslo, Norway; lecture
  • 2007 „Ich habe einen Koffer in Berlin. Norweger in Berlin um 1900 und 2000“ mit “28 Portraits von Norwegern in Berlin“ (I have a suitcase in Berlin. Norwegians in Berlin between 1900 and 2000, 28 portraits of Norwegians in Berlin), National Library Oslo, Norway; group exhibition
  • „10 Years of Documentary Photography Promotion Prize from Wuestenrot Foundation“ with „Das Nest” (The Nest), Historical Museum, Frankfurt/Main; group exhibition
  • 2006 „Irrelevant Relations – Ruby´s Room – Familiar“, Spielhaus Morrison Gallery, Berlin; exhibition with Anne Noble
  • 2005 „Wie leben die Alten” (How the old live), “4th Koerber-Photo-Award 2005“, Agathenburg; Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; group exhibition
  • 2003-2004 „Das Nest“ (The Nest), Spielhaus Morrison Gallery, Berlin; solo exhibition
  • „Dokumentarfotografie-FoerderpreistraegerInnen der Wuestenrotstiftung 2001/2002”, (Documentary              Photography Promotion Prize from Wuestenrot Foundation 2001/2002), Galerie der Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg; Museum fuer Photographie, Braunschweig; Museum Folkwang, Essen et al.; group exhibition

Book Publications

  • 2010"The City. Becoming and Decaying", Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany