• 21.11.75 born in Prenzlau
  • 1992 apprenticeship as a bricklayer
  • 1997 - 1998 community service<br />1998 working as a bricklayer
  • 1998 - 1999 college
  • 1999 - 2006 course of studies at the FH Hanover
  • since 2009 member of „OSTKREUZ – photographers agency“
  • lives in Hannover



Publications in
GEO, GEO International, Stadtansichten, Dummy-Magazin, Stern, Impulse, Chrismon, Süddeutsche Zeitung, FTD, DIE ZEIT, ZEIT LEBEN, Welt am Sonntag, DER SPIEGEL, brand eins, LUNA, DVA, DOCUMENTA GmbH, Lufthansamagazin, VANITY FAIR, emotion, CLOSE UP, FOCUS, ZEIT Geschichte, Best Practice, FISCHER VERLAG, VW Clubmagazin, DER WEDDING, CONTINENTAL AG, ADAC Reisemagazin


Exhibitions

  • 2010
    2009     „The City. Becoming and Decaying“, collective exhibition 
at C/O Berlin, Germany
    Foto Docs Festival in Bad Albling
  • 2008 LUMIX FESTIVAL for young photo-journalism
  • 2007 groupexhibition, „zug um zug .07“, price of the Sparda-Bank Hanover
  • 2006 groupexhibition, LeadAward 2006 im „Haus der Photografie“, Hamburg
  • 2005 MHH Kestnerschau, Hanover
  • 2003 groupexhibition, „ausgezeichnet“, G+J in Hamburg
  • 2003 groupexhibition, „Europameister“, town hall Hanover
  • 2002 groupexhibition, Kubus Hanover, „Hangover - Bilder einer unterschätzten Stadt“
  • 2002 groupexhibition, Photographyfestival in Perpignan, France
  • 2002 exhibition , Haus der Fotografie, Hanover
  • 2002 groupexhibition, VGH-Versicherung, Hanover
  • 2001 groupexhibition, University Hiroshima , Japan
  • 2001 groupexhibition, [kampnagel], Hamburg
  • 2000 groupexhibition, „Der Blick nach Berlin“, FH Hanover



Awards

  • 2002 Kodaknachwuchsförderpreis
  • Nachwuchsförderpreis der VDI-Nachrichten
  • Member of the 4th Symposium for documentary photographie in Bad Herrenalb
  • 2003 nominated for the World Press Masterclass
  • 2006 nominated for LEAD AWARD
  • 2007 nominated for „zug um zug .07“, den Kunstpreis der Sparda-Bank Hannover
  • 2007 1th price „BILDER DER FORSCHUNG“
  • 2008 stipendium der VG BILDKUNST

Book Publications

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