A few words about my person...

born on July 8th 1971 in Braunschweig (Germany), the usual school career until „Abitur", then intense auto-didactic occupation with drawing and photography, freelance photography for a local magazine (mainly concert and event photography).

I spent a half-year internship in Wolfsburg with Mr. Heinrich Heidersberger (known for his architectural photography and his own invention, the so-called ‘Rhythmogrammes’) before entering the Braunschweig School of Arts in 1998 to study the Fine Arts.

After I had spend one year in the class of Hartmut Neumann,
I was joining the photography class of Dörte Eißfeldt there, which also helped me to gain first exhibition experiences, among others in the Kunsthaus Essen and the Mönchehaus-Museum for Modern Arts in Goslar.

...and my work:

One focus of my work lies in movement, more precisely the capturing of movement, in which a movement also can become its apparent negation, a ‘non-movement’, in being captured in an outwardly static way. This artificially induced ‘non-movement’ reveals itself only by the effort, the tension being invoked in order to achieve it, which can also find its specific expression in the pictures.

A peculiarity of the here presented works lies in the fact that I do not compose these pictures, but let the subject arrange itself.

Most pictures were made with the camera on a solid tripod and for all of them there was no more interference with the composition of the picture but at a certain point pressing the release button or removing the lid in front of the lens.

Life is a movie and its pictures are just passing by. The world is full of self-composing, constantly changing pictures. In my work I only let the right moments come by and pick them up.