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Ever since I picked up my first camera – an Instamatic 100 – and  looked at the resulting square images (a format that already seemed a litte strange during the 1980s), I did not stop taking pictures. It still gives me pause and great joy as an artist when I capture what I perceived as special and beautiful in a person or an object and managed to make this experience shareable with others.

What has changed is that nowadays, I aim to deliberately introduce that specific element of pause I feel myself into my images. By carefully controlling the environments in which I set my subjects, my work focuses on the de- and recontextualisation of people and objects. They are being presented in a way that allows for a change in perception: something or someone that might be taken for granted  gains a certain amount of agency in becoming the center of attention for and in itself.

Before settling on photography, I took various geographical and vocational detours  via being a webdesigner in Newcastle upon Tyne, being head of corporate communication in Vienna, writing my PhD at LMU Munich and being a staff photographer while also heading the communication department at the international and interdisciplinary research institute Center for Sensor Systems at the University of Siegen.

When I am not out taking pictures, I like to spend time with my family, enjoy mountain biking, mountaineering, and martial arts.