Research takes many forms – and many people. From postdoctoral researchers navigating laser setups to composers for whom the church organ is the instrument of choice.

I photograph the people behind research institutions, universities, and higher education – scientists, researchers, professors, academics, and artists, as well as the administrative figures who make their work possible. Staff portraits and team portraits for research institutions and universities across NRW, editorial and scientific portraits, and the kind of image that goes beyond a headshot to say something about what a person actually does. The settings vary: aeroacoustic laboratories at the University of Siegen, foggy fields in rural North Rhine-Westphalia, organs in medieval churches, offices about to be cleared out after decades of service.

What stays constant is an interest in the person rather than the position. Photographing people in research and higher education requires a different kind of preparation than technical photography. Access is earned through conversation, trust through understanding, timing through patience – and the image through grasping what the subject’s work actually means to them.

Based in Telgte near Münster, within close reach of Osnabrück, Bielefeld, and the Ruhr area, I photograph researchers, scientists, and academics in their working environments – with an interest in the presence and focus that their work demands.

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