Master Organ Builder Mathias Mebold

10 April 2025

For my photo project At Work, I visited the workshop of master organ builder Mathias Mebold in Siegen-Breitenbach. Instrument making is always fascinating for me, but organ building is special as there are so many different materials to work with: metal for the pipes, leather for the bellows and wood for the organ itself. For the portrait, we chose the tuning of the pipes. At the end there even was a little time left for some still lifes of tools.

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Portrait Photography for a Hearing Aid Specialist

3 January 2024

A local hearing aid specialist hired me for portrait photography, capturing various scenes from a typical workday. I really enjoyed working with them as they had a pretty clear and realistic understanding of what was needed.

They were about to redo their whole website and needed fresh visuals to go with the fresh website but told me about the troubles they had finding a webdesigner who would still answer their emails and calls after first getting to know each other. It is right that, as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, but more important is matching the following imporessions to that first one. reliability is key.

The shooting of the portraits went very smoothly – also because the master hearing aid acoustician herself was extremely reliable – and in the end everyone was satisfied, but also a little exhausted from the rather demanding shot list.

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Everything you Need to Make Ramen

22 September 2023

In early June I reached out to Ramen-Chef Erim Kreidel of Monaco Ramen to ask if he was interested in a collaboration on a kitchen utensils project. He was and we met at the Gasteig where he currently has his pop up location at Kulturdachgarten. Inside his incredible and custom made beauty of a Yatai (a Japanese food cart) we produced a shot that has all the tools you need for Ramen.

After finishing up with the kitchen utensils shoot, I asked if he had time for a portrait. Erim has been serving his incredible Ramen from various pop-up locations over the past years and instead of a more conventional approach we wanted to picture the taxing logistics, creativity and dedication involved when you have to move your whole restaurant to a new location every couple of months.

Then, the best part: Erim asked if I had some more time. He was hungry and was going to improvise a cooking session right there. Well. I’m glad I did have some more time! Amazing afternoon and ramen – thanks for having me!