About the Photographer

Born & raised in Germany, I came to photography a little later in life, but am no less enthusiastic about it. My interests are primarily fine art portraiture and still life, but I'm also into street photography. I guess, I'm fascinated by the spontaneous, the situational, which is why I prefer scenes created by others. Not that I couldn't arrange things myself, but you get the point. To enter a situation like this holds much more excitement, both for me and the people later viewing what my eye captured. It's like an impromptu speech, frozen in time with a lens.

My great inspiration and admiration are the early photography pioneers, their experimental style that mirrored so well not just their time, but the excitement about this new medium. A few years ago I wandered into the "foto" exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and it changed my life. Depicted were photographs and collages from central Europe spanning the years from 1918 to 1945. I set out right then and there to aspire to what I had seen. I'm not sure I'll ever achieve it, but I'm trying.