Born and raised in Swabia, studied biology and spent many years in business development.
Fascinated by people and the idea of using photography to make the emotional state of people visible.
Born on the Neckar (1959) and grew up in a strongly value-oriented parental home. My youth was shaped by my parents' carpentry business, embedded in the typical Swabian agricultural environment, which offered almost everything from the chicken coop to the sauerkraut fir (= barrel) to wine pressing.
Fascinated by all living things, I studied biology and eventually earned my doctorate in biotechnology. This fascination has not left me until today, especially since fundamental new findings are still waiting for us in biology.
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It is very important to me to turn knowledge and insights into contributions for a better world. I would like to encourage viewers to question their perceptions in order to get an appetite for something new: new perspectives as a starting point for change.
I am fascinated by the fact that we humans have the ability to connect with each other, to create images in our minds that trigger something new, sad or beautiful on both sides. Each person is a world of experience in their own right, so that encounters become journeys of discovery. And I am deeply convinced that you can look at people's experiences from the outside:
My photography is about bringing this out, making it visible and thus making it effective
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I photograph in analog technique, "optomechanically": in the analog camera (Olympus OM4 or Canon EOS3) a silver gelatin film is exposed and then developed in absolute darkness. The resulting image negative is then projected onto a silver halide baryta photo paper in the darkroom under red light with settings adapted to the conditions (the photo paper is not sensitive to red light), this paper is then also developed wet-chemically in the dark/under red light (now to the "positive"), watered, wet-glued and thus dried flat.
This time-honored process (since 1866) stands for maximum authenticity: what is in view at the moment the picture is taken is reproduced, there is no cut/copy/paste. Each image is unique due to this handcrafted process, a maximum of 25 prints are made from each negative, which are numbered and signed by hand.
