about me

I started taking pictures on film back in 2012. The first camera I got was a gift from my grandfather, an old Voigtländer Vito B. To this day, I still own some of his old cameras. They’re not particularly rare or expensive. In fact, quite the opposite. I treasure them merely for the way which they let me feel close to him, even now, after his passing

I got my start experimenting with video-making 5 years later, when my friend Liam approached me with the idea of creating a music video for his (then still active) band Paisley. He said he was tired of having to carry the creative direction of every music video himself and gave a me a carte blanche: „Do you what you want and get as artsy as you like.“ This was just what I needed to hear.

I feel lucky to have so many creative friends making amazing music that I have been able to work with over the years. Also, word got around and I quickly started taking on other projects as well. I believe the best results, in art and otherwise, are always a product of cooperation. I try to work with the artist as closely as possible, aiming to capture their vision of how they would like themselves and their art to be represented in the world. My goal is to enhance and expand on that vision. When I look back on past projects, I’m proud of what we created together. But what matters most to me is the shared experiences and the friendships formed over them.

I hold a Master’s degree (M. Sc.) in Landscape Architecture and have been working in the field for over three years. My interests lie particularly in the fields of historic gardens and parks, commemorative culture, ecology, climate change mitigation and nature conservation.
 
I am fascinated by the spaces where the natural and the human-made world meet. When they are in harmony, and even more so when they crash and collide. The subject became the main focus of my photography when I lived and worked in park management in Bad Muskau. This little town on the German-Polish border is where the romantic park vision of garden designer and eccentric Prince Pückler (1785-1871) collide with the excess and greed of a modern-day capitalist society in the grotesque form of the so-called Polish Market. The result is the exhibition ‘it’s easy to say this place isn’t beautiful’ (2022). My series ‘1,10 m’ documenting fences in German garden allotments (Kleingärten) was featured in the exhibition ‘Kleingarten Eden’ at ZfBK Sachsen in 2025.

My other forays into the medium of film have taken me to create documentaries as well as promotional video trailers for my employers. This includes a 20-minute short film documenting the challenges faced by park management at Muskauer Park in the face of climate change (2021), as well as a video trailer advertising for the wonderful tours of Tobermory Wave Adventures in Ontario, Canada (2024), whom I’ve had the pleasure of working for as tour guide during a full season.