Born in Frankfurt / Main in 1950, I am into photography now for around 40 years, My first photographic steps I took as a teenager in the 1960s and from 1970 to 1975 I studied photography at the Arts College (Fachhochschule für Gestaltung) in Dortmund. My teachers were Pan Walther (portrait-photography, landscape and fine art photography), Adolf Clemens ( photojournalism ) and my favorite one, Kah Jagals (screen-printing and \'Fotografik\' / graphic art based on photography). I have never been very much interested in studio photography, besides that I learned the basics during my time at the Arts College.

What I always liked besides and in connection with photography was travelling. In the late sixties and in the seventies I hitchhiked around western Europe and I had the plan to travel on the \'hippie-trail\' overland to India, immediately after finishing school in 1969. Unfortunately I had a pretty bad accident in April 1969 during my exams ans instead of travelling to India, I was hospitalized for 6 month and in permanent medical treatment for the next 3 years. Since that time I have a handicap in case of walking, but that fortunately didn`t stop me from travelling, besides that I knew and know the restrictions I have to live with very well.

Due to that accident and some other reasons, it wasn`t before 1982, that I travelled further east than Turkey (1971), my first impression of a non european culture. In 1982 on a trip to Sri Lanka I had my first encounter with the culture of South-Asia. 1984 I came to India for the first time and since that year I have visited India and its neighbouring countries more than 20 times and spend alltogether more than 6 years in this part of the world. In 1986 I travelled from Nepal to Tibet for a month and in 1994 I spend 5 month in China.

My kind of photography, I would call classical and my main themes are people - portraits, festivals, every day life and streetscenes -, landscapes, cityscapes and architecture. I simply like to stroll around and get a feeling for the place where I am. Since 2003 I was using analog equipment and did colourslides as well as black & white. Nowadays I work with a digital SLR. The darkroom - black & white printing I learned from the scratch and got pretty good with the time - has been replaced by the computer, but my kind of photography hasn`t changed very much.