01. Thank you for accepting the invitation to discuss and show some of your work with us here at arcspace. Could you tell us about your background and how did you start being involved with photography?

I appreciate the opportunity. I am born and raised in Berlin, Kreuzberg and I am 30 years old now. I started with photography back in 2007 as I was hiking (the alps) for the first time with a good friend of mine.
Back then I spent all my money for a rather cheap SLR-Camera and tried to capture the beautiful landscapes these majestic mountains had to offer, with limited results for sure. But one year later I already started working as a photo assistant here in Kreuzberg because I was already in love with the creative process photography had to offer. One of the two photographers I was working for was an architectural photographer and I was definitely influenced by his great works at that time and I have a hang for architectural panoramics till today. After that, in 2009, things became quite serious already as I started a professional education at Lette-Verein, a technical college here in Berlin.

02. Could you describe your overall photographic vision and approach?

That is a tough one for sure because I think things like that change and evolve so fast, because you are constantly improving your work-flow as well as your creative vision with every single day you grow as an artist. My main business today is architecture and commercial photography so I will start with that. Architectural assignments as well as other commercial works that I do frequently, have to sell something and they have to convince the beholder in the first place, so the visual language and the overall idea of the image must be very clear and kind of more direct than when I create a free series for example. I do not try to document the “reality” here at all, instead I try to create a unique and aesthetic piece of art out of my personal experience I have on location and mix it with subjective feelings and thoughts. I love to work in a series and often I even think in a short sequence of pictures when I try to visualize something. A single image can be strong too, but in my opinion a sequence of several images only accomplishes to tell the whole story and reveals secrets that otherwise would have remained undiscovered. I am an optimistic and positive thinking person which helped me to create my personal signature style over time that is often highlighted by precise and strong color contrasts. Of course I strive to perfectionism and super high quality in my artistic vision on location as well as in post-processing afterwards.

03. Which are some of the influences to your photographic work and in what ways have they affected your approach?

Photographic influences are a very difficult issue to discuss because one of my main premises in general would be to not get influenced by other works, which allows me to create and evolve an own personal style in the first place. Nevertheless you will always be influenced, most of the times even subconscious, and that can also be a good thing for sure. I better call it inspiration because I simply learned to look at other works with some distance over the time. However, as I started photography I admired for example Ansel Adams or Sebastiao Salgado and I still follow a lot of other friendly photographers these days and get inspired by them day by day. Even though I work in color most of the times, I love to look at a descent black and white image I have to say. Salgados recent project “Genesis” for example is in my opinion an incredible strong and self-sacrificing body of work, especially his sublime landscapes reveal a real story line all together in the book.