- Born in Berlin
- After apprenticeship worked as plant engineer, taxi driver, projectionist, lifeguard et al.
- Study of Modern History and European Anthropology at Berlin´s Humboldt University (M.A.) as well as Film Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England
- 2000-2007 on the staff of the Berlin International Film Festival
- Study of photography, 2004 in Werner Mahler´s class, 2005-2007 at the OSTKREUZ School of Photography with Prof. Ute Mahler
- 2007 Diploma work "Land of Feast"
- 2008-09 Masterclass of Arno Fischer
- Lives in Berlin
Exhibitions (Selection), Awards and Publications:
- December 2011 Scholarship of the VG Bild-Kunst
- January 2011 Single exhibition of PLAIN CITY in Hamburg´s Robert Morat Gallery
- March 2010 Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award in the category Professional Fine Art - Landscape
- January 2009 Group exhibition NACH BERLINER ART (The Berlin Way) together with photographers of the Ostkreuz Agency in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance
- April 2008 Epson art photo award in the category Best Single Works for PLAIN CITY
- November 2007 Diploma exhibition with the Ostkreuz School of Photography
- 2007/08 Group exhibitions of the photography project ÜBER DEN FLUSS (Across the River) in Kaunas, Lithuania as well as Berlin and Warsaw
- 2007 Diploma work FEIERLAND (Land of Feast)
References: taz, Handelsblatt, Neon, Financial Times Deutschland, Das Magazin, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, chrismon, Die Zeit, StadtAnsichten, Newsweek, SZ Magazin