Photographically, my guiding maxim comes from Lisette Model:

"Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.“

Getting into photo mode, for me, means something specific: the mundane surface disappears, the monkey mind goes quiet, and I dive into the moment.

What I am looking for is not the picture. The picture is often just a byproduct of a moment that has been revised and simplified by the act of looking. Souvenir photos of being present. Snapshots of personal nows. A kind of photography-based stress reduction.

I follow a slow, non-performative photographic approach, drawn to the urban and the rural, seeking to encounter moments of aesthetic form rather than hunt scenes.

Photography, for me, is not an instrumental activity but a disposition, a state of mind. Through quiet self-distancing, an observant detachment from the outer world becomes a way of coming closer to myself.

This way of being — and the quiet joy of searching within it — exists as an end in itself. The resulting images are personal postcards from moments of presence in which I am largely absent.

I mostly shoot with the beautiful Nikon Zf and a set of manual Voigtländer primes - 21, 35, 50, and 75mm - a combination that gives me back a photographic experience I had long been missing.

My Canon R6ll and Leica D-Lux 8 lead a bored existence on the substitutes' bench.

My portfolio is an exhibition space, not an archive. Currently limited to 50 works, which for a portfolio is already one or two too many. I've justified it to myself by noting that my photography spans both urban and rural spaces - so that's 25 workings per space :)

My feeds on photography platforms, like on irys, pixelfed, bluesky, fotocommunity and 500px are my playgrounds. But I carry a small love and hate relationship with digital performance on every platform.

My portfolio will be updated from time to time, when a photograph earns its place. and another has to make way for it. I hope I remember the last part.

A blog is forthcoming. First entries are in preparation. Update 14.06.2026: blog is implemented.

born *72. living close to frankfurt.

By profession, I work as a registered nurse and co-therapist in a psychiatric day clinic for adults, based on cognitive behavioral therapy - a context that has shaped how I encounter people, and how I listen - outward and inward.

lapsed running therapist - my knees send their regards.

Before that: ten years in emergency medical services with the German Red Cross. A defining chapter. I am grateful for every part of it.

In my former live, I was an architectural draftsman and a very looooong-term architecture student - eventually abandoned. Good that I started. Good that I stopped.

And then there was a stint as a not-quite-finished carpenter.

Photography, stillness and solitude, unavailability, reading, nature, moderate movement, hiking, running, road cycling, vegan diet, a minimalist streak, a love-hate relationship with digital space, humor, a kind of melancholy, authenticity. That’s me.