I was born in Kelkheim, Germany, in 1970 and have been living in Barcelona since 2000.
After studying photography at the Lette Verein in Berlin, I moved to London, where I began working for magazines, focusing on feature stories, architecture, travel, food, and portrait photography.
My editorial clients include The Guardian, The Observer, Die Zeit,
Der Spiegel, Stern, Colors Magazine, El País Semanal, Ojo de Pez,
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Apartamento, Art Magazin,
amongst others.
Alongside my editorial assignments, I have developed a long-term photographic practice centred on overlooked landscapes, ruins, sacred sites, peripheral architectures, and utopian urban environments.
My work investigates how traces of ideology, religion, infrastructure, and historical ambition remain embedded within the contemporary landscape.
In recent years, I have focused on projects investigating cities built from scratch on undeveloped land, including Brasília by Oscar Niemeyer, Chandigarh by Le Corbusier, and Astana in Kazakhstan.
Other long-term projects have examined shanty towns in Madrid, lava cave dwellings in the Canary Islands, frontón walls in rural Spain, and ruins and sacred stones across Europe.
Through a research-driven approach and a precise visual language, my photographs explore spaces suspended between past and present, function and disappearance, permanence and transformation.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My photographic work focuses on landscapes and structures that exist at the margins of visibility: ruins, sacred sites, abandoned infrastructures, peripheral architectures, and environments shaped by utopian ambition and historical change.
I am interested in places that appear suspended between different conditions — between construction and decay, memory and disappearance, ideology and everyday reality.
These spaces often resist clear categorization and reveal how societies leave traces of themselves within the landscape.
Rather than approaching photography primarily as documentary evidence, I use the image as a space for observation and interpretation.
Through controlled framing, neutral light, and an observational distance, the photographs investigate how architecture, landscape, and historical projection continue to shape contemporary space long after their original meaning or function has faded.
SELECTED AWARDS
1999 Observer Hodge Award, “Daily Life in China”, UK
2005 Fotonoviembre, “Chabolas de Madrid”, Spain
2014 Natja Award, USA
2018 PDN Award
2023 Winner of Portfolio Review, Revela’T Festival,
“Frontón Walls in Spanish Villages”
2023 Shortlisted, Belfast Photo Festival,
“Frontón Walls in Spanish Villages”
2023 Shortlisted, Getxophoto Festival,
“Frontón Walls in Spanish Villages”
2025 Shortlisted, Sony World Photography Awards,
“Between Ruins and Sacred Stones”
2025–26 Grant from Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst
supporting the ongoing project Ruins and Sacred Stones in Europe
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2003 Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Photography and Everyday Reality
2005 Fotonoviembre, Isla de Tenerife, Chabolas de Madrid
2005 Spectrum Sotos Gallery, Chabolas de Madrid
2011 Gallery One and a Half, London, Behind Bars
2021 Oberfett Gallery, Hamburg, Birds of Barcelona
2024 FineArt Igualada, Frontón Walls in Spanish Villages
2024 Revela’T Festival, Frontón Walls in Spanish Villages
