I am a hobby photographer based in Southern Germany, working as a label manager in the classical music industry. I started playing the piano at 5 and for twenty years that was my profession. In 2002 I received a scholarship for the Music University of Stuttgart, but in 2006 I abruptly decided to give up the profession of piano playing. It took some two and half more years to find my way in a new profession (that of cultural management) which then brought with it what I previously haven’t had before in my entire life: free time to use it the way I choose. I invested that time in mountaineering with the aim to make photographic documentation of my mountain tours. At some point, photography got the upper hand…
Publications:
Terra Quantum (Interview from February 2022)
LensWork – Our Magnificent Planet (2021)
International Landscape Photographer of the Year (2021) – Top 101
LensWork – Our Magnificent Planet (2020)