Photography is writing with light. Over 30 years of practice in the field of black and white photography. Education at the time of analogue film. Already as a teenager I enlarged my pictures exclusively in my own darkroom in order to be able to shape the entire production process myself.  

At that time I mainly worked with the cameras CANON AE1 and CANON A1, the black and white film ILFORD PAN F 50, papers from Ilford, enlargers from Durst and JOBO color processors.

Viewing a picture is a non-verbal communication process. The brain functions in pictures. That is why photography is so powerful, fast and direct in its effect.

With its special ability for minimalist motif abstraction, the reduction to structures, light and shadow, black and white photography is suitable for the artistic intensification of an image statement in the sense of artistic photography.  

The original analogue recording and enlarging methods are hardly used today, due to the displacement by digital photography. In the digital area I use systems from Canon and Fuji today.

But it is precisely this foundation of analog technology that still shapes me today. Warmth, soul and emotion should be represented and communicated in my pictures.

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I'm not looking for perfection here. It is precisely that which does not seem perfect that creates the feeling, the emotion, in a production. Supposed perfection, on the other hand, often lacks the necessary tension and the result usually seems cold. The old Chinese masters, for example, incorporated a grain of rice into the vases you designed so that your work was not absolutely perfect.

Despite the flood of stimuli and information, the constant increase in the speed of society, the viewer should pause in fascination. Increasingly a challenge. Tearing the observer out of his speed, slowing him down and devoting himself for a moment only to the picture. Communicate consciously with the picture. Whether he enjoys it or even rejects it is up to him alone. His system of values and experiences are among the decisive factors for this.

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"A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they're doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they're done, the models don't have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really."
 - Peter Lindbergh -