I love taking photos since I was a child. I started small,  literally - with a pocket camera

and the 13 x 17 mm negative format.

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On my 16th birthday,  my grandmother gave me a technological quantum leap:

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A SLR camera

It opened up completely new photography worlds for me. 

I got up at 4 a.m. to watch deer in the early morning mist and at night on a bridge,   

to photograph the tracers of cars.     

I spent entire weekends in the darkroom - fascinated by how a picture slowly emerges on a piece of paper. 

I almost always had my camera with me. One day a DJ saw me with it and asked

if I could take photos at his event - that same evening!       

Now I had no other equipment apart from my Nikon - but I didn't have much time to think about it either.       

I said yes, and with a little improvisation and a borrowed tripod I managed my first assignment.

The result was obviously pleasing - since then I have been hired regularly.       

Event photography was my introduction to professional photography

and is still an integral part of my work today.       

But whether at events or individually - I prefer to photograph people.