Clients:

Adveniat
Der Paritätische
Deutscher Caritasverband
Diakonisches Werk
Die Zeit
HAVI Global Logistics
Johanniter
Kindermissionswerk Die Sternsinger
Malteser
McDonalds Kinderhilfe
Misereor
Missio
Renovabis
RuhrMuseum
Stern

 

Journalistic trips: 

Albania [2022]
Argentine [2002, 2003, 2011]

Athos [1985, 1986]

Bhutan [1999]

Bolivia [1991, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018]

Bosnia and Herzegowina [1993, 2006, 2022]

Bulgaria [2024]

Brazil [1991, 1992, 2004, 2008]

Cambodia [2010] 

Chile [1998]

Colombia [2004, 2017]

Costa Rica [1991]

Croatia [1992, 1993]

Cuba [1998]

Czechia [1994, 2021]

Belarus [2000] 

Dominican Republic [1999, 2012]

Ecuador [2000, 2006, 2012, 2016]

Egypt [2006] 

El Salvador [1999, 2013, 2015, 2019]

Eritrea [1992]

Ethiopia [1992]

France [1984]

Great Britain [1987, 1994, 1996]

Guatemala [1997, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022]

Haiti [1996, 2008]

Honduras [1991, 2009, 2012]

Hungary [2018]

India:

    Andaman & Nicobar Island [1991]

    Andhra Pradesh [2009]

    Bihar [1999] 

    Himachal Pradesh [2005]

    Jammu & Kaschmir [2011]  

    Jharkhand [2004] 

    Tamil Nadu [1987]

    West Bengal [1989]   

Indonesia [1999]

Israel [1979, 1996]

Italy [2005, 2007, 2008, 2014] 

Kosovo [2018, 2022, 2024] 

Morocco [2003]

Macedonia [1991, 1992, 1995]

Mexico [2006, 2019]

Mozambique [2012]

Nepal [1989]

Nicaragua [2012, 2017]

Netherlands [2007, 2009, 2013]

Panama [2017]

Paraguay [2012]

Peru [1993, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2023, 2024]

Philippines [2008]

Poland [2000, 2023]

Romania [1992, 1994, 2006, 2011, 2014]

Russia [1982, 2000, 2012]

Serbia [1988, 1994]

Spain [1986, 2003, 2006, 2007]

Syria [2002]

Turkey [1981, 1982, 2002]

Uganda [2005]

Ukraine [2001, 2003, 2019, 2023]

Uruguay [2003, 2011]

Venezuela [2003]

 

 

Exhibitions (Selected):

2024 Überwasserkirche, Münster

2022 Show-Pavillon Düsseldorf

2020 Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen

2018 Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen

2017 Bensousan Han Expo, Thessaloniki

2016 Akademie Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim/Ruhr

2015 Kulturort Depot, Dortmund

2012 Ludwig-Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen

2011 Jüdische Synagoge, Düsseldorf

2011 Volkshochschule, Essen

2008 Deutscher Kinder- und Jugendhilfetag, Messe Essen  

2005 Théatre Vaudeville, Brüssel

2004 Bank im Bistum Essen

2002 Ruhrkohle AG, Essen; Landtag, Düsseldorf

2001 Kreissparkasse Köln

1999 Bergbaumuseum Bochum; Rathaus Essen

1998 Konrad-Martin-Haus, Paderborn

1997 Obere Pfarrkirche, Bamberg

1996 Volkshochschule Hamm

1995 Internationale Fototage Herten

1994 Kunstraum Farmsen, Hamburg

1993 Rathaus, Norderstedt

1992 Zeche Carl, Essen

1992 Campos de Jordao, Saõ Paulo/Brasili

1989 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

1987 Haus des Einzelhandels, Essen

1983 Galerie 23, Düsseldorf 

 

2023 First Prize in the photo contest "Discovering Europe", Sankelmark Academy

since 2013 Working for BENE, Magazine of the Essen Diocese
2010 Teaching photography in schools and in homes for disabled people 

2009 Scholarship by the VG Bild-Kunst

2005 Scholarship by theVG Bild-Kunst and the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung

2005 First Prize in the "One Vision European Photographic Competition"

2004 First Prize in the International Competition for Photojournalist of the UCIP

2001 Picture book "So nahe wurdest du mir" (So close did you get)

1992 Degree in design with the practical work "Grenzenlos–Roma in NRW" (No Limits - Roma gypsies in Germany) and the theoretical work "Bilder der Fremde"  (Pictures of the strange"

1990 Exams on the photo reportage "Calcutta"

1982–1992 Studying design at the Gesamthochschule Essen