He lived in Afghanistan from 2006-2008 and has been to many countries of Europe over the Middle East to South East Asia for shorter and longer assignments. In 2009 he started embracing the DSLR video cameras and is since then passionately shooting with the Canon 5d Mark II and the Canon 7d. His desire is to produce cinema looking documentaries but also to be as close to the people and the action and to look beyond the common pictures of war and poverty. He studied Persian and Arabic while being in the different countries and usually lived with local families or close to the local communities. While not being on assignment he is studying Oriental studies and comparative literature at the Ruhr Universität in Bochum.
2005 Winning the first prize of the German Youth Filmprize (category 18-23 years) with his documentary movie "Fliegerangriff auf Staufen"
2006-2008 Operation Mercy Kabul public relations administrator, blogging and writing from Afghanistan for German newspaper "Badische-Zeitung" and other magazines and newspapers
2010 "Met Film School" in London, UK , certificate in film making
His pictures have been exhibited in several regional and international exhibitions and printed in numerous magazines and national news papers.Currently he is preparing himself for documentary and photo assignments in Albania, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Egypt and Tanzania.
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