When I started working as an artist in the early 80s, I had no money for paints and canvases. When the opportunity arose to work as a freelance photographer for daily newspapers, I accepted the offer. With the money I was now earning, I could finally start my own first artistic attempts. At the same time, I was looking forward to my new task of capturing the world in pictures with my camera. The RAF's assassination attempt on Deutsche Bank CEO Alfred Herrhausen, the Schleyer family as victims of RAF terror or the fall of the Berlin Wall are just three of many examples of work from this period. In 1987 I photographed a Kurdish family in a refugee shelter in Germany. Without thinking twice, I photographed my first motif on the subject of flight and migration. And it was only a matter of time before I discovered the subject for my art as well. In the book GRENZERFAHRUNG - Fluchtziel Europa, publication date April 2023, I summarise this part of my artistic work in an artist's monograph.
At the same time, of course, many other works were created inside and outside my studio. The submitted photograph ACT VIII is a good example of this.
