I'm based in Munich, Germany. My first approach to photography was at the age of 8, when my wonderful grandmother presented me the first camera, an Agfa film camera with no options to choose from except release with the red button. Probably there lies my preference today towards my beloved Leica Q2M with not many technical decisions to be made but framing and moving. As my parents didn't trust in the arts of being a safety place for my future, I had to let temporarily let go of my desire to become a photographer and artist and studied pharmacy, in which a have a degree of Mag.pharm. In the meantime, I studied the big photographers and art by myself and started taking workshops for camera technique and flash with my first SLR camera a Nikon D90 about 20 years ago. I steadily intensified my training with renown photographers like Tim Mantoani, Steve Mc Curry, Eolo Perfido, Steve Thornton, Marc De Tollenaere and David Alan Harvey and many more to learn about my way, to improve my photography and the ability to edit. Marc De Tollenaere and David Alan Harvey are up until today my mentors and Marc is the curator of my last two exhibitions.
While I was experimenting a lot with travel photography and even macro photography before, I finally made it into what I always have been burning for: An "Empty-Venice" photo workshop during the pandemic in July 2020 proofed to change my (photographic) life forever. I fell in love with the streets and street photography, after I had seen the exhibition "Le grand Jeu" in Palazzo Grassi - the catalogue with 5 different curators is guiding me in many respects up until today. I let go of all the heavy equipment and decided to fly free with what I could carry around for my endless and obsessive sessions. 3 months later, Leica released the tool, which I needed for my liberation has become my "extended arm" ever since then. I love to shoot in the dark, in the streets and in old dark houses and during traditional festivals. 2023 I exhibited "Mirrors and Windows" my first show of street photography. My actual exhibition " Rifletti prima di riflettere" is a portrait of a 88 year old female artist in interaction with the living organism of her Venetian palazzo. I've been shooting with her for the past 3,5 years and lived with her for 2 weeks last year in May to finish my work for the show and resulting booklet.
My actual work is on a project in La Perla (Puerto Rico), where I spent 2 weeks this year in February (with DAH and his wife) and 3 weeks in April by myself. This is a book project "Mundo aparte", which I will hopefully finish in the middle of next year.
I'm also working on my next exhibition in December 2024 in Munich "Amazing Grace“.
