me
I am a geographer and photographer based in
Germany. I got my artstic photographic eduction in Bournemouth, UK
and learned the terms of the trade in London. After this, I knew that my
path was the photographic documentation of human land use and its
consequences, and that I had to go through a scientific eduction, too. I
continued my studies at the Free University of Berlin and ended them
with a M.Sc. in Development Geography after many many
geographic-photographic field trips to different land use areas such as
the regions under transformation from agro-collectivism to
agro-mega-capitalism in the former GDR, the Fruit and Walnut Forets in
Kyryzstan, which are a spectacular example of how humans and their
livestock benefit the environmental equilibrium instead of destroying
it, and to the Brazilian Amazon region, where I learned how far away the
aims of the global conservation community are from the real dealings of
the millions of people living there. Human land use does not only
happen in the countryside but also in urban regions. I observed the transormed public space in Tunis after the 2011
revolution, I have been visiting the changing face of Dubai for over ten
years and I am tracing current gentrification issues in Berlin,
especially in the evolving new Siemensstadt. My newest project in the
coutntryside is called Agrarförderlandschaft/ Agricultural Funding
Landscape, in which I want to show how in Europe, over the last decades, we
have build a horrible machinery that is destroying not only the face of
our earth surface, but also our grouds of living, and are turning
our landscapes into a dead carpet of money.
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