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Proof of life

Hello world! It’s over seven months now (woah, that’s more than half a year!) after my last blog post in english and I’m very sorry for that. But time flew away over the last half-year like never in my life. I had to make some really important decisions for my future (e.g. if I move for the news agency to Regensburg in Bavaria, 250 Miles from Hanover, where I live) and had to rule how to go on as a…

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New video online – Part 2 of the photo shoot with Anouk

Hi there, hope you had nice early spring days with some time for photos in the warm sun I had a very busy week with travelling to Berlin at Tuesday, a visit at Joe McNally’s workshop in Hamburg (northern Germany) on Thursday (Joe was really humorous and made me laugh a lot) and a seven hours business assignment on saturday where I had to wake up at 5.45 AM. But the people there were great and we got some very…

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Three generations-photoshoot in Hanover

Last weeks sunday I had the pleasure to make photographs of a big family. Three generations, eleven people. Despite partially heavy rain we had a lot of fun and got some really beautiful pictures. For me it was a specially delight to catch the grandparents’ still noticeable lovingness with my work! The photo shoot was a big surprise for the grandparents. They only knew about a session with me and her granddaughter but one hour later the other part of…

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New video online: Photoshoot on water after sunset

I have been somewhat creative this weekend and uploaded another video of the politicians series for the newspaper In this short clip you can see me taking photos of Thomas Iseke. I wanted to show the politicians not typically but more private. So Steffi and I met him in his hometown at the “Lake Steinhude”, the biggest lake in northern Germany, right before sunset. I had a picture in mind with him sitting on a landing stage right above the…

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