About my person: Born in 1966 next to the biggest open coal mine in the world in the west part of Germany. Since I am a child I was always impressed how this coal mine changes the whole life of so many people and their surrounding, the landscape. In this surrounding when I was 14 years old I did my first photographs, which were landscapes and industry.   After grammar school I studied mechanical engineering, because of these machines which can change everything. Searching for a more creative way during my study I continued taking photographs and also my diploma in engineering was a design of a placer yacht. After working as a boat designer I decided to study once more: Photography. For this reason I moved to Haarlem (Nl), where a little private school for photography existed. After 3 years and my second diploma, I worked for years as a advertisement photographer in Amsterdam. Now I am living in Germany and Italy, where I work on my art works.   About my art work: Since I am young I am still impressed about the fact how the nature is changing the people, how the people are changing the nature. My work is like this nature, like the digging machines I am changing the nature. I try to concentrate the viewer on the essential facts, which influence our surrounding, our life and our desires.   I as the photographer decided the point of view and the moment of exposure. In this way I can open the eyes of the viewer for this, my world. In my pictures I want to show the two extremes; the silence/peace but also the tension/movement, which exist in our surrounding. The power of the nature, which changes the people. All my photographs are done with my analog camera. Before printing I adjust contrast and the light, a special light, which is nearly impossible. So I increase those two extremes, those emotions. Also there are missing people in my pictures, so I will create more space to the viewer in my photograph.   Like the digging machines I take the option to change the world, and this new world changes the idea of the observer. At the end there is the romantic vision of a changed world. Looking at my pictures the observer can step in this romantic surrounding, which creates a silence and tension in the person himself. With this emotions I want to cause the desire of searching and finding a place for any observer in my new world; a place where the observer would like to be, would like to exist.   By using just simple titles, like a simple description, for my work pieces I want to liberate the mind of the observer. In this way the thoughts have less limitation, in this way it will be much easier to enter my photographs.   Like this it will be possible for any person to enter and live in his own world.