Info

I am a photographer based near Frankfurt am Main and the author of three photobooks. From 2016–21, I worked with the photographer Yana Wernicke on Zenker, an examination of the history of German colonialism in Cameroon based on a portrait of the botanist and gardener G.A. Zenker. A book of the project was published in 2021 by Edition Patrick Frey.

In 2018–19, I participated in the ISSP master class of Clare Strand and Gordon MacDonald, where I began work on the project This Soil, which explores the idea of a hallowed German ground and the nation's founding myths. The work was later nominated for the MACK First Book Award and published by Kominek Books in 2021.

In 2024, I published my third book, A Narrow Foothold, a collaboration with American photographer Alan Huck. Inspired by the methodology of Walter Benjamin’s Passagenwerk, we sorted through our archives of orphaned images in order to assemble a collective portrait of an anonymous city.

Books

Press (selected)

Awards

  • 2023
    Nominated for the Prix Photoforum
  • 2022
    The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2021
  • 2020
    Shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award
  • 2019
    Shortlisted for the Skinnerboox Award
  • 2018
    Shortlisted for the Hariban Award
  • 2018
    Finalist for the Contemporary African Photography Prize
  • 2016
    Finalist for the Prix Levallois

Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2024

    Fotoraum Köln, with Yana Wernicke

  • 2024

    Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, with Anna-Lena-Wenzel, Berlin

  • 2023
    Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart
  • 2022
    Athens Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition
  • 2018

    Botanical Museum Berlin, with Yana Wernicke

  • 2018
    Odesa Photo Days
  • 2017
    Encontros da Imagem Projections
  • 2017
    Athens Photofestival
  • 2015
    Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin

Residencies

  • 2016
    New Urban Narratives, artist residency with the ISSP, Latvia

Education

  • 2023
    BA Photography, HSBI Bielefeld
  • 2019

    ISSP, Masterclass of Clare Strand and Gordon MacDonald

  • 2015

    Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin

  • 2012
    Graphic design studies, Hamburg