...was born in Kempen am Niederrhein, Germany, in 1955. After graduating from high school, and doing a few semesters of Romance and German studies, he joined Arno Jansen's Artistic Photography class at the former Cologne Werkkunstschulen until 1985. In 1979, he received a certificate for submitting his Archetopos cycle for the German Photography Society's Otto Steinert Award. His work focuses a lot on photo projects and exhibitions of landscape photography, but also on portraits for book and cover illustrations.
