Roger Schäfer was born in 1954 in Germany’s Münsterland region. After highschool graduation, he spent two years serving in the German Air Force, before working for various photo agencies in Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Heidelberg. Alongside his work as the director of an advertising agency and his commitments as a local politician, he always finds time to capture his surroundings and impressions of urban architecture with his Leica M Monochrom.
