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bike for help

Bike for Help was a solo-bicycle-expedition from India to Switzerland in order to raise money and awareness for leprosy sufferers in Asia.
During my 9300 km odyssey, I came close to the war in Afghanistan, cycled through the Indian-Pakistani crisis, fought against wild animals / robbers, crossed 3500 km of deserts, survived storms and torrential rains…
…with the mission to help those in need.
I wanted to demonstrate that an individual could change ‘the world’ with simple action. Following the philosophy ‘Action is better than words’.

st. john homeless shelter - london

For several years I have been working with homeless in London first as a ‘soup driver’ supplying food and assistance. In 1999 I began to help out in St.John’s homeless drop-in where I gave painting and photography–lessons.
The aim was not so much to teach them something but to take them away for some time from their own desperate existence into a world of creativity and expression. It made them stay away from alcohol and drugs for some time.
These images shall give a portrait of people who have and who have been left (by) society…souls with a future or none, certain or uncertain.

underground – the invisible move

…hidden from its surface the city has a second life.
The underground system is an efficient medium to bridge distances. Across the tunnels obstacles disappear.
People, souls … follow a journey – their destiny wanted or unwanted. They travel to work, to visit friends or family, to shop, to…
All have their own story and all carry a bit of the overall story with them.
Down there in the ‘underground’ it is quiet, noisy, hot, stinky, scary, stressful, …however the tube is part of every day life for most ‘metropolitans’.

‘Underground’ is an attempt to capture a few moments of people’s interaction with the underworld and their invisible move.

The images were taken between 1997 and 1999 in London, New York and Paris.

silent witnesses (concentration camps)

In 1998 I visited the concentration camps from WW II in Mauthausen (Austria), Dachau (Germany), Auschwitz – Birkenau (Poland) and Theresienstadt (Czech Republic).
These photos capture remains of the past and shall speak for themselves.

toilets all over the world

In 1996/97 after having completed my A-levels I decided to travel with a friend for nine months. It was a departure in many ways, a new life, a new freedom, new experiences and a process of exploring the great wide world.
We followed our noses and travelled through India, Nepal, South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia.
In each of those countries / continents we travelled in a different manner: by foot, motorbike, bicycle or public transport.
Life became very basic and luxuries such as the toilets became a rare delight.
At times it took several weeks until we faced a 'real' toilet again. During this period I began to capture impressions of those unusual ‘places of enlightment’.
‘Toilets all over the world’ celebrates the disgusting, the unusual, the obvious, the unseen and the soul of the ‘palace of in – dependence’.

impressions de paris

24 hours in trance through the ‘most beautiful city in the world’ made me fall for photography, changed my young life and encouraged me to make photography an important part of my life.