documentary filmmaking & reportage photography
I make photo or video reports, documentaries or entire documentary films for magazines, print and online media. In reportages, I try to tell stories through photos – to create images of people and a topic, a culture or a social situation and to bring them to the center of our attention. In documentaries, I focus on people and their stories. My references in documentary film. I work independently as a photographer or filmmaker on documentaries in Berlin and abroad, from the idea, the dramaturgy, the shoot, to the final cut/edit. You can find my documentary films here.
You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. Joel Meyerowitz
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good depending on the relationship that you have with the people you photograph. Sebastiao Salgado
I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting. Agnes Varda
I’m a documentary photographer. That’s what I’ve always wanted to be; that’s where my heart and soul is. Mary Ellen Mark