BIOGRAPHY

I was born in 1961 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria and acquired my first camera at the age of four. While studying German and French at the University of Graz, I started to work as a photographer and writer for various Austrian and German magazines.

In 1987 I joined the New York-based agency Contact Press Images and undertook my first two major photojournalistic projects: the struggle for democracy in South Korea and the 1989 revolutions in the former Eastern bloc countries.

I moved to Cologne in 1990, left Contact and began free-lancing for international magazines such as GEO, Stern, Saison, Travel & Leisure, Business Week and New York Times Magazine. Essays on Cambodian refugee camps, Burma, Cuba, South Africa, "Monsoon in India" and the "Garbage People of Cairo" were published, among others.

Then came the conflict in former Jugoslavia, which I covered for some two years before starting work on the LUXURY TRAINS project. This story was presented at one of the shows at VISA pour l'Image 1996 in Perpignan; publication as a coffee-table book followed in 1997, and similar books about RIVER CRUISES and CLIPPER CRUISES were published in 2002 and 2004.

I moved my homebase to Vienna in 2001, out of where I am currently working on several book and magazine projects, mainly in Europe and Asia—shooting exclusively digital since late 2000.

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