I was born in Germany in the 60s. In 1999 I immigrated with my family to Spain, where I have been living and working until now.
My young heart has been beating for art and music and already at the age of 12, I had the dream of becoming a professional musician. But this was a bit naïve and I started an apprenticeship as a cook. After a short time I made a fast career (1 Michelin star). I still had not given up on my dream and went back to school to get my A-levels (1991)…Then I studied art and music! In art, my focus was on photography and land art (1992-1998). In all this time I gave many live concerts and released 4 cd albums, did a lot of art and conceptual photography.
When we went to Spain (with two kids), I started cooking professionally again (the bills had to be paid). Since 2009 self-employed as a private chef! During this time I started to photograph my views out of the kitchen windows of my clients with a little Sony cyber shot camera (I loved it), so it was a conceptual work… and it turned into snapshots, moods and detail photographs. It turned into stories on social media and on my website. The final result was the publication of a combined cookbook and lifestyle book, together with my wife! Thinking about taking other food photos and also making the layout extraordinary, I borrowed a Nikon D5600 with a 35mm fixed focal length and started to take really focused photos again…I was already doing street photography without knowing it!
Due to professional ban in 2020 with Covid-19, I sold my business and have been a professional street photographer since 2021. I give workshops in street photography and I am a storytelling photographer in companies called Corporate Street!
You can see The title of my talk/conversation and discussion as a working title. But I find the topic “comfort zone” very interesting and the parallelism of street photography and other areas of life. It’s about Exploring street photography and the real life – The adventure of leaving the comfort zone.
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