biography
P = project _ EA = solo show _ GA = group show _ K = catalogue/book
2025 _ I was commissioned to take photographs at two locations in the Mansfeld region on the verge to be completely emptied for entirely new purposes (P)
2024 _ „vom geist der menschen in gottes häusern“, Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Fürth (EA)
_ my spring trip took me, among other places, to Bor and Subotica in Serbia.
2023 _ „mansfeld museumal“; has also been shown at the werkleitz-festival 2023 „mein schatz“ (P, GA, K)
_ publication on „god's houses“ in „theo - Das unabhängige katholische Magazin“ 01/2023
_ appointment as a regular member of the German Photographic Society, DGPh
_ publication on „god's houses“ on „marlowes.de“
2022 _ publication on „god's houses“ in „photonews" 12/2022-1/2023
_ work scholarship from Stiftung Kulturfonds for „god's houses in germany“
_ „Le Clos et l'Ouvert - 40 ans de photographie au CRP“, Espace Le Carré, Lille (GA with Françoise Nuñez, Martin Parr, Jean-Louis Garnell, Marie-Paule Nègre, Max Lerouge, Michael Scheffer, Marilyn Bridges)
2021 _ work scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt for „god's houses in saxony-anhalt“
2020 _ work scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt for „mansfeld still life“
2019 _ „Framed Landscapes - European Photography Commissions 1984 - 2019“, Museo ICO, Madrid (GA + K)
2018 _ work scholarship of the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt for Armenia
since 2017 _ now also lives in a village in the harz region
_ „Paysages français - Une aventure photographique, 1984 - 2017“, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (GA + K)
_ „Chemin de fer“, CRP Douchy-les-Mines (GA with Sibylle Bergemann, Arno Fischer, Irina Ionesco, Bernard Plossu, Marc Trivier, Michel vanden Eeckhoudt)
2014-2017 _ 3 studio shows: „GreeenBerliiin“ + „rivers | tides“ + „constant(a change(s“
2013 _ awarding of a studio funded by the Berlin Senate
2012 _ „StahlWerk“ - Sculptures by Karl Menzen in photographs by Ralph Hinterkeuser, Berlin (P + K)
2009 _ „Images du Nord“, Le Carré d'Art, Chartres de Bretagne (GA with M. Bridges, J.-L. Garnell, J. Koudelka, B. Plossu u.a.)
_ „Im Feuerland“ - Pictures from Baku's oil fields, in: Culturscapes Aserbaidschan, Kulturgeschichte und Politik zwischen Kaukasus und Kaspischem Meer, Basel 2009 (K)
2007 _ „1, 2, 3 couleur II“, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douai (GA with Robin Dance, Jean-Louis Garnell, Philippe Lesage)
_ „1, 2, 3 couleur“, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douai (GA with Martin Parr, Wolfgang Zurborn)
_ „Univers Industriel“, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douchy-les-Mines (GA mit D. Auerbacher, M. Bridges, J-L. Garnell, B. Gilden, J. Koudelka, M. Séméniako u.a.)
2006 _ „formen :: finden“, photographic paraphrases of sculptures by Karl Menzen (P, GA)
2004-2019 _ represented by Editionsgalerie Lumas since initial selection until my own termination
2004 _ „Transit. Erfurt, Lille und andere Bühnen“, Kunsthalle Erfurt (P + EA + K), funding from the art foundation of north rhine-westphalia
_ „BerlinBauten“, Galerie Pernkopf, Berlin (EA)
_ „Fenster und Spiegel“, in: Kann Fotografie unsere Zeit in Bilder fassen? 25 Jahre Bielefelder Symposien über Fotografie. publishers: G. Jäger, J. Boström. Kerber, Bielefeld (K)
2003 _ „vision berlin“, Qiz Qalasi Gallery, Baku (EA)
_ DAAD scholarship for Baku, Azerbaijan (3-month work stay)
2002 _ „Fifty : Fifty - Gebaute und nicht gebaute Architektur für Berlin 1990 bis 2000“, Berlinische Galerie at the Grundkreditbank Art Forum, Berlin (P + EA + K)
_ „Aux marges du paysage“, Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo (GA with Lewis Baltz, Marilyn Bridges, Thierry Girard, Fumimasa Hosokawa, Kunihiko Katsumata, Philippe Lesage, Tamaki Motoki, Masatoshi Sakamoto, Jacques Vilet)
_ A series of postcards featuring the Romanesque monastery church in Lippoldsberg
2001 _ „Raumbilder“, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Bonn (P + GA + K with Jürgen Hohmuth and Michael Schroedter)
_ „Landscapes/Paesaggi“, Marcovaldo, Caraglio (P + GA + K, with Jocelyne Alloucherie, Alain Balzac, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Franco Fontana, Karen Knorr, Stephen Roach, Michel Séméniako) and Racconigi, Piemont, Italy (EA); again complete 2003 Caraglio (GA)
_ „Lille Métropole“, Mission Photographique Transmanche, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douchy-les-Mines, with the Goethe-Institut Lille, France (P + EA + K, Cahier No. 25 of the MPT); 2004 Maison de France, Berlin (EA); 2013 Hôtel de Ville, Douchy-les-Mines
_ catch-up diploma degree in photo/film design, with „Lille Métropole“ and the art-historical text „Hungrige Augen - Fotografie als Material und Zeuge des Malers Pablo Picasso“
1999 _ full-year scholarship of the Else-Heiliger-Fonds; now lives in Berlin
1997 _ „zu Hause“, Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg, Hennef (EA)
1996 _ „L‘Amour de l‘Art“, Artothèque de Nantes, France (GA)
_ „Scènes • Coulisses“, Autour des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France (EA)
1995 _ pop-up bookshop during the main week of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. These postcard-sized notices, displayed at eye level at all the key bends in the old town, attract many people to the roughly 500 books I’m offering for sale as part of my efforts to downsize my collection. A third are sold individually (e.g. by Lewis Baltz and Manfred Heiting), whilst the rest are bought by a Dutch antiquarian bookseller. I drive home 500kg lighter.
1994 _ Lecture on August Sander on the 30th anniversary of his death, Stadtmuseum Siegburg (German only, introduction by Dr Gert Fischer)
since 1993 _ intensification of my own artistic work: large-format colour photography, examination of architecture and urban and rural landscape. work stays in Europe, Jordan, Calcutta.
1993 _ curator of the thematic exhibition „In the Light of Shadows - Photography and the Presence of the Past“ (with Susanne Greven, Kapa, Wojciech Prazmowski, Salvatore Puglia), Stadtmuseum Siegburg (K). (read my catalogue text here)
1991 _ lives in the Rhineland again; writes some essays about classics of photography for „Contemporary Masterworks“, a tome published by St. James Press of London (read them here at 2026)
_ curator of the monographic exhibition „Knut Wolfgang Maron - Pictures about Landscapes“, Stadtmuseum Siegburg (K). (read my catalogue text here)
1986 _ curator of the two-day symposium „Fotografen filmen“ (photographers filming), University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, including four European premieres of films by Robert Frank
1983-88 _ studied photo/film design with Prof. Dr. Gottfried Jäger and Prof. Jörg Boström, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld; various participations in publications and exhibitions as well as text publications and lectures on photography
since 1983 _ photographer for architecture, artworks etc.
1980-81 _ assistant to Walter Schels, photographer, Munich (now Hamburg)
since 1975 _ photography
1959 _ born in Bonn
represented in collections like DG-Bank, Berlinische Galerie, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, BOOZ, various artotheks + many private
