Biography

Born 1952 in Mistelbach/Niederösterreich (Lower Austria),
1967 - 1974 Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, a school for photography and art, thereafter teacher at the same school for photography for 2 years
since 1978 freelance photographer and writer
1983 - 1988 study of philosophie, history and soziology
1988 master degree in philosophy with a thesis "On Private Photography"
since 1988 numerous speeches "On Private Photography" at universities, museums, galleries

In the following years various publications on "Photography and Oral History", and also projects on old people, by the title of
"At 90" (A project on people at the age of 90)
"Dialog with the High Age"
"At 100" (A project on people at the age of 100)
"Love at High Age" etc.

Publication of books:
"Bäume" ("Trees") (1980),
"Zum Abschied, zur Wiederkehr" ("For Farewell, for Return") (1981),
"Die Wolken der Wüste" ("The Clouds of the Desert") (1983)
"Dorf-Bilder" ("Village-Pictures") (1983),
"Die Sehnsucht der Pinguine" ("The Penguin's Longing") (1992),
"Ich bin ..." ("I am ...") (1997)
"Die Sehnsucht der Pinguine" ("The Penguin's Longing")
new edition in 7 languages, (1999)
"Tagebuch der Natur" ("Diary of Nature")
NP-Buchverlag
"Flughafen. Eine eigene Welt" ("Airport. An own City") 2003
"Die Sehnsucht der Pinguine" ("The Penguin's Longing") new further slightly extended edition , 2004
Verlag Frederking & Thaler
"Illustriertes Fernweh. Vom Reisen und nach Hause Kommen", 2006, ("Illustrated Wanderlust. On Travelling and Returning Home", Verlag Frederking & Thaler
"Vienna. Pleasure and Melancholy", 2008, Edition Brandstätter

Various publications in magazines including:
Zoom, Photo, Extrablatt, Konkret, Stern, Geo, Life (USA), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Asahi Camera (Japan), Marco Polo (Japan),
Universum (Austria),. Reisemagazin (Austria, Wiener Zeitung, etc.

Exhibitions:
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Künstlerhaus, N.Ö. Galerie,
Museum des 20. Jahrhundert, Vienna; Österreichisches Fotomuseum, Bad Ischl, Steirischer Herbst, Graz;
Furter Exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Kleve, Braunschweig, Klagenfurt,
In USA: Norfolk, Washington (USA);
In Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Oita, Nagoya, Sapporo
In India: Bombay

Since 1989 collaboration with Wiener Zeitung