The Author - born in Leipzig, lives in Leipzig - mid sixties, started with a 6x6 twin-lenses reflex camera - seventies, changed to 35mm SLR cameras - early eighties, departure from SLR to M39 Rangefinder cameras - 1980–1985 Open pit mine landscape Leipzig Main Station Chemnitz - late eighties: some years off from taking pictures (SEE the world instead picture the world) - early nineties, 35mm compact camera - Late nineties, digital cameras used as work equipment - October 2001 Body/Measuring with a 6x8 middle format camera - From 2002, back to SLR cameras and fixed focal length lenses - 2002 to date: series Faces - 2002 Banal Photos - September 2002 to date series People in Galleries - 2003 Ponte 25 de Abril - May 2004 to date, also a digital pocket camera used - 2004 Leipzig at Twilight - September 2005 to date series Sittenbilder - 2005 to date city images: Lisbon, Rome, Barcelona - 2006 to date series Fairytale Places