As a child I loved staying at my uncle’s place in the “Südharz” who also had cattle as a part of his farm. To experience the birth of a calf or to sit on the verge of a pasture and just watch the animals graze was the greatest things for me. Those experiences have profoundly influenced my passion for nature and my decision to study agriculture.

My profession for over three decades at this point became the organized cattle breeding. My key activities were located in Saxony-Anhalt but beyond that I have worked as a “cattle-specialist” nationwide and internationally with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

I already found my way to photography as a young man. My first camera was a Russian model called “Zenit-Photosniper”. Since then I stayed faithful to the Canon brand. As a nature photographer I am particularly interested in wildlife and in the last years especially in landscape photography. There have also been situations in which I felt I had no other way than to engage in the relation of humans, nature and climate like I did in my Aral Sea portfolio.

I happily call Saxony-Anhalt my home, the area “Mansfelder Land” in particular which is coined by it’s variety between the mountain Harz and the river Saale. Whether I take up a nature photography project “at my doorstep” or do a photo-documentary about the almost extinct breed “Harzer Rotvieh” comes down to the same thing for me. I want to capture what fascinates and moves me.

After my intensive and incredible years in cattle breeding, I have now reached the end of my working life in 2021. This allows me to embark on new temporal spaces for my nature photography and also gives me the possibility to bestow more attention to the topic of “cattle photography from all facets”. For both the cattle breeding organizations as well as private breeders, I am happily available for photo- and video assignments all around cattle. https://rg10.gdtfoto.de/