I started photography during my studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar, which began in 2001.

After a travel to Sarajevo for my first time in 2001, I decided to go back to Bosnia-Herzegovina in Winter 2004/05 to document daily life in refugee camps around Tuzla.
The refugees living in these camps originally come from Srebrenica and its surrounding. I was interested in the living conditions ten years after the end of the war. For this project I had contacted the Bosnian NGO Snaga-Zene, an organization that essentially provides medical aid and does social work in the refugee camps. The photographic documentation that came out of is called „Blood and Honey « , what means Balkan in Turkish. As a project, it not only marks the beginning of my work as a documentary photographer, but also awakened a profound attraction to the Balkan region, its people and their stories.

In the following years, I have continued producing photographic series, either working with the support of local NGOs or on my own. In April 2007, I graduated from the Bauhaus with a book project called „past present future“, working together with the graphic designer Nora Kreissl. It is a combination of portraits and interviews with adolescent girls and boys who live in refugee camps or orphanages in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Since my graduation, I have been living in Paris and working as a freelance photographer for several Magazines and companies. I also started developing a new project that would take me back to the Balcans. A scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange) enabled me to go to Kosovo, just after it had achieved independency in march 2008.

Since January 2009 I am a masterstudent of reportage and documentary photography at the London University of Arts and Communikation (LCC). In spring 2009 I realised a Serie about the Garde Républicaine in Paris.

I spent two months (july and august 2009) in Burundi, east Africa, working together with the Documentary writer Laura Gabrielle Dix in cooperation with several aid organizations like NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council), A.PRO.D.H (Association pour la Protection des Droits Humains et des personnes Détenues) and ABDP (Association burundaise pour la défence des droits des prisonniers). Our work is about the repatriation of Burundian refugees, the Justice system- with special focuss of the situation in some of the many small prisoncells and the situation of the ex FNL (Forces for National Liberation) combattants.