Award-winning
photographs
Carnaval
São Paulo - GEO Germany
Príncipe
Negro - National Geographic, Germany
Rice pita baker -
National Geographic / T-Online-
Calender)
Metrópolis
I - (Galeria Renot, São Paulo)
Exhibition
"A Visit to the
Cocoa" at the Goethe-Institut,
Salvador de Bahia
Jama Masjid Mosque, Old Delhi
Zeremonie zu Ehren des Gottes Shiva,
Virupaksha-Tempel, Pattadakal, Indien
Cacau - Story of a Global Success
22.5. until 20.09.2015
Frankfurt, Palmengarten
Sonderausstellung im Botanischen
Garten Augsburg, 12/2015 - 1/2016
Conversas de Café
Crema Magazin
Exhibition "Lux in Arcana, Rome"
SCA Green Coffee Intermediate, Lisboa
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Short profile
At the beginning of 2021, despite the pandemic, I founded the coffee
roasting company Café Aroma - Lisbon Coffee
Roasters.
Since October 2019 I have been living in Lisbon, where I continue my
activities as a photographer,
writer and photography trainer. My focus
is on travel photography and photo documentaries.
After my training as a bookseller
at Herder in 1986 in Stuttgart, I
worked for several years in the Herder bookstore in Rome. From 1991 to
2008 I worked as a Sales
Manager and Sales Director at the German publishing
houses, Klett and Kohlhammer. After enjoying the experience of several
photography workshops, I attended the Free School of Photography
Stuttgart in 2003-2004, which led me to start working on my own
photography projects.
In 2009, I moved to São Paulo, which marked the beginning of
my
work as a photographer and writer. In 2013 I moved to Mumbai, India,
and in 2019 to Lisbon, Portugal, where I founded my own Coffee Roastery "Café Aroma".
Documentaries
- Uma visita
ao café (A Visit to the Coffee, about Coffee in
Brazil)
- A Visit to
the Cocoa (about Cocoa in Brazil)
- Zu Besuch
beim Tabak (A Visit to the Tobacco, about tobacco in Brazil)
- Baba Budan
and the seven wonder seeds (about Coffee in India)
- Pushkar
Camel Fair (about the largest camel fair in the world)
- The Indian
Barn Owl (about a Barn Owl family in Mumbai)
- Bhopal -
The Second Disaster (about the worst poison gas accident in history)
- Cago - One
day of a Brazilian diamond prospector
- Lux in
Arcana (about the Vatican Secret Archives)
- In a
Sensual Frenzy (about carnival in São Paulo)
- Metropolis
with a big heart (about the city of São Paulo)
- Ganesh
Chaturthi (about the festival celebrated in honour of the god Ganesha
in Mumbai)
- Beautiful
Stranger: Brazil (about Rio, Pantanal, Minas Gerais and São
Paulo)
- Ladakh: Sky
is the limit
- Em
homenagem a Oscar Niemeyer
- Maria
Fumaça: Paranapiacaba, Anhumas and Jaguariúna
- Geschenke
der Götter - Gift of the Gods | Diamanten in Indien
- Der Atem
des Ijen - Schwefelarbeiter in Indonesien
- Vom
Ursprung des Kaffees - Kaffee in Äthiopien
Exhibitions
- Hidden
Views with the photo group "Project 1431" in Stuttgart (Rathaus and
Wortkino, 2009)
- Hidden
Views, Godfrey Pilkington Art Gallery, England, St.Helens (2010)
- Metrópolis,
Galeria Renot Antiques, São Paulo (2010)
- Metrópolis
I, Espaço Arte Galeria, São Paulo (2011),
- A visit to
the cocoa, Goethe Institute Salvador and Cocoa Festival, Itabuna, Bahia
(2011)
- Salão
de Chocolate, Salavdor de Bahia, Brazil (2012)
- Bumblebee
Jamboree, Community of Chesterfield in the U.S. state of Virginia (2012)
- Cacau
- Geschichte eines Welterfolgs (Story of a Global Success); Frankfurt,
Palmengarten (participation in the exhibition; 5-9/2015)
- Zu Besuch beim Kakao, Biospähre Potsdam (11/2023/2024)
Photografic excursions
- Fotoguide
in Rajasthan, India (for Thürmer Tours, Grasbrunn - Germany)
- National
Parks, Southwest USA
- Imposs!ble
India, North India
- Kerala,
South India
- World
Heritage Sites Ellora, Ajanta and Hampi, Pattadakal, Badami, Aihole,
India
- Pamplona -
Navarra - La tierra
- Landscapes
of the Pyrenees
- Colca,
Urubamba - Inka!
- Paraty -
for you!
- Trilha da
Fé - A pilgrimage in Brazil
- ... and
many more
Own
Photography workshop
- Photo
Course "Learn to see", Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai
- Photographic
group excursions to Elephanta Island
Magnum
Workshop Goa
Books/articles with my photos
- Metamorfoses
do Cacau: Economia, Sociedade, Cultura (ISBN: 978-85-62874-02-4)
- Schwarz
& Kienreich: Coffee FAQ - Questions, answers, Quintessences"
(ISBN: 978 -3-200-02496-0)
- Fátima
Moura: Conversas de Café / Talking About Coffee (ISBN:
978-972-8968-67-0)
- Georg
Bernardini, Der Schokoladentester - Die besten Schokoladen und Pralinen
der Welt, 2. Auflahe (ISBN 1. Auflage: 978-3-00-039820-9)
- Aus dem Buch: Leben und Arbeiten auf einer Kakaofarm in
Bahia (PDF:
530 KB, Text und Fotos von mir)
- Smithsonian.com
(www.smithsonianmag.com | Arts & Culture => Chocolate
Week)
- German
magazine DigitalPhoto (Brazil/Cocoa, issue 08/2014)
- Crema
Magazin - Die Kaffeereportage (1/2016)
References
(examples)
- Infozentrum
Schokolade, Odenthal; Ferrero
France, Mont-Saint-Aignan; CTT
Correios de Portugal (Portuguese Postal operator), Lisbon; Dallmayr,
Munich; Deutscher
Kaffeeverband, Hamburg;
Dannemann
El Nobre Cigarro GmbH, Lübbecke; Topicos
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Deutsch-Brasilianische Gesellschaft e.V., Bonn; Austrian
Agency Südwind ("Make Chocolate fair"), Linz; Swiss
Service Center for Professional training - SDBB, Bern; Sina
- The
Coffee Gang, Cologne; Australian
marketing agency MEGAFUN, Melbourne; Fair
Travel
e.V., Berlin; Bahen
& Co., Margaret
River, Australia; Melt of
Switzerland, Zurich;
Pralinenwerkstatt Bientzle,
Kirchheim Teck; David Maly, Gibraltar;
DataSweet GmbH, Solingen;
Chocolat – Der Schoko-Laden, Berlin; Madre
Chocolate, Oahu Hawaii;
AMMA Chocolates, Salvador
de Bahia; Chocolate Sabor dos Alpes, Treze Tílias, Brazil;
Schokoladenmanufaktur Choco Del Sol, Burgstädt;
Pralinenclub Genuss-Manufaktur GmbH i.G., Südlohn;
FABA NOBILIS, Böblingen,
Pralinenschule Kerstin Spehr, München; Homborg
finest foods, München;
KaffeeKombinat
Berlin; Palmengarten Frankfurt; UNIKATUM;
Kindermuseum,Leipzig;
Dr. Kaffees Röstorium, Siegburg; Espresso-Store, Frankfurt u.v.m.
Own
books
.
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Barista and
coffee tasting courses (São Paulo, Rome)
SCAE-
& Coffee roasting diploma (Rome, Stendal)
Latte Art,
Berlin School of Coffee
Cupping
& Sensorik Advanced, BSOC (Berlin)
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