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
In 2025, we moved to Zagreb in Croatia, where I continue to
run my coffee roasting business. For trademark reasons, I had
to rename the company. The new name is now "Artisan
Roasters" (https://www.artisan-roasters.com).
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
-
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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