About my work

I started taking photos in 2011, but I always was too impatient to learn something step by step or to stick to any rules. I just wanted to make pictures. In my own way. Wanted to find an expression for how I perceive the world. And actually, I didn’t expect to continue this for so long and so intense…
At first I photographed abandoned places and buildings or roamed through the woods with my camera… a few years later I started taking photos of myself. Or rather, I started using my body to express myself. Especially in the beginning, I tried to think or consciously create as little as possible – I just wanted to focus on what I was feeling…. wanted to capture what came up spontaneously and let myself fall into the moment to see where it takes me, what it shows me. I still love doing that… but in the meantime I also see advantages in allowing a few thoughts and deepening the thoughts, not just relying on spontaneous impulses and coincidences. To give the images space and time to grow mentally and to get a form…. But that doesn’t change the fact that the images are primarily about feelings and moods, moments and emotions. Sometimes as a conscious confrontation, usually more as an exploration of the unconscious. Sometimes with a focus on extensive editing…. sometimes with a focus on photography. But whether one way or another: the making of all my images is a continual attempt to grasp and understand myself (as a human being, as a woman, as part of this society, as part of this world,…)… perhaps to change, to overcome… to be as honest as I can be…. to endure… to try out… to find expression, to improve… to find truth. To accept what is. To be myself. And in the end to be more than myself – ideally: to be your mirror.