During my Assignments in Afghanistan and Syria I met a lot of different journalists. Photographers or Writers, different people, different approaches. I often find myself arguing with especially older colleagues as I am 25 years old and “too young” for this job. Funny enough that the colleagues who pretend to have the longest experience make [...]

9:30 – Aleppo – Syria You know that it is time to go when  the Building next to you gets hit by a Mortar Grenade. It kicked me out of sleep in less than a second. Ok, time to go NOW! I grabbed my backpack and moved as fast as I can because where one [...]

09:00 – Media Center – Aleppo Woke up as usual and prepared my Equipment. Today we wanted to meet some FSA Brigades and see the Places where Aleppo was shelled by Scud Missiles. But hey, sometimes stuff works in a different way as you thought it would. While we had our daily coffee, I heard [...]

9:00 – Aleppo – Syria Today is Saturday and the other photographer who shared the room with me is leaving. We didn’t talk much but he seems to be one of the guys who doesnt care about the people and is only after money. He always wanted to go to the frontline to show fighting. [...]

9:30 Aleppo – Syria That was a short night. Mortar and artillery shelling very close to our position made it almost impossible to sleep… “you get used to it” is all my Fixer Mahmoud said. I also learned, that everything goes a little bit slower here in the arabian world as we stopped 4 times on [...]

8:00 – Aleppo – Syria I begin to get used to coffee as this seems to be the national drink here. A Mocca in the morning and everything is good. Today we plan to visit some Field Hospitals. 9:30 – Field Hospital – Aleppo We arrived at the first Field Hospital in the City of [...]

8:00 – Aleppo – Syria An early wake up after a noisy night. With noisy I mean continuos mortar and artillery shelling all over the city. Even if the grenades detonate 10km away it is still unbelievably loud. For breakfast we had sweet cakes which were really really good and I enjoyed a shower. Ok, [...]

6:00 Gaziantep – Turkey I decided that I am too young to sleep and looked for a taxi. After 10 Minutes of hard bargaining (paid 30€ for a Distance of 70km) I sat in a Taxi with my Taxidriver Machmet. I thought I could fall asleep but his style of driving made that impossible as [...]

15:35 – London Gatwick, UK My plane is taking off from london gatwick airport and I started to realize what I am doing. I travel to one of the most dangerous countries in the world. So much changed in the last 12 months… My camera equipment stuffed into one of these lovely ICU`s of F-Stop [...]

If you follow my Facebook page, you maybe have noticed that I will go to Syria to document the life of the citizens and the fight of the rebels against the current president Bashar al Assad and his troops. I will land on Tuesday morning in the Border City of Gaziantep to make my way [...]