Born in Berlin, I am a social scientist and photographer. I studied management science at Humboldt University Berlin, obtained a doctorate in strategic management from the University of Maryland, College Park, and was assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School for six years each. My research focused on topics of organizational sociology, and I taught mainly strategic management at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.

Even though I have always owned a camera, I turned to photography only after meeting a South African photographer while on a stint in San Francisco in 2016. I have carried a camera everywhere since. Educating myself about the history of documentary and street photography since mid 2017, I decided to travel and photograph in South America after my academic appointment ended in mid 2018. Starting in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, in Jaunary 2019, I happily got "stuck" there for fourteen months, intermittently dodging strongarm robberies in Valparaíso and Rio de Janeiro. While in San Telmo, I transitioned from photographing the barrio to photographing "Los pibes de Chaca y Mexico." Then the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world, sending Argentina and the world into a lockdown and upending social life as we knew it.