He is also a gallery owner, collector and curator of numerous photographic projects all over the world. Since September 2003 he has also been the director of the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen (a huge art and photography exhibition complex in Hamburg). His own huge collection of fashion photographs from the fifties, sixties and seventies deal repeatedly with social phenomena and new trends in the visual arts. He often exhibits them more for their iconic value than their historical Importance. His collection of photographic works entitled The Image of Man in Photographs is among the most important private collections in Germany and is presented in the exhibition in Moscow. Among the photographers exhibiting in this exhibition are: P. Horst, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wulf, Normann Parkinson, Lilian Bassman, William Klein and David Lachapelle.