He was born in Bielefeld in 1990. As a twenty-year old he moved to Berlin for a basketball coaching position with Alba Berlin. He quit basketball in 2014 and spent the following year writing poetry. While working on the set of a dffb student film, he took a photo of actress Romina Kueper jumping into a pool and decided to concentrate on photography from that point on. He is currently working on a photo diary centered around his life in Bangkok, Thailand. He lives and works in Berlin and Bangkok.