Born in Vienna in 1973
graduated the HTL as an electric engineer

... in the early 90ies he started playing guitar in a band and got into concert photography taking pics of various indie bands (sonic youth, L7, sebadoh, pavement,...) with an old Canon AE - at the same time he started to do nude photography with his former girlfriend - got inspired by richard kern and his book NY girls - 2001 he took his first pictures of old abandoned buildings (what today is called urban exploration) - in 2002 he started his new Band BLAKE - 2005 taking photography more serios - got more into fetish trash pinup style picture in lost places ...