I am a Senior Photo Editor at GEO magazine with many years of expertise in producing, directing, and researching high-quality imagery.
The emphasis of my work is on visual storytelling, portrait and still life across multiple distribution channels, print and digital publications.
Apart from my job at GEO magazine I also work as a freelance photographer, spezializing in portrait, editorial, documentary and corporate photography.
I am based both in Tallinn/Estonia and Hamburg/Germany. I take commissions in the baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania but also in Finland, Scandinavia and Germany.
I have studied photography both at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund/Germany and at the University College Falmouth/England. I graduated in 2011 with my work “Lifeline”.
I love meeting people and taking pictures of them. When I am not behind the camera or the computer, I relish nature as well as travelling, philosophizing about life in general or simply improving
my cooking skills, trying to delight family and friends. I am always up for a challenge and any new experience that may come my way. So feel free to drop me a line and say Hi!
I speak native German, fluent English, Spanish and Estonian.
My clients include Monocle, Der Spiegel, DIE ZEIT, Surface Magazine, Mercedes-Benz Magazine, GEO kompakt, GEO Wissen, GEO Epoche, Wirtschaftswoche, chrismon, Handelsblatt,
Bertelsmann Foundation, change Magazine, German Embassy Estonia, Goethe Institute, Appelberg Publishing Group among others.
SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS
2011
Finalist Dummy Award, Fotobookfestival, 4th International Photobook Festival, Kassel/Germany
Finalist St. Leopold Peace Prize, Stift Klosterneuburg/Austria
2007-2011
Scholarship for academic excellence, Cusanuswerk government scholarship/Germany
2009-2010
Erasmus scholarship, University College Falmouth/England
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS
2015
Üks keel – mitu lugu – Estonia national theatre Tallinn/Estonia
Üks keel – mitu lugu – Solaris keskus Tallinn/Estonia
Üks keel – mitu lugu – Goethe Institut Tallinn/Estonia
2013
Shibuya Publishing Books and Sellers – Tokyo/Japan
HAGI-SO Gallery – Tokyo/Japan
Book Storage@Tokyo Art Book Fair/Japan
2011
St. Leopold Peace Prize – Stift Klosterneuburg/Austria
Klick:Ruhrgebiet – Wolfsburg Mülheim a.d. Ruhr/Germany
Schauraum – FH Dortmund/Germany
Dummy Award – Fotobookfestival, 4th International Photobook Festival Kassel/Germany
Buchlabor – Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund/Germany
2008
Zum Bahnsteig – KHG Dortmund/Germany
BOOKS
2011
Lifeline
2009
Into the silent land
2007
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