Born in 1978 in Havirov near Ostrava, Czech Republic. After his family emigrated to Munich, Germany in 1981, he grew up and studied in the Bavarian Capital.
In 1998 he began studying politics at the Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich. Meanwhile he worked as assistant for several photographers and devoted himself more and more to the work as a photographer.
In the year 2000 he decided to fully concentrate on the work as photographer and started at Schneider-Press, one of the biggest German press agencies in the field of boulevard photography. Meanwhile working freelance for several Newspapers and agencies like Sueddeutsche Zeitung, dpa, Gnoni-Press, Artografica, etc. Besides the portrait and reportage work he also ran a photo studio together with a colleague photographer and worked on different projects. One of those, an experimental movie, “Road to Fokstugu” had his premier in Munich’s IMAX Theatre on the 19th July 2004 and was shown afterwards in movie theatres in 16 German Cities including Berlin and Hamburg. Due to his work he traveled throughout Europe and overseas.
In 2004 he decided to bring his career as boulevard photographer to an end and to move to Prague, Czech Republic for concentrating on his own projects. He worked for the weekly paper “The Prague Post” where he covered everything from Reportage to Food and Restaurant photography. That is where he discovered his passion for food photography. In 2008 one of his Cover pages for The Prague Post won an “Award of Excellence” in the European Newspaper Awards. From 2008 on he specialized in the field of food photography and is working now amongst others also for the Magazine FOOD as well as the Agency Stockfood.com.
In 2009 he published his first cookingbook for Nescafe. Next to the publishing industry he also frequently shoots for Restaurants and Hotels.
His work is published in newspapers and magazines all over Europe and overseas.