In august 2002 i started in the streets of st.pauli with large-format black-and-white portraits against a white background. What moved me to portray this district was the unbelievable density of the most diverse types of people who live and work here - young successful ones, as well as impoverished or neglected, searching wanderers, old neighborhood icons, people who moved from the provinces and artists. The most varied and extreme life plans can be found here in a very small space, and St. Pauli is, depending on the individual situation, either the beginning or the end of a human existence.

The special atmosphere of this quarter, which I have never experienced anywhere else, should be recorded, because St. Pauli is a quarter in transition: the original structure, the “village-like”, is increasingly giving way to a stronger focus on the “serious” business world and at the same time one art family tourism.

I only take photos in front of white because St. Pauli can be found much more in the faces of the residents than in the well-known pictures of streets and neon signs. I remove people from their environment and focus only on people.