As someone who's chosen to publicly display my images, my name and my thoughts as well as someone who has grown of age along with new media, I am more and more aware of the boundaries between personal and public life. I started this website as a place to showcase my images and add a few thoughts on what it's like to move to a new country, learn a new language and forge a career. I don't know what I ever expected out of it but I get a lot of enjoyment and some great feedback and it's turned into a fantastic way to stay in touch with people all over the world. But I also write things I'll never publish here and make photos most of you will never see.

I read a lot of blogs and connect with many strangers over this internet but it's a fine line (for me) between sharing too much and being honest. I find it fascinating to read about other people's lives and see their images or drawings or influences but after nine short months at this I've realized that I can't be like that and don't want to divulge all of my 'deep dark secrets' (but please, dear internet, keep publishing everyone else's because that shit is goooood). All of this is to say that there are times I will disappear and there are times I will be here every day and I'm not going to apologize for that or make false promises anymore. There are just some days when I'm better off talking to friends and not divulging everything to the world (wait, does that mean I'm becoming more German?!?). Right now I'm taking things one day at a time. Still happy to wake up in Berlin every day, still happy to make photos every day, still fighting with how to make my way in this big bad world every day. And I'm damn lucky and pleased to have this outlet to talk about some of it and to share my visual take on things.