Thanks to Jörg Möhlenkamp for our joint first steps into the world of photography. Thanks to Anna Neumann, who has died too early, for our time shared with photography. - Sincere thanks to Serge J.-F. Levy for his generosity. - Sincere thanks to Henrike Schulz, for her unselfish and long lasting support of my work. - Thanks to Thomas Räse, Jan Röhl, Edi Weitz (and his photo site) and Maren Herzog for critique, advice and help. - Thanks to Michael Mieß and Jan Köpper for their collaboration with book productions and exhibitions. Thanks to Yang Liu, Joanna Rycko and Robert Schulze for their work on this (and other) website(s). - Thanks to Friedrich Loock for setting an example. - Thanks to Dr. Christian Kosfeld, Sonja Schlappinger and Dr. Peter Brössler, Ralph Rudolph, Xenia von Lilien-Waldau, Aditya and Babli Sharma. - Anonymous thanks to everyone who let me take their picture, to the many visitors of my exhibitions and the unknown visitors of this website.