EDUCATION

Volksschule Höhnhart, Upper Austria
BEA, Schloss Traunsee, Gmunden
University of Vienna;

Photography education

Summer Academy Salzburg: 1977, 1978 Doug Stewart, Eiko Hosoe
Salzburg College workshops: 1979, 1980
Gelpke
Gerald Minkhoff
Verena von Gagern

England 1979:
Workshops with Ralph Gibson

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester,NY, USA, 1980/1981
photography, bookmaking, video, gallery.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE

Spent 25 years abroad:

Malaysia: Austrian Embassy (1973-1976); exhibition of photographs at Goethe Institute, Kuala Lumpur (1978). Various publications of photographs and photo journalism.

NYC (1981 - 1990) UNHQ (1983-1990); exhibition of photographs at UNHQ (1989), Namibia (UN election monitor, 1989), Nicaragua (UN election monitor, 1990).

Pakistan/Afghanistan (UN 1990-2000): Founding and board member of SPACH (Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage, 1992 - 2001). Editor of seven SPACH Newsletters.


Back home in Austria since 2001

Founding of Austria-Afghanistan Society in Vienna (2002). Exhibitions of Pakistani contemporary art in Vienna and Liezen, Austria. Assisted Mr. Hosain Bakhsh in the construction of Austrian hospital in Dahane Djarf, 80 km northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan (2004 - 2007).