1961
* First time as a model in front of a camera (Hildesheim, Germany): "BABY ON BEAR RUG"
1972
* First personal brownie 35mm camera: "Canon"
1973
* First snapshots as a hobby photographer: "NUDE MALE TORSO"
1975
* First editorial photograph for a school newspaper: "CITY HISTORY"
1977
* First award in a local photo competition (Hanover, Germany): "LANDSCAPES"
1978
* First SLR 35mm camera: "Minolta Dynax 7-xi"
1984
* First group shoot with 3 nude models (Hanover, Germany): "TRIO"
1986
* First film role in a video (Mannheim, Germany): "GARAGE"
1992
* New SLR 35mm camera: "Nikon F 50"
1994
* First magazine cover (Duesseldorf, Germany): "NEW YORK"
1996
* First photo exhibition (Cologne, Germany): "SILHOUETTE"
1997
* Model for Greg Day, photographer from San Francisco (Berlin,
Germany): "HENNING & WOLFF"
* Change of profession from engineering to photography
* Group shoot with 28 nude models (Cologne, Germany): "FACTORY BOYZ"
* Model for Salomé, artist/painter (Berlin, Germany): "LEATHER MASTER"
1998
* First photo postcard (Frankfurt, Germany): "SAILOR"
* Acting roles in Rosa von Praunheim’s documentary film about the
scientist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (Berlin, Germany): "THE EINSTEIN OF SEX"
* First group exhibition with 3 other photographers (in Cologne,
Muenster, Dortmund, Bielefeld and Erfurt, Germany): "FACTORY BOYZ"
1999
* Group shoot with 6 nude models on the public streets of Berlin and
first shoot with nude models in Germany’s parliament building, the
Reichstag: "BERLIN NAKED – LIBERAL CAPITAL"
* Very first photograph published in a coffee table book (London,
England): "EXPOSED NAKED MEN –
A celebration of the male nude from ninety of the world’s greatest
photographers!"
* Inclusion in photo book (Berlin, Germany): "MAENNER MODELS PUR"
* Guest of the Tom of Finland Foundation (Los Angeles, California)
* First photo exhibition in the United States (Los Angeles,
California): "EUROPEAN STYLE PHOTOGRAPHY"
* First participation at an international art fair (Hollywood,
California): "EROTIC ART FAIR OF AMERICA"
* Model for Ron Anderegg, designer/artist and photographer (Hollywood,
California): "NO SNOW"
* Model for Jay Jorgensen, photographer (Los Angeles/California): "NAKED ARTISTS"
2000
* Model for Clive Barker, British best-selling author, award-winning
film director and artist/painter (Beverly Hills, California): "MASTER &
SLAVE"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "DREAMBOYS"
* Inclusion in photo book (Barcelona, Spain): "FACING MALE NUDITY"
* Model for David E. Armstrong, photographer (Beverly Hills,
California): "BLACK BOOK SERIES"
* Inclusion in photo book (New York City, New York): "EXPOSED"
* First book cover (Hamburg, Germany): "G@Y-NET-LIFE 2001"
* First professional SLR medium format camera: "Mamiya 645 Pro-TL"
* Portrait study of Ron Anderegg (Los Angeles, California): "PIANO"
2001
* Inclusion in photo book (Cape Town, South Africa): "BLACK BEAUTIES
II"
* Co-producer with film director Frank Ripploh (Rheine, Germany): "POLICE ACADEMY"
* Model for Arthur Tress, photographer from Cambria (Los Angeles,
California): "UNIFORMS"
* New SLR 35mm camera: "Nikon F 100", plus accessories Nikkor-Zoom AF
24-85 Asp-IF, Sigma-Zoom 24-70 1:2:8 DG and Sigma-Zoom APO 50-500
* Book cover (Berlin, Germany): "LEDERHANDBUCH II"
* Inclusion in cyclopaedia photo book (New York City, New York): "MALE
NUDE NOW"
* New digital 5.2MB camera: "Minolta Dimage 5"
* Portrait study of Romy Haag, Dutch singer (Berlin, Germany): "FEMME
FATALE"
* Group shoot with 16 nude models from 9 nations (Berlin, Germany): "1
HORSE & 16 MEN"
2002
* Portrait study of Jacques Leiser, former French concert impresario
for Maria Callas and Swatislav Richter (San Diego, California): "GENTLEMAN"
* Portrait study of Michael Childers, photographer from Palm Springs
(Hollywood, California): "BUTCH"
* Inclusion in photo book (Vaterstetten, Germany): "BATH BOOK FOR
WOMEN"
* Inclusion in three calendars (Munich, Germany): "MEN", "DATE BOOK"
and "LESEZEICHEN"
* Book cover (Hamburg, Germany): "G@Y-NET-LIFE 2003"
* Portrait study of Ricardo Meneses, Portuguese actor "O’Fantasma"
(Berlin, Germany): "MACHO MAN"
* Portrait study of Morris Kight, political activist (Los Angeles,
California): "LIFE BUST"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "DREAMBOYS II"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "DREAMBOYS III"
* Participation in panel discussion with author David Leddick and
photographers Michael Childers, Rick Castro, Tom Bianchi, Greg Bruce,
John Sonsini at the Advocate Gallery (Hollywood, California): "CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY"
* Co-curator with the Tom of Finland Foundation for a museum exhibition
(Los Angeles, California): "THE ART OF TOM OF FINLAND"
2003
* Production of documentary film by German television, channel VOX’s
"Wahre Liebe" (Los Angeles, California): "HvB IN HOLLYWOOD"
* Portrait study of Baxter of California (Los Angeles, California): "MALE COSMETIC MOGUL"
* Judge at international model contest (Hollywood, California): "2003
EXOTIC MALE DANCER"
* Participation in group exhibition at gallery Kunstbehandlung (Munich,
Germany): "SUBVERSIV"
* Participation in group exhibition at Schwules Museum Berlin (Berlin,
Germany): "PORNO MACHEN"
* Portrait study of Salomé, artist/painter (Berlin, Germany): "365
WATER LILIES"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "2BLUE"
* Inclusion in photo book (Tuebingen, Germany): "MEIN AUGE"
* Portrait studies of numerous international seniors (Berlin and Los
Angeles)
* Model for Rinaldo Hopf, artist and photographer (Berlin, Germany): "TRIO AT RUSSIAN MONUMENT"
* Judge at national model contest with American photographer Will
McBride and theatre director Corny Littmann (Hamburg, Germany): "FRESHBOY 2003"
* Judge at Tom of Finland Foundation’s international art contest (Los
Angeles, California): "2003 EMERGING EROTIC ARTIST CONTEST"
2004
* Model for Claes Lilja, Swedish film maker (Berlin, /Germany): "ARTIST
AT HOME"
* Model for Bernd Lasdin, photographer (Berlin, Germany): "LIEBEN UND
LEBEN IN ALLEN FARBEN"
* Cover photo for city map (Amsterdam, Netherlands): "AMSTERDAM MAP"
* Portrait studies of numerous international seniors (Berlin and Los
Angeles)
* New digital SLR 6.4MB camera:
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "BAD"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "BEACH BOYS"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "2BLUE volume2"
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney, Australia): "DEEP BLUE"
* Inclusion in photo book (Amsterdam, Netherlands): "YEARBOOK NL 2004"
* Co-photographer with Kingdome19 for coffee table book (Berlin,
Germany): "K19 & HvB"
* Inclusion in photo book (Cologne, Germany): "NAKED"
* Cooperation with Kingdome19 for photo book and
photo calendar "UNIVERSAL" (Berlin, Germany)
* Cover photo for John Rechy's cult novel Numbers, "NUMERADOS"
(Barcelona, Spain)
* Exhibition at Germany's renowned international Cultural Center,
The Goethe Institut Inter Nationes (Los Angeles, California)
2005
* Inclusion in photo book (Sydney/Australia): "WOMEN"
* Exhibition at the Catherine Beatty Gallery,
official opening by Germany's Consul General in New South Wales
and official greeting by the Lord Mayor of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
* Interviews by ABC National Radio and by SBS National Radio, also
video film
by Australia's leading newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herold (Sydney,
Australia)
* Group shoot "NAKED SYDNEY", scandal art happening with totally nude
women
on public streets of downtown (Sydney, Australia)
* Exhibition "UNIVERSAL" at the Flinders Hotel (Sydney, Australia)
* Judge at international photography contest "STONEWALL" (Sydney,
Australia)
* Exhibition at American book fair "QATB", panel discussion with Tom
Bianchi,
Mel Roberts, Rick Castro, Glen Hanson, Kevin King (Los Angeles,
California)
* Portrait study of 95 y/o Julius Shulman, America's highly renowned
architectural photographer
at his Mulholland
Drive Estate, (Los Angeles, California)
* Cover photo for Felice Picano's novel "FELICE" (Athens, Greece)
* Model for Christopher Isherwood's partner,
renowned American artist Don Barchardy (Santa Monica Beach,
California)
* Inclusion in photo book "NUDES INDEXX II" (Madrid, Spain)
* Judge a national model contest "2005 GML" (Berlin, Germany)
* Portrait study of Edson Cordeiro, Brazilian star singer (Berlin,
Germany)
* Exhibition at the summer festival "Divers/Cité" (Montreal, Canada)
* Inclusion in photo calendar "2006 MEN" (Munich, Germany)
* Inclusion in photo book "WOMEN" (Sydney, Australia)
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