1971-1973

Studied art at the Escuela de Bellas Arte, Granada, Spain, Diploma Sobre Saliente

1973 -1976

Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts Diploma in Visual Communication and Photography

1976 -1987 

Artistic art direction in international agencies: Tokyo, New York, London, Zurich 

from 1988  

Freelance photo artist in Hamburg, London, Shanghai, Tokyo

1994 –1999

Travels abroad and stays in India, China, Japan, Russia, Australia. 

2002-2004 

Conceptual work for Olympus with first digital camera

2005 

Exhibition Olympus Gallery, Tokyo 

1st National Workshop/Competition in China for Creative Photography. Cooperation with Prof. Xiao Hui Wang/ Tongji University /Shanghai

2005 -2010

Meeting and intensive cooperation with Manfred Schneckenburger, two-time director of the "documenta

2011-2012

Journeys to China and Korea / studies of shamanic dances, among other things

2013-2015

Intensification of the work with extended projection, among other things, after participating twice in the Lichtsicht Biennale in Bad Rothenfelde 2011 + 2013, curated by Manfred Schneckenburger. 

Inclusion in the Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst: KANJO TAKÉ:  "The holy mountain and other myths"/ Manfred Schneckenburger

2015-2016

Intensification of media painting

2017-2018

Intensification of the extended projection "Beyond Shoji" as a participant of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

2019

Painting over analogue photographs

2020/21

Photo collages and painting
Lives and works in Düsseldorf