Born in 1976 in Krefeld. He worked from 1999 to 2010 worked at the Schaden bookstore, specialised in photobooks. Since 2010, he directs the BAL bookstore in Paris, LE BAL Books. He is also curator in Warsaw, Leipzig, Arles. He writes regularly for publications like FOAM magazine, IMA magazine, Photo-eye and others. He publishes books in collaboration with Yellow Magic Books.
LE BAL Books is a bookshop for photobooks, with contemporary, self-published, out-of-print books. We are adjacent to the exhibition venue LE BAL in Paris. We host book launches and signatures, all of which we announce via newsletter, Facebook & Twitter.
Our categories are "new", "self-published", "hand-made", "signed", "rare", "last copies". We regularly organise book & magazine launches, signatures and conferences and special events around artist and photography books. Since opening in Fall 2009 we've invited around 90 photographers to sign and present their books.
We've both been called the best photobook shop in Paris and the best photobook shop in Europe by collectors and artists. While this has been a great honor, our intention is not at all to put other bookshops into a second place. In this fragile economical situation, the strong bonds between bookshops such as Librairie 29, Yvon Lambert, Clement Kauter, Dirk Bakker, Walther König, Tipi, Ascenseur Vegetal, Dashwood, Photographer's Gallery, Conor Donlon, Café Lehmitz Books are what keeps this business alive!
