About
I work with historical photographic processes. I explore the possibilities of these techniques, most of which were developed in the nineteenth century, and combine them with my own ideas for images. I use both modern reproductions of historical photographic equipment and original wooden cameras and lenses from the first half of the twentieth century.
“From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”
In these words, I recognise my own relationship with my cameras and lenses. Each has a character of its own for me, and working with them creates a sense of personal familiarity.
I am interested in photography’s ability to preserve something of an irretrievable moment. Every photograph shows a moment that has already passed by the time we look at it. In the daguerreotype, this idea takes on a particular form: the image appears on a mirror-polished silver surface prepared to be sensitive to light. Its visibility changes with the light and the viewing angle. Even a slight movement can reveal a prismatic play of colour that shifts the tones from warm to cool — as though different images were appearing on the same silver surface. Sometimes this image seems to me like a breath of Mother Nature — captured on the silver, a reflection of our reality that remains preserved for many years, perhaps even centuries.
“Imagine now that the mirror has retained the impressions of the objects reflected in it, and you have an almost complete idea of the daguerreotype.”
Exhibitions
- 2026
Echt Foto! Photography between Paper and Pixel
Museum für Fotografie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Berlin
Group exhibition
- 2019
New in the Museum: Daguerreotypes by Valerius Geng
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig, Old Town Hall · Leipzig
Collection display
- 2019
Edel sei der Druck – Old Photographic Techniques Revived
Landesmuseum Koblenz, House of Photography, Ehrenbreitstein Fortress · Koblenz
Group exhibition of the Gesellschaft für photographische Edeldruckverfahren e. V.
- 2019
Could be (Könnte aber doch)
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart · Stuttgart
Group exhibition
- 2017
Presence, Critique, Utopia (Präsenz, Kritik, Utopie)
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart · Stuttgart
Group exhibition
- 2017
Long Art Night – Nachtkunst
Schwäbisch Hall
Group exhibition
- 2016
Fotografie aktuell 2016 – 20 Years of Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart
VHS Art Gallery, Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz · Stuttgart
Group exhibition of Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart
- 2015
Faces (Gesichter)
Kulturmühle · Rechberghausen
Group exhibition of Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart
- 2015
Long Night of Museums
Café Babel · Stuttgart
Group exhibition of Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart
- 2014
Group Exhibition in Mellrichstadt
Gesellschaft für photographische Edeldruckverfahren e. V. · Mellrichstadt
Group exhibition
- 2014
Photographic Fine Art Printing Processes
Druckgrafisches Museum Pavillon-Presse · Weimar
Group exhibition of the Gesellschaft für photographische Edeldruckverfahren e. V.
- 2013
Losgelöst
Werkstatthaus · Stuttgart
Group exhibition of Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart
Works in Museum Collections
Museum für Fotografie – Photography Collection of the Kunstbibliothek
Berlin · Germany
Deutsches Museum
Munich · Germany
Musée Adrien Mentienne
Bry-sur-Marne · France
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig
Leipzig · Germany
Landesmuseum Koblenz
Koblenz · Germany