After a short term studying Dutch literature and linguistics he left university in 1980 to become a furniture maker. A yearlong stay in Berlin, at that time - the mid eighties - still a walled-in city, led to a lasting interest in what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain. He gave up furniture making to pursue a career in photography and filmmaking. Since that time he has been working mainly in Central and Eastern Europe but also in other parts of the world, dominated by a communist ideology (Soviet Union, Mongolia, China). The most important subjects of his mainly black and white photograhical work are the difficult living conditions and the predominant role of recent history in the region.

The first film ha made was situated in Berlin: The Last Roman Catholic, a documentary film about the life of the Flemish avant- poet Paul van Ostayen in Berlin in the years after the First World War (1986). His other projects include Veterans, a photo documentary about the survivors of an AK-brigade, the underground, nationalist Polish army during the Second World War (1987). Vestiges, a photo documentary about the traces of the Russian and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in this century (1989). Kreislauf, a photo documentary about the reviving stream of (West) German tourists to Czech health resorts like Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and Mariánské Lázne (Marienbad) (1991). Dienst mit einfacher Frequenz, a documentary film about the life of Franz Kafka as civil servant at the Arbeiter-Unfallversicherungsanstalt (1992). Fejszés, a photo documentary about a gipsy village in Eastern Slovakia (1995). His ongoing photographic work includes a documentary about the twin villages Nagyszelmenc and Kisszelmenc. The Slovakian-Ukrainian border that cuts the main road between the villages in two, separates the Hungarian population of both villages. The prints have been published in 2000 entitled A kettészelt falu (The divided village).

In the second half of the 90s he lived alternately in Amsterdam and Budapest.

Apart from the uncommissioned work photographs have appeared in among other magazines: Vrij Nederland, Der Tagesspiegel, Die Tageszeitung, Magyar Hírlap, Magyar Narancs.