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1938 (Nagykikinda) In 1962 he went to Hamburg. He was a mechanic and he earned his living as a blue-collar worker, e.g. as a lorry driver for years. In the meanwhile he learnt photography in an evening course. It took him a long time to find a job as a photographer, first he became a press photographer for Hamburger Abendblatt as he was the only who could take photographs of the Beatles arriving at the Ahrensburg railway station.
In 1969 he started to work for Stern and has been working there since. He published several photo-essays, reportage, he has been almost everywhere in the world to photograph. In 1984 he received the grand prize of World Press Photo for nature photography.
He has visited Hungary for many times, he took part in an exhibition entitled A Glance at the World in the spring 2000 in the National Museum in Budapest together with Stern staff photographers. |
