About
Below the waves
All my life I have been fascinated by the ocean. Luckily as a kid I learned to snorkel and had the possibility to see coral reefs and their inhabitants with my own eyes. I immediately fell in love with the underwater world and this has not changed since.
It would though take me quite some time until I started to use a camera underwater but my way somehow always pointed that way and since I started diving, I always dreamt of doing something below the waves.
I learned diving in a murky pond in Germany and it took me two years to go diving again. This time in the crystal clear waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Hadn’t I have been recently accepted to study film in Germany, I probably would have stayed, become a dive master and sought for a career in diving.
In 2021 my partner Nina and me finally pursued the dream of becoming a divemaster and did an internship with Kraken Diving in Orkney/Scotland. We knew that we would want to be in the underwater as much as we can.
Since we moved to Tenerife in late 2023, diving has become part of our daily life and we started with underwater imagery, combining two big passions – imagery and diving.
Moreover a year later we became instructors and although not regularly working as instructors, we aim to teach in the future diving to people who would otherwise have no access to it.
But most importantly, over the last decade we learned so much more about the oceans, its inhabitants, the fragility of the underwater world and the need to protect it.
For that reason we decided to start the Light and Blue Collective through which we want to do and contribute on a non-profit base to supporting environmental protection work, education about and conservation of the sea.
I hope that through our work we can share our love and fascination of the underwater world and that this will contribute to protect the oceans.
By telling the stories of its inhabitants and showing the importance to protect them I hope I will inspire people to get involved and participate in this extremely important aim.