since September 2019 // Guidebook Editor and Translator for DOM Publishers | Berlin | Germany
since December 2019 // Destination Expert, Tour Designer and Tour Leader at Atlas Obscura | NYC | United States of America
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June – Sep. 2011 // Tour Leader at Holland-America Line
April 2013 – March 2016 // Private Tutor for German, English and Russian
June – Sep. 2016 // Tour Leader at Aloschi Bros
VOLUNTARY WORK
July – Aug. 2008 // English Teacher with the Service Civil International | Shamakhi | Azerbaijan
Dec. 2009 – Feb. 2010 // Primary School Teacher with OIKOS | Bamako | Mali
Sept. 2014 – May 2015 // Entertainer for Refugee Children with AWO | Weimar | Germany
EXHIBITIONS
May – July 2014 // Where the Mountains Are | UAL Gallery | London | United Kingdom
June – July 2014 // Zwischen Stillstand und Gewalt | FiS | Heidelberg | Germany
August 2014 // Where the Mountains Are | Dalston Gallery | London | United Kingdom
August 2015 // Encounters Along the Road | Calafuria | Livorno | Italy
April – July 2017 // Babushkas and Bazaars | Aroma Galerie | Berlin | Germany
April – May 2017 // Weltanschauung | PhC | Capalbio | Italy
June – July 2017 // Space | Littlefield | Brooklyn | NYC | USA
June 2018 // Gute Arbeit | WZB | Berlin | Germany
September 2021 // Encounters | Alphonse | Livorno | Italy
LECTURES, SEMINARS & SPEECHES
June 2014 // Stalemate and Violence: Frozen Conflicts in the Former USSR | Heidelberg College of Education | Heidelberg | Germany
May 2016 // Travelling Through the Wild Caucasus | Schropp Library | Berlin | Germany
November 2016 // Eight Years as a Photojournalist in the Conflict Regions of the Caucasus | Humboldt University | Berlin | Germany
December 2016 // North Korea: a Journey Across the Hermit Kingdom | CIGV - Four Seasons Hotel | Florence | Italy
January 2017 // In the Lost Heart of Asia | Schropp Library | Berlin | Germany
May 2016 – May 2018 // Photojournalism and Documentary Photography | Berlino Schule | Berlin | Germany
September 2018 // Caucasus: Where the Mountains Are | Discovery Days | Laax | Switzerland
March 2019 // North Korea: Hermit Moments| Berlin Travel Festival | Berlin | Germany
March 2019 // Russia Unveiled | MUDEC | Milan | Italy
March 2019 // Russia Unveiled | National Geographic Expeditions | Chiasso | Switzerland
March 2019 // Along the Volga and Across Siberia | Italian Geographic Society | Rome | Italy
May 2019 // Chechnya and the North Caucasus | Berlin Travel Festival | Berlin | Germany
March 2020 // Rwanda: Dreams of Apes | Berlin Travel Festival | Berlin | Germany
May 2020 // Russia Unknown | National Geographic Expeditions Italy | Online Event
December 2020 // Riders and Shamans | National Geographic Expeditions Italy | Online Event
PUBLICATIONS
since May 2015 // Regular article and photo publications in several Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, and Guidebooks:
The Conway Bulletin (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Calvert Journal (UK), Russia Beyond the Headlines (RU/DE), The Post Internazionale, (IT),DJ-Mag (IT), Huck Magazine (USA), Decoded Magazine (UK/USA), La Nazione (IT), Il Tirreno (IT), Emerge Magazine (DE), Berlino Magazine (DE) C41 Magazine (IT), Float Magazine (UK), Freunde von Freunden (DE), Viaggiare i Balcani (IT), Reise Know-How (DE), DOM Publishers (DE), Africa Rivista (IT), Il Tascabile (IT), Post Pravda (CA/GE), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (CH), Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (DE), Il Foglio (IT) and more. See Tearsheets.
TRAVELS AND PROJECTS
2009 // All Roads Lead to Kabul | Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Central Asia
2009 // Inks of India | India and Nepal
2010 // Shades of Africa | Mali, Burkina-Faso
2010 // Splinters | Russia and the former USSR
2010 – 2012 // Living Rooms | Hungary and Slovakia
2010 – 2016 // Babushkas and Bazaars | Russia and the former USSR