He worked for one year as a freelance photographer with a local newspaper in his hometown Hagen before he started to study photography at the Fachhochschule Hannover. In the beginning of 2009, he quit his studies due to both personal and photographic reasons. Since then he has worked as a freelance photographer, focusing on long term in-depth projects of social and political issues worldwide.Andy first came to Kashmir in the early spring of 2007 at the end of a motorcycle trip across India. He simply fell in love with the region, the people, the light and the atmosphere of this remote place of the world. But as much as he loved it, that much he disliked the political situation of the valley. View the rest of his photo essay on Kashmir here.