Hey! I’m Peter, I’m twenty-eight years old, and I was born and raised in West Germany – although I lived a couple of years in New York. I am currently working and living in Berlin, but I travel a lot. Oh, and I’m a photographer.

My mum is a fashion stylist and was working a lot while I was young, so I had to hang in photo studios when I was a kid. I think this is where it comes from. Also, I’m not good at anything else. Photography was always and always will be everything to me.

A lot of people think I shoot film because of the look, but I don’t even care that much about it. Many young photographers are shooting analogue now and also scanning the frames and stuff so that everybody sees it. But I’m doing it because I love the way film works. I’m the only one on set who knows how the pictures look like. Both clients and models have to trust me. In addition, I love the day in between before getting the results. And also, digital cameras just don’t sound and feel right.

Honesty. Nothing else.

Wild, free, and honest.

Actually, I REALLY HATE NEW YORK; it was amazing moving there back then, but life quality is very low if you don't make enough money. Berlin is the total opposite: it’s cheap and you have loads of space to do what you want. Of course, there are also things I really hate about Berlin, starting with techno – I never got this music. I think electronic music is one of the biggest mistakes the world ever made.

Coming to New York and starting at Ryan’s studio on the first day was mind-blowing. I mean, I was eighteen or nineteen back then, and Ryan was my favourite photographer. It helped me a lot to find my own way. But if you work for a famous photographer, I believe the most important matter is to find the right time to leave and to do your own thing.

I think censorship is important but I don’t understand the guidelines of Instagram and company. Nudity is something that is in all of us; we were all born like that. Nipples are not allowed but almost any kind of violence is. I don’t understand that.

To be honest, there was a time where I shot so many editorials that I just wanted to never do that again – especially fashion. I hated fashion shootings. But for the past two years, I started loving to do that again. I think it is something that will keep changing.

Yes, but I don’t want to say much. There’s something coming out… My last book was launched in 2013, so there is a lot of work that needs to be shown.

I’m working on my first still-life exhibition – it will only feature still-lives, but it will be 100% me. But there’s a long way to get there.