My name is Frank Röhrig. I am originally from Germany but I haven’t lived there for 25 years. I worked in a variety of weird and wonderful jobs including civil engineering surveyor, care worker for the elderly, car transfer driver, office clerk and jack-of-all-trades in farming wholesaling, even as an intensive care hospital nurse. I have also spent 20 years working with strategic enterprise business software. I have a degree but I never worked in the field I studied.

I always liked photos, art and pictures in general. I started with a Ricoh 10e in the late 80s and did my own b&w development to save costs. Back then there were only prints, slides and negatives. Those days are long gone.

Over the years photography became a much more complex exercise than pointing the camera and pressing the button. It became real-life stories with real people. It is a privilege to be allowed into people’s private lives and to share and record their experiences first-hand as they happen. This has been a great education for me.

I have since switched to film as a medium because it allows me to tell stories in a much more comprehensive way. Over the past 4 years, I worked on a film documentary about a transgender person in India. This piece is now finished and I will try to submit it to film festivals. Let’s see where that takes me. I also have some fiction projects going on that will be completed in summer this year.