Biography
 Johannes was born in Cologne, Germany, on 16/12/1965
and spent five years at a boarding school in England where he
started with photography as a main hobby.
Since the age of sixteen Johannes has been living in
Israel, doing regular military service, and completed a B.A. in
English Literature at Bar Ilan University.
Johannes started diving in 1997, and immediately
took up underwater photography. Johannes started off with a Nikonos
V, which still serves him well today. Johannes has not yet made the
plunge into the digital camera realm, and still relies on a Nikon F5
in a recently acquired Seacam housing.
Johannes soon realized that good underwater
photography demands good diving skills and so did the Divemaster
course. Recently Johannes completed the E.R. technical diving
course. Johannes believes combining the equipment intensive activity
of technical diving with underwater photography is still a
challenge.
Johannes personal preferences remain in the
photography of marine life, and wrecks.
Johannes welcomes any enterprise that promotes the
conservation of endangered marine life as a priority goal. In this
aspect Johannes finds the efforts of protecting sharks, and
particularly the Great White, especially important because their
reputation rests so heavily on prejudices and
misconceptions. |