These pictures are from my first US project 'Surf Fiction' which I shot in 1997 and edited and self published as a book in 15 copies. Some of these also appeared in Taschen's compilation 'Contemporary German Photography' with the following text:

"After three months in windy and rainy London I am finally in Miami and I can't believe the feeling of palm trees, 100 degrees at night and the colorful neon lights. The only person on the beach standing in the water with pants and sneakers, camcorder, flash and a telephoto lense is me, but that doesn't seem to bother anybody other then myself. Later in a midsize Toyota in Los Angeles, the whole city is a living photography through which I am driving and occasionally stopping to take a picture - unnecessarily, because here everyone and everything photographs itself all the time anyway. Then nightime arrival in Las Vegas, incredible sea of lights, incredible heat the next morning. In contrast, the casino with dingy carpets, flower shirts and shorts on the strip, and the ugliest people downtown. But this truth if it is a truth at all is of no interest to me, because all I am interested in is the possibiltity of photographing a crystalline shining. Crystal Trash. I am fascinated by an obsessive, pyromaniacial picture production that creates sterile desire. I am interested in the striving for a perfect situation, in front and behind the camera. Later, on the beach, I wonder why everyone is smiling at me and why apperantly nobody considers me to be an annoying voyeur and wether my work doesn't have something to do with America after all."