About me
About me
About me

Hey, thanks for stopping by. I'm Henry Landers, born and raised in Berlin. I didn't become an artist right away, and didn't even know what it meant to be an artist back then.

After a serious motorbike accident at the age of 19, I discovered photography as a language. The inner silence of my childhood and youth dissolved. I began to take photographs, just as cavemen once painted their drawings on stone to recognize the invisible, to reassure themselves of their place in the world, to remember the past, and to anticipate the future.

During my engineering studies in "Water Management Technology," I learned to think on a geological scale in the subject of hydrogeology. I became more familiar with inanimate mineral rock. I also learned to think on a large scale when I worked for several years in the urban water supply infrastructure of a large city, in the administration of the Berlin waterworks.

However, I also had to complete 1.5 years of compulsory military service as a construction pioneer with the NVA in Potsdam. This experience significantly changed my perception of what people are willing to do. But this time also showed me how fragile and vulnerable the civilian sphere is and how much it needs to be protected.

Immediately afterward, I left the state-owned economic world of urban infrastructure and became a black-and-white photo lab technician and photographer.

Then events came thick and fast. Eighteen months later, the Berlin Wall fell. The world became bigger and the possibilities were almost limitless. I became a marketing specialist and advertising photographer, lived in Berlin, Hamburg and Italy, but later returned to Berlin.

As a photographic artist, I travelled the world and gathered impressions from many cultures, which now flow into my fictional worlds. Writing, however, opened up many worlds full of stories for me in a way that photography never could.

I love walking through the Humboldt Grove every morning, which allowed me to discover the three main characters of my novels and the fantastic world of the Tamanaken – and, incidentally, to establish a connection to Alexander von Humboldt.


Hey, thanks for stopping by. I'm Henry Landers, born and raised in Berlin. I didn't become an artist right away, and didn't even know what it meant to be an artist back then.

After a serious motorbike accident at the age of 19, I discovered photography as a language. The inner silence of my childhood and youth dissolved. I began to take photographs, just as cavemen once painted their drawings on stone to recognize the invisible, to reassure themselves of their place in the world, to remember the past, and to anticipate the future.

During my engineering studies in "Water Management Technology," I learned to think on a geological scale in the subject of hydrogeology. I became more familiar with inanimate mineral rock. I also learned to think on a large scale when I worked for several years in the urban water supply infrastructure of a large city, in the administration of the Berlin waterworks.

However, I also had to complete 1.5 years of compulsory military service as a construction pioneer with the NVA in Potsdam. This experience significantly changed my perception of what people are willing to do. But this time also showed me how fragile and vulnerable the civilian sphere is and how much it needs to be protected.

Immediately afterward, I left the state-owned economic world of urban infrastructure and became a black-and-white photo lab technician and photographer.

Then events came thick and fast. Eighteen months later, the Berlin Wall fell. The world became bigger and the possibilities were almost limitless. I became a marketing specialist and advertising photographer, lived in Berlin, Hamburg and Italy, but later returned to Berlin.

As a photographic artist, I travelled the world and gathered impressions from many cultures, which now flow into my fictional worlds. Writing, however, opened up many worlds full of stories for me in a way that photography never could.

I love walking through the Humboldt Grove every morning, which allowed me to discover the three main characters of my novels and the fantastic world of the Tamanaken – and, incidentally, to establish a connection to Alexander von Humboldt.