My career

I've loved photography since I was a little kid. I used to borrow my dad's camera until my 12th birthday, when my parents gave me my own camera. I've always loved taking pictures of nature and capturing moments on different trips to different countries. About a year before I started my exchange in Finland, I started to take photography more seriously and I've taught myself most of my knowledge by watching a lot of videos and contacting other photographers. My main motivation at the time was to photograph the Northern Lights in Finland. Now that I look back, it seems kind of funny; how did I go from wanting to photograph the northern lights to being a concert photographer?

I honestly have no idea how and why I wanted to photograph concerts, but when I mentioned it to my former host mother in early December 2023, she immediately thought of the local music club with a capacity of about 1200 people. So I emailed them. After a follow up email I got a pretty quick reply and was offered to choose a concert I wanted to photograph. Unfortunately, I was in the process of changing host families and had to wait until the end of January to ask them if I could photograph for them.

Long story short, the 3rd of March 2024 arrived and I had my first concert as a photographer. It was a very thrilling experience! I was very lucky that there were 3 other photographers, 1 of them being new as well, who could show me some tricks and help me with the computer to edit after the first 3 songs.

Now that I'm back in Switzerland, I am the photographer and social media manager for the local club, Scala Wetzikon, and volunteer as much as possible. I am also part of my school's photography team, for which I often take pictures of various school events.

I still do nature and night photography for when I don't have a concert shoot. My mind just calms down when I have a camera in my hands. Photography makes me so happy and I have the biggest smile on my face when I come home from a great shoot. I'm smiling just writing this.

Music is also a huge passion of mine. The first time I picked up a violin was in 2014. Since then I haven't been able to stop making music. I have done several competitions and level tests, taught myself to play other instruments and started singing (solo & choir) in January 2023. I think it's clear to say: I love music.