WOLFGANG STRASSL

…When I went to university, I put myself under a lot of pressure to succeed academically, and I lost photography a little bit. Later, it was sidelined, because I wanted to do well professionally. Photography was still with me through all those years, but I was using it like my dad, for the family album and on vacation. I wanted to make "good" pictures, but I didn't have any artistic purpose or meaning. I didn't feel like an artist, and didn't allow myself to be one. In my work I was a rational, structural, thinking person, and I kept my emotions controlled. In hindsight, I always felt that if I could choose again, I might have pursued a career in photography…... …I studied economics in Munich, went to Cambridge to do my Masters, and then returned to Munich to do a PhD. Eventually, I joined a reinsurance company. I wanted to work internationally, so it was a good place to be. I spent my entire professional life there, for nearly thirty years, and made a career of it. Not that I..

Primary location: München Germany