Carsten Stormer

Born in 1973, Carsten initially wanted to become a ship captain but abandoned his training to become a shipping agent, bartender, and traveller. He nonetheless resolved to go into journalism, initially joining the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia and Burma’s Myanmar Times. He later studied journalism in Bremen and at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India before receiving a scholarship to the Günter Dahl school of feature reporting. He is a member of Zeitenspiegel Reportages. His pictures appear in international magazines such as stern, Focus, FHM, Maxim, Marie Claire, Rogue, SZ-Magazin, Cicero, NZZ, Der Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Rundschau.