Personal data

Martin Leissl, to be born in 1969, Wiesbaden

• 1987 − 1994
  Apprenticeship and employment as a merchant

• 1990
  First steps in photography and art work

• 1994
  hands on training at the photographer Monika Werneke, Wiesbaden

• 1995 − 1996
  portfolio preparation at the School for Design, Rheda-Wiedenbrück

• 1996 − 2000
  study of photography at university of applied science, Bielefeld.
  Main focus: photojournalism and journalistic portraits

• 2000 − 2001
  director of photography at German Newspaper ”Bielefelder Stadtblatt”

• 2001
  freelance photographer and photojournalist, represented by the photo agency VISUM