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