Christoph Püschner was born in Münsterland in 1958 and he grew up in Herford in East Westphalia. Christoph completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman in 1977 and after his later studies at the University of Applied Sciences for Photo Design in Bielefeld he began working as a freelance photojournalist in November 1989.  Initially, Christoph worked in crisis and war reporting, social and travel reportage for German and European news and travel magazines. Working in teams with writing colleagues, he has covered Africa, the Middle East, Russia, the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, North America and Southeast Asia. After moving from the Cologne-based agency Laif to the Stuttgart-based agency Zeitenspiegel in 1999, Christoph mainly produce photo and video reports for aid organizations in addition to journalistic foreign reporting. www.pueschner-photographie.de