Between 1987 and 1997 he established himself as a photographer based in Hong Kong, represented by Contact Press Images (NY), from where he photographed on assignment across Asia. In 1993 he published the book "City of Darkness", a document of the final years of the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, in collaboration with Ian Lambot.

In 2002 he launched the picture agency documentCHINA, in collaboration with Fritz Hoffmann, an online archive specializing in contemporary photography from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Editorial Clients:
Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Businessweek, Forbes, Elle, Figaro, Paris Match, Stern, Der Spiegel, NY Times Magazine, and other magazines and newspapers worldwide.

Corporate Clients:
Ove Arup, Foster and Partners, K Plus K Architects HK, Thames Water, Solectron, United Airlines, Warner Lambert

Books:
"City of Darkness; Life in Kowloon Walled City"; Watermark Publications

Exhibitions:
Kwangju Biennale; Kwangju, South Korea, 1997
Cities on the Move; Hayward Gallery, London, 1999
Cities of the 21st Century; Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 2000
Cities on the Move; Kiasma, Helsinki, 2001
Kowloon Walled City, with Ian Lambot; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Gallery, New York, 2003
"Hong Kong-Shanghai"; Parallel Worlds, Lille, European Cultural Capital 2004.