helmut kraus

1961 born in Düsseldorf, Germany

Lives and works in Düsseldorf

as of 1979	study Philosophy and German
as of 1989	founding and handling of the design office exclam! since then design projects as well as freelance journalistic, publicist and photographic works
as of 1997	nautical education for yachting (SBF Binnen, SBF See, SKS, SSS, SHS)
as of 2002	long-term trips in North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea
2008	founding of 2K Yachting
2015	appointment to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, DGPh