Stefan Lenz is a PhD-physicist who did fundamental research at CERN and Jülich, a professional photographer and a skilled astrophotographer. Fascinated by the stars and astrophysics from early childhood on.
Stefan lives his passion and desire in many different ways: explaining children and teenagers at school the solar system and the miracles of the universe, spending nights outside watching shooting stars, while putting up the travel dobson to show interested folks the wonders of the galaxy. Or riding the racing bike all through a clear milkyway-lit summer-night - one of his alltime favourites.
Astrophotography is a different approach to creation for him. Namibia, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Canary Islands and Scotland are among his favourite places where he collects the light for his art. Most of his pictures can tell a unique story of how they were done and why, like the time in which he was forced to the balcony by the curfew during the pandemic, what resulted in a new fascination of what is feasable even at bortle 8 skies.
Nevertheless, it are the darkest places on Earth where he loves to be. And there always must be time for just looking up with the naked eyes - while the cameras and all equipment keep humming and buzzing, making these comforting noises that feel like home, thousands of miles away.
