At my workplace in the architectural office Grover&Patel in Baroda, Gujarat, India 1981
Picture postcard of my birthplace. I was born in May 1948 in a hotel room (white building) in the town of Daun in the Vulkaneifel.
Mother Any with Karl, the time-born between two sisters
Father Richard also proudly presents his son
Father Richard with his children Sigrid, Inge and Karl during the obligatory singing before Christmas presents
Sigrid and Karl playing the flute in front of the crib, around 1955
Looking for Easter eggs with sister Inge and cousin Fritz in her grandparents' garden, 1954
School enrollment day with my class at the elementary school in Daun, I am the boy in the 1st row on the far right, 1954
Summer camp of the George Scouts 1955
On the road in an Opel Rekord somewhere on a campsite in northern Italy
How an underclassman styles himself
Karl tries to earn a few marks with prints of photos from the last school ball, 1966
Group picture of my grammar school class at St. Matthias State Grammar School, 1967
Erste Polizeikontakte des Architekturstudenten als "Pressefotograf" bei den Demonstrationen gegen Badepreiserhöhungen in Braunschweig, 1968
Protest was also expressed through hair length
First attempts in medium format with a Rollei (borrowed from the Braunschweig Architecture Department), 1969
Indictment for trespassing and arrest warrant for failure to appear in court, 1970
Two police officers having their home searched for violation of §23 copyright law (photographing civil police officers), Hanover 1975
Photos of the attack against the construction fence of the Grohnde nuclear power plant, March 1977
Encounter at the camel market in Rajasthan, with photos of the Daun maars and Karl's birthplace
With Sister Inge on the 5,600 meter high Kalar Patar (my highest point on earth), Mount Everest in the background
Work on an Olympic swimming facility in Macau, office of the architectural firm of John Prescott, Hong Kong-Macau 1982
Heading north through the center of Australia to fly to Bali (and meet Jackie)
31. October 1983 on the island of Bali - my first meal together with Jackie: sticky rice in a banana leaf

Stages of a photographer's life

The pictures in this vita are limited to the time until we met Jackie on the island of Bali - after that we presented our years and projects together elsewhere. Karl Johaentges was born in Daun in 1948. After graduating from high school (1968) in Gerolstein, he moved to Hanover to study architecture. In 1981, after five years of working as an architect, the then 33-year-old ("It's now or never!") set off on a three-year trip around the world. The Internet was still unknown back then. In addition to various travel adventures with backpack and camera, Karl worked in India, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand in his learned profession. After the publication of "Bilder einer Weltreise" in 1985 and the founding of KaJo-Verlag, Karl and Jackie published a popular series of travel photo books that won several photo book awards. These volumes, which are also unmistakable due to their handwriting, reached a total circulation of a quarter of a million. In the mid-1990s, we sold the international book series and focused exclusively on local topics in the regional KaJo publishing house. By 2022, the career changer (often with co-publisher Jackie as author) had photographed a total of 50 high-quality illustrated books, both in-house and for major renowned illustrated book publishers. Reportages and photographs were also published in major magazines such as Stern, Geo, GeoSaison, Spiegel and Zeit-Magazin. Other important stages in Karl's career include the LOOK photo agency for photographers in Munich, which he founded with a dozen other colleagues in 1990 - and was able to sell to the Burda Media Group with the remaining shareholders in 2022 (just before the coronavirus pandemic). The Dauner was involved in the FREELENS association of photojournalists for almost a decade as a member of the board, advisory board and editorial team. With the illustrated book "Die Deutsche Autobahn" (Frederking & Thaler), the now 76-year-old ended his work as a professional photographer in 2022 and looks back on a fulfilled life in the "golden age" of reportage and travel photography. More information also on Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Johaentges