Reiner Frommer

Reiner Frommer was born in Berlin in 1938. After the severe bombing of the city in 1943, he spent his childhood in a village in Swabia before moving to Hesse, where his father owned a photographt business.

Reiner Frommer -  Fisherman, taxi driver, village clerk.. Central Finland 1961

After college and studies at the School of Photography (under Martha Hoepffner), Frommer started work in his father's company and as a freelance photographer.

In 1962 he met his Finnish wife Ann-Marie and in 1978 moved with her and the two children to Finland. 

Today they have three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and live on a farm in Helsinki with dogs, cats, alpacas and Icelandic horses.