Born 1953 in Bonn, Germany. Studied and graduated in Cologne with a BA in Media and Imaging Technology (Photo Engineer). Through his professional career, starting with Polaroid Corporation, he developed a deep sense for the importance and influence of photography in visual communication. After living in Germany, with stations in the Netherlands and France, Zorn settled down in Japan as his permanent home in 1991, and is living among the people of Tokyo’s Kagurazaka since 2000.
In his work, he depicts the daily lives of the people of Kagurazaka with a keen and often humorous eye as seen in his book ”Kagurazaka Mignardises” Photographing the scenery by and of the sea in Japan and abroad are long term projects as shown in his “Naoshima Monochromes”.
Member of the Photographic Society of Japan