Career
Born in 1951 in Trier, Germany, he went on to collaborate closely in the 1970s with the artist Joseph Beuys, who was a key influence on his concept of photography, and thereafter with the French writer Hervé Guibert (1955-1991). He also helped to set up AIDA, an international human rights watch group for artists. Since the late 1980s Berger has become increasingly involved in a series of long-term photography projects looking at dimensions of the world religions.
On the Island of Elba (Italy) he has been involved since 1977 with the restoration of the Eremo di Santa Caterina, a former Franciscan friary, as an arts centre, and the creation of a botanical garden dedicated to the spontaneous flora of the Tuscan Arcipelago in 1994.
At the monastery"s medieval "Hortus Conclusus" he created a garden of ancient roses that over the years attracted a great number of artists, writers and gardeners.
