Walter Wehner was born 1958 in Kusel Germany as a son of a press photographer and a darkroom technician. Already as a child, he considered the darkroom at home his favourite playground. Aged thirteen, he inherited his father´s Leica M2, allowing him to gather his first personal experiences with photography. Self-thaught, he worked during the mid 1980á as a freelance photographic assistant in Frankfurt/Main. In 1989, he began work as a freelance photographer in Munich. In 2001, he began to dedicate himself to the artistic production of his photographs; from 2005-2012 he regularly took part in group shows at Haus der Kunst as well as many other exhibitions.Walter Wehner is a member of FMDK Munich.