Author Description

Hansjörg Mayer has been taking photographs since the late 1950s and has been interested in structures and surfaces from the very beginning. But interestingly he does not compose them in a strict Bauhaus style, but rather records them en passant. He takes them with him.The incidental nature of his photography has become ever more facilitated, as lighter and faster digital cameras and smart phones have become available.A bizarre carrot is now just as likely to be one of his motifs as a post, bird droppings on a window or crumbling plaster on a wall. A form of photography comes into being, particularly on the artist