Gerhard Thomas Baier

For over three decades, photography has been an integral part of my life. My first professional camera was originally meant to serve a simple purpose: documenting the abstract paintings and design objects I created in our garage at home. It quickly became clear that there was more to it. It wasn't long before I found my way into an internship at an advertising photography studio, photo assisting, and freelance commission work.
With the rise of digital photography, working in the black-and-white darkroom gradually faded into the background and eventually disappeared into storage altogether. Digital screens became the medium, while real prints became rare and often of poor quality.
In 2016, my wish to produce my own prints again and to control the entire process myself became reality. With carbon printing, I began bringing my images to paper myself — without a darkroom, but with an inkjet printer modified specifically for this purpose. In this process, I print using pure carbon pigment across eight shades of grey, resulting in richly detailed, warm-toned prints with exceptional archival permanence.
The images grew larger and larger, and in autumn 2018 I was able to present my large-format prints in the exhibition “The Carbon Project”...

freelance art and people photographer

"the carbon project" 2018 Kunstverein Familie Montez ,Frankfurt/Main, Germany
"Mensch Gesichtet" 2014 Switchboard Frankfurt am Main / Germany