Mario Mutschlechner

As a retired industrial photographer from Cologne, Germany, based since 1967 in Mexico City, I used my craft for decades to document scenes and subjects in sharp, detailed and well lit images. Back in the seventies, when simulating views of other planets, I was looking for a different perception of reality and found it with infrared color film. Today I enjoy a creative freedom similar to that of a painter. With the right combination of photograph and digital manipulation I can create images that are a tribute to imagination and beauty.
Starting in 2019 I present on Saatchiart 16 collections as a synopsis of my photography, some digitally remastered and others digitally modified, for sale as archival inkjet prints in different sizes.

In Cologne I graduated in 1963 as a professional photographer and continued as assistant to the creative pioneer of industrial photography Ludwig Windstosser in Stuttgart. In 1967 I emigrated to Mexico City where I worked for 30 years in industry and architecture, among others for the leading Mexican copper mining and container transportation companies. From 2001 to 2007 I illustrated the gradual transition to robotic construction of cars at the Volkswagen plant in Puebla and shortly thereafter retired from assignment photography. During 15 years I continued to photograph, develop and design digitally the bilingual photo book "To die is to live in Mexico" on the Mexican Day of the Dead.

My industrial work generated no exhibits. It was published in annual reports, brochures and books by my clients, mainly mining, container transport, construction, automobile and pharmaceutical companies. Here I mention only one exhibit, which is not related to my assignment work:
" Paisajes planetarios " (Planetary landscapes) was exhibited in 1982 at the Museum for Sciences and the Arts in Mexico City. During the 11 years previous to my
assignment work I investigated and reported full time at and on NASA and ESA space centers on space technologies and on Man in weightlessness. " Paisajes Planetarios " was my reaction to the early exploration of the Solar System with NASA and ESA space space probes and unmanned vehicles. The exhibition simulated other planets captured on pristine, remote coasts of Mexico and was complemented with lectures by astronomers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on the scientific exploration of the Solar System.