With his photography, Richard Mayr, born in 1952, follows a long-standing family tradition that spans generations.

He started travel photography in 1974 and is still traveling in various countries. Landscapes and wildlife are his favorite motifs.

As a set photographer for RAN film under Alfred Ninaus, he has been involved in numerous film productions and in the course of this work has written three illustrated volumes, "the Styrian Wechselland", "Myth of Ausseerland", "Wild Water, Steep Summit". This fruitful collaboration will be continued in the future.

Since photography means "painting with light", it is obvious to think of painting. Mayr follows a saying by the romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich: "Not to paint what you see in front of you, when you see nothing inside yourself."