At the moment

the work I am doing is splitted in 3 areas:

• Cultur- and Eventmanagement, Advertisement, Public Relation, Printed Press Work and Internetmarketing as registered Salesman, as head of my company "m wie mayer e.K."
  
  
• Independant Tutor, Seminarguide and free working Member at various universities, belonging to the national center of political education and the chamber of industrie and trade in the areas photografie, Digitale makeover and presentation, rhetorik, moderation and visualising
  
  
• Indepedant artworking in the areas photographie and media - installations, freeworking member at "Radio Fips Göppingen"

At the moment the classes and seminar area are taking the most time effort with a share of about 60 %, and I keep forcing in it.

I was born

in Oktober 1957 in the Pfalz and since 1959 I am living in Göppingen. Over the years I made several business trips to Berlin, Schwenningen and Nürnberg.

Photographie und Film making

have been my hobbies since 1969. The Foto-Club at school gave me my first impressions and foundation. Beginning with black & white we moved on to colour, from photographie we moved on to film making - first it was Super8, then 16mm and in 1980 manly Video.

With helping out on several amateur projects and short movies (we won several prizes at Festivals) I learned a whole lot about production, directing work, cutting and working with the various camera angles.

In 1985 I started working in small movie productions.

In 1987 I began working as a free professional. I worked in several adverisement agencies and movie productions as camera man, cutter and was in charge of the production. At some time I even had my own camera- and cutting equipment. With these I made many presentations and small advertisement movies for the production firms.

1988 started my enthusiasm with the 3D-Fotographie , which over the time got me further and further away from the video technic. After a couple of first tries with a "normal" camera and a special shifting technique, I finally decided to buy me a very expensive special edition camera produced by RBT. Up until today I am still working with it.

With time passing I added two 3D projectors, 9 Kodak slide projectors and special 3D-projection screens to my equipment.

Since 2001 I am also working in the art area, including photographie and projection. This work I showed on several occasions such as exhibitions, installations and other performances.

Travels

having my 3D camera by my side was the logical conclusion .

My very first trip, that lastet one week, took me to Ireland to try out my new 3D camera. Later on the trips lastet between 4 to 6 weeks. All together I travelled about 10.000 miles criss cross the "green island", not just to get the highlights together but also to get to know the people, the land and all the little details and to put together a 3D slideshow.

My second big adventure took place in Egypt in 1995.
Just like in all my trips before, I didn´t book all inclusive, nor did I travel with a tourist party. After a few more trips the 3D production "Egypt - 5000 years of art, mystic and legends" arose, which was first show in 2001 at the Arabian Nights event.

My new destination for a 3D show took me to Namibia. This destination did not come from out of the blue, as it was more by the inspiration of a very long friendship with Edgar Hälbich, a Namibian journalist, who is now living in Göpingen. With his support besides the 3D shows, there are also a book project and other accompaning events to come.

3D-Slide-Shows

became the new claimed goal of my passion in photographing.

Several 3D productions for fairs and exhibitions in 1994 after various visits to the "green island" lead to my first self produced 3D-Irland-Slideshow named "Irland pur". To begin we started with 3D impression without lyrics or impressions underlined by live music. Later on we developed shows with live spoken commentary, by live musicians or we took in bands that would underline the whole event and accompanied it.

In 1996 we made our first music production working close together with the Irish Folk Band GARIFIN from Hamburg. Falk-Andreas Eckhardt composed and arranged the songs the way I prescribed it and wanted the lyrics to be - absolutely unique for the planned show.

The music was published as "CELTIC VIEW". Up to nowadays you can get it at your music store or at AMAZON.de in the internet

( A few listening samples).

With this, specially for the show produced music evolved in 1996 out of the relativly simple slide show a new 3D-multi-visionshow with commentary and lyric text passages. With this new show I traveled criss cross Germany (even up to the far north city of Nordenham). Very often with a Irish-Folk-Band concert that followed. Additionally I had whiskey, brown bread and salmon for the culunary aspects in my magic back pack.

In 1999 we started the production of the new show. The subject was Egypt, and it was first shown 2001 in Göppingen as frame program of an Arabian Night with 9 projectors, throwing their pictures at 3 big screens, belly dancing, people telling tales and fairytales as also Falaffel and tea coming out of Samowar. From there on out all presentations have been concepted as "Events" - with belly dancing, fairytellers, tea, waterpipes and Falaffel or as a company event including expenditurable catering.

More pictures, reports and written press reports under: www.m-wie-mayer.de/referenzen

My professional career

started in precision engineering through my education as watch maker in Göppingen.

After finishing my education I went to Berlin for 3 years. Then I visited the master craftsman school in Schwenningen. In 1980 I was the youngest watch maker in Germany, that made his master craftsman degree. After 12 years being an independant owner of a jewlery store, I started working as a secure employed branch leader in Nürnberg and real estate agent in Göppingen.

With me taking on the job as product manager for audio - visual products ( slide projectors, screens and technical control pannels ) at the Comm-Tec Company in Uhingen, it built the bridge to photographie and projection.

Out of the "side job" productions and shows (look up under photographie) evolved the first main job theme events and company presentations. Over the time they more and more tended towards organizing concerts, festivals, music- and culture nights, city faires etc. Parallel to the above I started teaching the first courses on digital photografie, picture adaptation and presentation. I also work as Co-Trainer in the subjects moderation und visualisation. Nowadays this takes up to about 60% of my work.

In the future

next to the Namibia production I will of course carry on giving courses and seminars at the universities.

In 2006/2007 there will be a one year study course named "digital photographie" at the universities in Göppingen and Kirchheim. In 2007 we are planing on a 3-day photo inquiery and in 2008 we focus on a photo trip to Namibia. With this in mind and being responsible for the route and the smooth expiry I would like to travel for a few weeks through Namibia this spring and also start right away with the production of a 3D show about the land. The first pictures that I will take there will already be used for the promotion work for the university trip in the spring of 2008.

With the photos out of the university phototrip, I could put together a first version which would be at my disposal by 2008 for trade faires, promotion, meetings and events. Taking additional trips in all seasons, I could close up this production by the year 2009.

The main goal of course is an "Africa event" - I am talking about a 3D-slideshow on 3 screens that measure up to at least 12 x 3 meters and "Feeling" and frame program such as live music, art, wine and culinary treats.

Besides the very big events, I am also working on a smaller 3D-set up for presentations with 4 projectors up on a screen that fits smaller locations in schools and other educational facilities.

The side by side planned book with many pictures in 3D, also serves as advertisement for the events and will also be sold on the presentations.

The photo trip by the university of Kirchheim can also be used for other educational facilities or for readers trips in daily newspapers.

Uwe Mayer, 2006