Benjamin Maier

Born in 1989 in Pfullendorf, Germany, Benjamin Maier lives and works in between Den Haag, The Netherlands and southern Germany. After working in several internationally acclaimed advertisement agencies as information architect, he turned towards the arts. In 2022, Maier completed a Bachelor study in photography at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag, The Netherlands.

Ben Maier frames his photographic practice as a visual economist. That is, his explorations via photography are rooted in the nefarious and uneven aspects of neoliberalism that clash with an equitable future. In his graduation project, Father as scale: Extractivism as economic necessity, Maier returned to his home region of southwest Germany where he explored the economic consequences of concrete production. Maier is able to, via his visual eclecticism, express the transformations of massive economic processes upon the human and their environment. He, while expressing an overt political stance, still allows dialogue to ensue, thus manifesting a cornucopia of dialogue, an important aspect in his work.