Gerd Hoffmann, in touch with photography for almost five decades, is a German engineer, and photographer living in  Saxony, Germany. Gerd studies automation system engineering and works as an international consultant in the power generation business.

He got his first camera in the middle of the 1970s at the age of twelve years and became an ardent photographer quickly. It was a fifteen years old second hand 35 mm viewfinder camera with interchangeable lenses. Beginning with Black & White negative film and followed later by colour slide film.

Years later he replaced the viewfinder into a brand new state of the art SLR camera with additional lenses and turned from Black & White negative to colour slide film. The high contrast, brilliant colours and high image resolution guaranteed stunning slideshows on numerous events.

In the new century, the time was right now and he consequently moved from analogue to digital photography. Darkrooms are a thing of the past and obsolete. Digital imaging is state of the art now. In this new and exciting generation of photography, he became inspired by the new advantage and challenge in the modern photographic age. The boundaries in creative photography are more open than ever before.

The passion for photography runs back in his family for a long time. “Gerd is an enthusiastic travel and landscape photographer. He likes to capture the beauty & magic of nature in our extraordinary, ordinary world…”.

The inspiration for his photographs comes from the places he visits and the people he meets.