Agata Mayer - born in the early 1980s, is a Polish photographer and essayist. She began her career as a fashion photographer for advertising and lifestyle magazines. Her work has been featured in Polish and foreign publications, and has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and the US. She has won many competitions.
After almost a decade in the fashion industry, she turned to documentary photography, where she focuses on long-term projects, looking at the condition of modern man, his decisions and his impact on his surroundings.
She regularly appears in print magazines, mainly covering topics related to photography. Her essays have been published in "Forbes Women," "L'Eclat," "Newsweek," "&Living," "Midnight Seed" and "Book of Luxury," among others. From 2014 to 2021, she co-founded "Label" magazine.
She is the first Polish photographer to officially, in 2019, transfer the contemporary Scandinavian trend of crime novels and films - Nordic Noir - into photographs. In 2023, she was honored by the Center for Contemporary Art for this project. Since 2013 she has been permanently living and working in Stockholm, visiting Warsaw regularly.