Rainer Mirau was born in 1976 in Vienna and has lived since his early childhood in Baden, an idyllic small town on the edge of the Vienna Forest. In his youth, he used to travel with a backpack and a tent. Now, he is often on the road in his camping van in the Alps and in Northern Europe. His interest in landscape photography was awakened by first trips to Scandinavia. With his father‘s Olympus OM-1 and through studying various books by photographers such as Andreas Feininger, Ansel Adams or Fritz Pölking, he learned the rules of photography time after time.