Franz Xaver Aicher (b. Rosenheim, Germany) is a self-taught photographer who grew up in the Bavarian Alps. That early proximity to mountains, ice and water is the origin of a practice built on sustained engagement with environments defined by physical extremity — water, ice, alpine terrain and open ocean.

His photographs move between landscape and reduction, treating these environments not as subject matter but as conditions of perception. His central body of work, ÆTERNA, is developed alongside the related series MELANOPHOS and OMOMAS.

Aicher's work has been exhibited internationally and published across a range of online platforms as well as the print journal Omnipages. He lives and works in [Rosenheim].

Artist statement - I work at the intersection of elemental landscape and photographic reduction, pursuing water, ice, alpine terrain and open ocean not as subject matter but as conditions of perception.

The resulting images are neither document nor abstraction. They occupy a space prior to classification: where light behaves as structure, surface dissolves into depth, and form is perpetually on the verge of becoming something else.

My central body of work, ÆTERNA, treats water as a philosophical material — unstable, reflective, time-saturated. I develop it alongside the related series MELANOPHOS and OMOMAS.