Born and raised in East Berlin, Gordon Muehle discovered his passion for photography at the tender age of 6, when he got a plastic 6x6 camera for his birthday. Printing his own black and white photographs when he was 11, it was soon very clear to him that he was destined to become a professional photographer.

It was in 1991, after being inspired by the work of David Hockney, that he started photographing his own collages, discovering the endless possibilities photo collages had to offer; playing with room, time, shapes and colors. First working on regular film and putting together 10x15cm prints, he began using Polaroid SX-70 and 600 film in 2000.
Since Polaroid never gave the the photographers the ability to fully control the outcome of their Polaroid 600 film, Gordon Muehle decided to build his own Polaroid camera, a two year undertaking. This camera enables him to take extreme close up shots and control shutter speeds, aperatures and lighting for his pictures, all this at a quality being unusual to Polaroid 600.

The new series, "Heroes" (all 10x10 Polaroids, making it 100 individual shots per collage) shows portraits of people who have inspired and influenced Gordon Muehle growing up.