Maik Gräf (*1986) studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the HFBK in Hamburg, where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2018. Gräf's work deals with queer theory and history and formulates questions about queer subjectivity.

His photographs address themes of bodily and emotional perception. His aim is to evoke emotions in viewers while conveying

the aspect of vulnerability through the use of the material. Based on the understanding of photography as a sensitive medium, the sensitive surfaces of analog photography form the working basis, which resembles human skin in their vulnerability.