Wolfgang Tillmans has become one of the most prominent and influential photographers to emerge during the 1990′s. He profiles the lifestyles of his immediate circle of friends, working collaboratively with his subjects so that they lose their inhibitions in front of the camera. Tillmans produces raw, confessional images yet stays within the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape and still-life. His ability to produce powerful and sometimes shocking images has brought him success in art galleries and mainstream media alike.
Wolfgang Tillmans was born on 16 August 1968 in Remscheid, Germany. He lived and worked in Hamburg at the end of the 1980s before moving to London, England. He is the first artist working with photography at the center of his practice to have won the Turner Prize and, controversially, the first non-British citizen to have done so.

October 22, 2009 in Fine Art, Photography by Unknown Artist No Comments »