Thomas Struth
Born in 1954 in Geldern, Germany, Thomas Struth is one of the most well-known contemporary German photographers. He studied at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. He won the Spectrum-International Prize for Photograph of the Foundation of Lower Saxony in 1997 and the Werner Mantz Prize for Photography in 1992. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions including Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, the Venice Biennale in 1990, and Documenta IX in 1992. In 2010-2012 a major traveling retrospective of Struth’s work was exhibited at the Museu Serralves, Portugal; the K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland. In 2014 he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Struth currently lives and works in Berlin.
Thomas Struth is featured in Edition: Paradise Found