Thomas Ruff

Born Feb 10, 1958

Thomas Ruff is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images".
Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German photographers Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky and Axel Hütte. The studio, a former municipal electricity station, includes a basement gallery.
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“Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.”

Thomas Ruff

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