Dutch artist and photographer Maarten Rots.

Dutch | b. 1941 | Photography
Known for his topographic landscape photography, Wout Berger helped shape a more detached and technically precise approach to Dutch photography. Working with a view camera and elevated viewpoints, he created images that explore landscape, space, and the visual impact of the everyday.
Wout Berger. | ZERP Galerie

Jochen Lempert is a photographer with a background in biology. That shows in his work. Lempert's images look like formal renderings of a man viewing the world with a scientifically formal gaze.

But Lempert's images are a lesson in looking.

The picture is called Plastic Bag, yet you are looking at a transparent mushroom, or is it a jellyfish? A wall with 47 different species of  Great Auk (he wants to photograph all the species in the world) shows a scientific collection. You start looking at details you would not have observed. A close-up of a plant what could also be the plumage of a bird, or is it?

Some time ago I shared some work of Blake Andrews here. Blake is also a participant in photographic grid projects. The basic idea about a grid project is to divide the map of an area into squares, and then systematically go make pictures in these squares. Ideally multiple photographer participate, thus creating a body of work that varies in style.

When he lived Portland, Blake Andrews participated in the Portland Grid Project. And after moving to Eugene, he started a Eugene Grid Project. There is a link on his site here. But unfortunately it points to an unknown web address.

The vernacularity of the pictures produced in these projects is refreshing and inspiring.

American photographer Doug Dubois.