Photographer from the US Cheryle St. Onge.
Simone Nieweg
Via the detour of the Düsseldorf Schule I found Simone Nieweg. Of course I was familiar with Gursky and Struth, but Nieweg was unknown to me. Her work distinguishes a bit from the other Düsseldorfers. Nieweg’s subject matter is rural, nature, trees and plants, and her view is somehow introvert, as opposed to most Dusseldorfers who have this extravert, grand expression in their work. Nieweg makes a picture of a cabbage, a shed and a forest.
Jochen Lempert
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?
