Photographer #415: Thomas Locke Hobbs

Thomas Locke Hobbs, 1976, USA, is a photographer who has been based in Buenos Aires since 2008. Although his background is in economics and finance he decided to dedicate himself full-time to photography in 2008. He started following numerous workshops in order to further his technical skills as well as to define what photography is to him. Thomas works in a very exploratory manner, investigating the city he lives in from various different perspectives. His conceptual series are the work of an organized photographer who looks at the city as an outsider. His series Ochava Solstice is a collection of large format photographs showing the corners of numerous buildings. In the early 20th century the government mandated that buildings on corners in Buenos Aires have diagonal edges to improve visibility for cars. However, from the 1960's onwards, the economic imperatives of real estate development demanded maximum square footage. The ground floors are diagonal edge, the floors above have square edges. This way of building leaves a triangular shadow which tracks the sun as a sun dial would. The following images come from the series Ochava Solstice, Riverbank and Chalet Porteño.

Website: www.thomaslockehobbs.com

Photographer #222: Thomas Wrede

Thomas Wrede, 1963, Germany, released his book Anywhere in 2010. It contains images of the series Real Landscapes and Seascapes. In Real Landscapes Wrede plays with reality and perspectives. The large printed images show houses or cars in idealistic yet impossible landscapes. He achieves these mind triggering results with the use of models and a large format camera. A year earlier he released the book Manhattan / Picture Worlds in which he photographs billboards in a clever way, again playing with the ratios. A dialogue evolves between the billboards and their surroundings. The following images come from the series Real Landscapes, Am Meer / Seascapes and Small Worlds.

Website: www.thomas-wrede.de

Photographer #151: Thomas Rusch

Thomas Rusch, 1962, Germany, is a commercial and fine-art photographer. He has released an impressive amount of books, had many celebrities in front of his camera and has worked for big clients. Next to his fashion and advertisment photography Thomas focuses on personal projects. His most recent series Behind is currently featured in Eyemazing magazine. Images of people in masks, created with make-up and semi-transparent materials. The following images come from the series Behind, Unquentum Pharelis and his portfolio Portraits 2.

Website: www.thomasrusch.com & www.thomasrusch.org

Photographer #008: Thomas Kneubühler

Swiss born photographer Thomas Kneubühler, 1963, now living in Montreal, Canada, was fascinated by the mountains full of light that made night skiing possible. He made the surreal landscapes his subject matter. Night photography of mountains that radiate. He calls this series Electric Mountains.

Earlier he worked on a project called Office 2000. Again a landscape arises of surrealism, although it is very real. The pictures become abstract objects of repetition.

Website: www.thomaskneubuhler.com