Interview with Thomas Ruff
Over his nearly-four-decade-long career, noted photographer Thomas Ruff has dissected the constructs of various photography genres and formats, including portraiture, photograms, and landscapes. Toying with scale, image quality, color, and both analogue and digital technologies, his works shift the perception that photography captures objective realities. On the occasion of Ruff’s solo exhibition, “Transforming Photography” at David Zwirner Hong Kong, AAP sat down with the artist to discuss the ways in which the medium has been used as a tool in the past, as well as the different techniques manifest in the series on view.