Dark Silence In Suburbia

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Michael Wolf

Hong Kong

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Architecture of Density Scout Shots

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Night

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Corner Houses

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Back Door

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Life In The Cities

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Michael Wolf  lives in hong kong, born munich, germany
the focus of the german photographer michael wolf’s work is life in mega cities. many of his projects document the architecture and the  vernacular culture of metropolises. wolf grew up in canada, europe and the united states, studying at uc berkeley and at the folkwang school with otto steinert in essen, germany. he moved to hong kong in 1994 where he worked for 8 years as contract photographer for stern magazine.  since 2001, wolf has been focusing on his own projects, many of which have been published as books.
wolf’s work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the venice bienniale for architecture,  aperture gallery, new york;  museum centre vapriikki, tampere, finland, museum for work in hamburg, germany, hong kong shenzhen biennial, museum of contemporary photography, chicago.  his work is held in many permanent collections, including the metropolitan museum of art in new york, the brooklyn museum, the san jose museum of art, california; the museum of contemporary photography, chicago; museum folkwang, essen and the german museum for architecture, frankfurt.
he has won first prize in the world press photo award competition on two occasions (2005 & 2010) and an honorable mention (2011.)   in 2010, wolf was shortlisted for the prix pictet photography prize.
he has published more than 13 photo books including bottrop ebel 1976 (peperoni press 2012) tokyo  compression three (peperoni press/asia one 2012,) architecture of density (peperoni press/asia one 2012,)  hong kong corner houses  (hong kong university press, 2011)  portraits (superlabo, japan,2011)  tokyo  compression revisited (peperoni press/asia one 2011,) real fake art   (peperoni press/asia one 2011,)  fy  (peperoni press, 2010,)  a series of unfortunate events. (peperoni press, 2010,) tokyo  compression (peperoni press/asia one 2010,) hongkong inside outside (asia one/peperoni press 2009,) the transparent city (aperture 2008) and sitting in china (steidl 2002). (from artist website).

1 comment:

  1. wonderful!
    I love the city and the stories that are hidden inside ...

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