The Turner Prize-winning German photographer’s aesthetic precedes him. His stark, documentarian style and inventive gallery staging have become one of a handful of styles rigorously replicated in art schools across the country—the highest compliment a nascent image-maker could offer.
ARE PEOPLE EVER STARSTRUCK BY YOU? Very occasionally, but I’m good at not noticing it.
WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR? My obsession with astronomy.
WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE? The Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective at the British Film Institute in London was enlightening—I returned several times a week with friends to the same place.