Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer. His work varies from conceptual to experimental images. Perhaps his most famous work, "The Berlin Series" is a set of black-and-white photographs from 2002 that show the people and places found on New Year's Eve in Berlin.
Wolfgang Tillmans has been credited for his incredible photography throughout the years and awarded accordingly. His most notable achievement was the first non-British photographer to be the recipient of the Tate annual Turner Prize in 2000.
The artist currently lives and works between Berlin, Germany and London, United Kingdom. He has held exhibitions in the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Wolfgang Tillmans has been a photographer for about 30 years and still exclusively shoots with analog cameras. It wasn't until 2009 that he transitioned to digital photography, because of the higher quality it offers.
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"What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life."
-Wolfgang Tillmans
Tillmans has always been a clubber type and during his stay in Hamburg, he became very familiar with the party scene. Once he bought a camera and started taking pictures, Tillmans was influenced by the i-D magazine that he had previously only looked at as an observer.