Artist Study 1

Tobias Kruse

Tobias Kruse was born in 1979 in Mecklenburg, Northeast Germany. He studied photography at “Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie”. Tobias Kruses work has been published in numerous magazines. Also , publishing his photographs in books by Steidl and Hatje Cantz. His first monograph was published by Kerber in 2019. He works and lives in Berlin.

His first monograph was published by Kerber in 2019. He works and lives in Berlin. In these quietly disturbing black-and-white photographs, Tobias Kruse confronts the unsettling first decade of East Germany after the fall of the Wall, including its Nazi past and present.

Sara Cuce

Sara Cucè is a London-based photographer and Fine Art printing specialist. Her work explores questions of identity, representation, perception, memory, and the environment; it unravels identity and subjectivity as something that is never complete. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout UK and Italy. 

Her work explores questions of identity, representation, perception, memory, and the environment; it unravels identity and subjectivity as something that is never complete, but always in process, and invariably formed from within.

Comparison

Both artists use black and white for their final outcomes of photographs, however Kruse uses portrait more often than not and Cuce uses landscape for a wider effect of photo.

Cuce mainly captures up close shots of landscapes whereas Kruse focuses on distanced shots.