Way back in the early 1990s, he was one of the very first photographers to employ new technologies to digitally manipulate his work. He began to experiment with enhancing the illusion of space in his images by stitching together photographs of his chosen subject taken from subtly different angles or positions. 

I’ve visited the Hayward Gallery for the reopen to see the exhibition of the incredible Andreas Gursky. The incredibles details in his photos got me completely!

Gursky makes photographs that frequently exceed three metres in length when printed – and that’s nothing compared to the illusory space he manages to cram into the image itself.

Gursky’s photographs are not only capable of conveying distance, but also remarkable detail for images printed at their size. These super sharp images are are created by using a large format film camera. This means that the space onto which the image is captured is significantly larger, thus allowing more detail to be captured.