Hans-Christian Schink

Hans-Christian Schink is one of the most renowned photographic artists of our time. His series “Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit” (German Unity Traffic Projects) and “1h,” which broke new ground in black-and-white photography, made photographic history.

Schink (born in 1961) studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. He was a scholarship holder at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, and the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. He has received prestigious awards, including the German Photobook Prize and the highly endowed REAL Photography Award.

“Is it possible to say less and yet say everything at the same time?” asks Mark Siemons in the FAZ, while Boris Hohmeyer, writing for “Art,” judges one of Schink's works to be “as austere and beautiful as a painting by Barnett Newman.”