14 Facts About Thomas Kellner

Thomas Kellner became known above all for his large-format photographs of famous architectural monuments, which, through many individual images and a shifted camera perspective, look like "photo mosaics".

From 1989 to 1996, Kellner studied Art and Social science at the University of Siegen to become a teacher.

At the chair of Professor Jurgen Konigs, a genuine "school of pinhole camera photography" developed at the University of Siegen's Department of Art, Thomas Kellner intensively studied the possibilities and limits of this technique.

Thomas Kellner worked with various noble printing processes such as silver gelatine and Gum bichromate.

In 1996, Thomas Kellner was awarded the Kodak Young Talent Award.

In 2004 Thomas Kellner initiated the project Photographers:Network in his hometown, an annual exhibition curated by him with changing themes and international artists.

In 2006 Thomas Kellner undertook extensive travels to the United States, Latin America, Syria and China, where he photographed famous monuments such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Boston Athenaeum, and the Great Wall of China in his special technique.

In 2012 Thomas Kellner travelled to Russia on behalf of RWE to work in Ekaterinburg and Perm to photograph industrial architecture.

Thomas Kellner photographed not only on site in Russia, but in the surrounding area of Siegen to capture the connection between the two regions in the processing of steel and metal.

Since 2004 Thomas Kellner is a member of the German Society for Photography.

When Thomas Kellner takes on a project, he makes sketches beforehand by dividing the object to be photographed into square sections and noting the planned camera settings for each section.

The first photograph Thomas Kellner created with this technique was an image of the Eiffel Tower, which he conceived as a homage to the Cubist artist Robert Delaunay.

Thomas Kellner took the typical cubist "multi-view" approach of the objects and developed it into the central design element of his photographs.

When Thomas Kellner traveled to Mexico in 2006 to photograph important buildings there, one critic noted that his photos looked very similar to those taken after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.