Christof Plümacher

Icetunnel, by Christof Pluemacher, 2007

Christof Pluemacher (also: Christof Plümacher) is an award winning German fine art photographer, born 1963 in Essen, Germany.

After he received a bachelor degree in business administration in 1986, his focus turned to photography, where he received a classic education through German fashion photographer Peter Godry. After years of assisting numerous advertising photographers and a successful career as a commercial producer in Los Angeles between 1995 to 2007, Pluemacher parted from the commercial world to focus solely on photography as an art form and expression. Since 2007, when Pluemacher first went public with his work as an artist, his work has won numerous nominations to prestigious international photography awards. In 2008, his work won a 2nd place at the Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes. In 2009, he was nominated a second time for the Sony World Photography Awards with a series of architecture images which opened a discourse between the aesthetics and the uglies of contemporary architecture in urban context. A series of abstractions of architecture earned him a nomination for the 2009 Hasselblad Masters. His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. In 2009, Pluemacher spent 6 months traveling across Africa to create a series of portraits that aim to renovate views on the African continent. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany and has one son.^[1]

Sources

1. ^ Christof Pluemacher - current work

• http://www.worldphotographyawards.org/downloads/press/SWPA%20Shortlist%2009%20Press%20release.pdf.
• http://www.os-informer.de/&menu=browser&mode=article&image_id=811352&article_id=641175&page=1
• http://px3.fr/winners/2009/userDetail.php?eid=1-9008-08&uid=3225881
• http://www.sony.de/res/attachment/file/83/1235736154283.pdf

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