Photographer #198: Jeff Brouws

Jeff Brouws, 1955, USA, is a landscape photographer. He has compiled a visual survey of America's evolving rural, urban and suburban cultural landscapes. Jeff might be best known for his typologies in which he indexes the character of the USA. Throughout his career he has focused on many aspects of the urbanized landscape such as highways, gas stations, McDonalds and other franchise signs and much more. Jeff has released seven books with his work and has exhibited extensively for the past several decades. The following images come from the series Discarded Landscape, Franchised Landscape and Highway Landscape.

Website: www.jeffbrouws.com

Photographer #100: Tim Simmons

Tim Simmons, Great-Britain, 1955, is a photographer producing large-scale landscape images. He works on a large format camera with artificial lighting, which gives the images a surreal, other worldly quality. His work has been exhibited and published extensively in recent years. The body of work he has developed over the last ten years is the result of a personal exploration of landscape in the context of the profound mystery of our existence. The following images come from the series Quarry, Snow and Arizona.

Website: www.timsimmons.co.uk

Photographer #096: Josef Hoflehner

Josef Hoflehner, Austria, 1955, is a landscape photographer. Josef shoots black and white images traveling all over the world from Dubai to China and from the USA to Iceland. He has a large number of books published throughout his career. In 2009 his book Jet Airliner came out. Bizarre photographs of airplanes flying over people and streets while landing at St. Maartens, Dutch West Indies. Also in 2009 a book called China was published. The following images are from the series Jet Airliner, China and California.

Website: www.josefhoflehner.com

Photographer #073: Ferit Kuyas

Ferit Kuyas', Turkey, 1955, latests book Chongqing, City of Ambition was released in 2009. It is a series of photographs on one of the largest cities in the world, Chongqing, China. It is the city where his parents-in-law live. He stayed in the city that counts 32 million inhabitants on various occasions where he focused on the periphery of the city where the enormity might not be seen but rather felt. There is a natural haze in his images (although intensified by pollution). He feels the city is a metaphor for the current developments in China. The following images come from the series City of Ambition, Chinese Smokers and Shanghai Memories.

Website: www.feritkuyas.com

Photographer #070: Hans van der Meer

Dutch photographer Hans van der Meer, 1955, has been a professional photographer since the 1970's. In 1995 he started taking pictures of low division amateur football games. This resulted in books as Keepers and Dutch Fields. After covering the Dutch football fields, he moved on to the rest of Europe. These images were released in the book European Fields which came out in several languages. It has become a large archive of landscape photographs.

Website: www.hansvandermeer.nl