Thomas Ruff counts as one of the most influential contemporary photo artists who studied photography at the Duesseldorf Art Academy with Hilla and Bernd Becher. He became intenationally famous in the late 1980s through his large-format portraits. With series such as 'jpegs', 'nudes', 'interieurs', 'streets', 'stars' or 'm.a.r.s' he always tried to expand the medium of photograp...