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Joachim Brohm

Joachim Brohm was born in 1955 in Dülken, Germany. Joachim attended Folkwang University of Essen in 1983 where he studied communications. He proceeded to study at the Ohio State University where he achieved his Master of Fine Art in the Department of Photography and Cinema. After completing his higher education, he began doing freelance photography as well as teaching at colleges such as Northern Illinois University, Salzburg College, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since the 1980’s his photography has been concentrated on urban life as well as the suburban perimeter. His photographs are all made with a medium format film camera. In terms of photographic style, Joachim takes many of his images from eye level aside from a few images, such parking lots to provide a sense of detachment. Most of the subjects in his photography are architecture and vehicles. For Joachim is is all about the detail of the photograph. He likes to incorporate people into the landscape in a very subtle way that doesn’t detract from the landscape being the main focus of the image. He had once said in a interview that he was fond of photographing the things that aren’t so grand or beautiful, but rather the secluded, accessible, and everyday things. His goal of photography is to bring visibility to the things that are “invisible” or not payed attention to. He is most known for his photo books Ohio and Ruhr. He had began photographing in Ohio in the 1980’s, however, his images didn’t become popular until 25 years later when he published them around 2007. He explained that his images didn’t become well known until years later because people weren’t ready to look at his work and that no one in the 80’s or 90’s were interested in the type of subjects he was photographing.