At Kunstakademie Dusseldorf Josef Schulz studied under Bernd Becher and Thomas Ruff, two renowned figures in German photography. Josef Schulz is a new artist who has made a contribution in the German contemporary photography lineage.

If artists who precede him had made icons of modern society through their photographic works on architecture, then the rigid and limited form and colour shown in buildings that are displayed in Josef Schulz’s work makes us think of painterly work on the buildings’ surface and its lines. The objects shown in his photographic works are those from a fourth dimension, and here only the building in its pure form and its setting remain. Everything which hints the building’s name, the people who use the building, passing vehicles and time itself is all removed.

For Josef Schulz, the pressing of the shutter is not the last. He takes photographs in an analogue method, and then with digital technology he makes the subjects in his work to be more structural and abstract. This method itself is an artistic ‘act’ and it is only after going through this process that he believes his work can be regarded as a perfect piece of art work.