Rut Blees Luxemburg

German photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg - whose work has featured on albums by the Streets and Bloc Party - explores the public spaces of cities. Her work is published in a new book, Commonsensual, and features in an exhibition in London






The angles which she uses within her work I want to incorporate into my own work. She uses high up shots looking down and low down shots looking up. Her images show isolation, they do not show her as being part of the image but her removed from the subject. Her images show a sense of loneliness and isolation.

Luxemburg studied photography at London College of Communication and gained her last formal education at the University of Westminster. She employs long exposures to allows her to use the light emanating from the street only, for instance from office blocks or street lights in her photos.^[ Luxemburg created a series of images for the London Underground in 2007. Many of her photographs and prints deal with nocturnal themes.