Thomas Struth is a German photographer who orginally studied painting under Gerhard Richter. He turned to photography and this retrospective is, I believe, his first major exhibition in the UK. As you would exect from photos taken over a long period there is a wide range of different types of photo, from tourists dwarfed by the size of a cathedral, huge technology projects, black & white photos of quiet sheets, impenetrable jungles and portraits of family groups.
Struth seems to have two main interests, photos where people are shown to be tiny or absent, their place in the universe a very minor role, the epic photos of inpenatrable jungles or urban scenes; and family portraits. I enjoyed the exhibition especially those epic photos.
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