Photographer Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig and completed his formal training at the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher. His large-format photographs capture the minutiae of modern-day experience and include a diverse range of global subjects, including the usage of resources, as shown here in the image of the Chao Phraya River, through whose mirror-like water surface the waste of the city of Bangkok becomes visible. His seductive images, which navigate a space between painting and photography, reject the notion of photographic truth and involve intense digital manipulation to achieve their dizzying details, rich color relationships, and sublime scale.