Uwe Niggemeier

In the course of transcribing some interviews to pick up some extra cash from my mom (who runs an art-friendly transcription company) I listened to an interview with Uwe Niggemeier, a photographer from Germany who specializes in industrial photography. The focus is on metalworking factories: steel mills, iron mills, coke plants, etc. The photographs are shot either black-and-white or color on large or medium format cameras, and then scanned into a computer and printed digitally. The depth of field and strange lighting are interesting. I have a personal preference for the more abstract images, the ones that maybe lean more toward the aesthetic than the documentary. The site is navigable in German and English, and the photos are organized by location or by type of factory.