Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand is known for making photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces. Demand began his career as a sculptor. In 1993, he began to use photography to record his elaborate, life-sized paper-and-cardboard constructions of environments and interior spaces, and soon started to create constructions for the sole purpose of photographing them. The photograph he takes of this model is the final stage of his work, and it is only this image that is exhibited, not the models. On the contrary, Demand destroys his “life-size environments" after he has photographed them. The subjects represented in Demand’s photographs often relate to pre-existing press images showing scenes of cultural or political relevance. Because he is working from models, the absence of people in his photographs is conspicuous and thematic.

I love the absence of people in Demands models, they look like the creation of film sets.

These sets and images are similar to the type of work that I am creating; empty haunting scenes where the viewing gets enticed into. I like how the viewer can create their own narrative by walking around the space of the scene through their own imaginary.