Contacts Season 2, Episode 8: Thomas Ruff

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle is a visual artist, photographer, writer and director. His job is to make his life, especially the most intimate moments, his work using all possible media (books, photos, videos, films, performances...).

Nan Goldin

For the first time in thirteen minutes of a monologue of raw truth, Nan Goldin tells herself in “Contacts” what binds her to her images.

Duane Michals

Sarah Moon

A fashion and advertising photographer since 1968, she very quickly won praise and prizes in Paris, London, New York and Tokyo, where her exhibitions were highly acclaimed.

Nobuyoshi Araki

The city, the women, the sky and the flowers seen by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

After studying economics at Rikkyo Saint-Paul's University in Tokyo, Sugimoto left Japan in 1970 to study photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.

Andreas Gursky

The exhibition "Photography in Düsseldorf" traces the history of German photographic objectivity from the 1970s to the present day.

Jeff Wall

A resolutely modern photographic art.

Lewis Baltz

Focus on industrial society and its evolution since the end of the 1960s.

Jean-Marc Bustamante

The first photos of the artist date from 1974. He treats his prints like paintings.