Southbank Centre Trip - Andreas Gursky Exhibition

On the 15th of march as a class we visited the Southbank Centre building in London, holding an exhibition for the german photographer, Andreas Gursky. From the trip I learnt that Gursky is probably best known today as a chronicler of a global economy, who travels the world and photographs truly eye-opening, epic spaces that document and define the present era. By saying chronicler I mean he is someone who documents important events. When we got into the exhibition you saw a really large selection of his images, that were shown on the walls of the gallery in such a huge scale. Since the 1980's Andreas Gursky has been taking photographs on a great large scale, often landscape photographs, using a distant perspective. I read that he had discovered that only by taking in the wider surroundings does it become clear how people behave towards nature and their surrounding.