Thomas Struth on Documenting Invisible Systems

Lindsay Comstock | American Photo | 7th March 2017

Struth has had a long standing interest in complex systems. At first it was the street grids of big cities, then big museums, jungles, and now big technology. “The pictures of technology have to do with the mindset of entanglement and passions and failures … When someone gets obsessed with something [technological], he can’t look at himself with perspective.”