PHILIPP TORNAU

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BIO

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Philipp Tornau creates documentary motives that already have an inherent 

abstract and artistic composition. Discovering these narrative moments and depicting them in contemporary photography is one of the most exciting métiers in life for him. In painting he loves to generate dynamics and to balance the weight of colourfulness, shape and structure in such a way that a higher harmony is created.

Born in 1972 in former West Berlin, Tornau traveled extensively around the world, spent a significant time in Indochina and lived in Barcelona for several years . He is currently based in Berlin and continues to spend extended periods of time abroad. 

On his journeys to over 50 countries, he absorbed countless impressions that he incorporated into his work as a cinematographer and director. Since 2000 he has successfully created moving images for cinema films, documentaries and hundreds of corporate films and commercials.          

With his work as a photographic artist and painter, in which he directs the viewer's gaze to a single moment, to a single unchangeable design, he achieves a new intensity of visual experience.