Wolfgang Tillmans

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is celebrated for his innovative and investigative photography and its engagement with contemporary social critique. Paper Drop (Friend) (2007) belongs to a series of images of sheets of thin photographic paper which, when folded and viewed from the side, form three-dimensional teardrop-like shapes. Through this transdimensional exploration, Tillmans questions the very nature of photography by bending light and shadow to create illusions of materiality.