‘(No) Trust in Photography: From Stellar Negatives to War Algorithms’ by Nicolas Vamvouklis
2026
Thomas Ruff is among the artists who most profoundly changed how we think about photography. Rising to international prominence in the late 1980s, he moved beyond documentary objectivity to explore how images are constructed and ultimately believed. Across nearly four decades, his work has taken many forms, yet it has remained grounded in a sustained inquiry in what he calls the “grammar of photography.” What distinguishes him is not only his formal precision, but the clarity with which he has exposed the medium’s unstable relation to truth. Generous and direct in conversation, he reflects on technology, politics, and the strange authority pictures continue to hold.
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