Jürgen Sieker

Born in 1949 and raised in Karlsruhe, Germany, the photographer discovered his passion for photography at a very early age. His first photo series were taken in the 70s. At this time he mainly photographed cultural landscapes. Gradually, however, he began to focus on people, increasingly also on prominent personalities. With his camera, he came astonishingly close to Willy Brandt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Naomi Campbell and Nina Hagen, among others, and showed the famous faces as unadulterated and personal as hardly any photographer before him. For the first time some of the stars were ready to face a photographer's rather critical, expressive approach. The photographs published in 1993 in the illustrated book "famous faces" show "wrinkles, folds, distortions, which one would otherwise not see. Lived life." ('Die Zeit', 25 March 1994). For the first time, some of the stars were willing to face a photographer's more critical, expressiveness-oriented approach. The photographs, published in 1993 in the coffee-table book "famous faces," show "wrinkles, folds, distortions you don't usually get to see. Lived life." ("Die Zeit," March 25, 1994).