Ralf Tooten born 1958 in Homberg, Germany
Fascinated by the aesthetics of visual encounters and the personal radiance of human beings, Ralf Tooten has placed the main focus of his work as a photographer on portrait photography. He has worked for prominent magazines, publishers, galleries and art exhibitions/projects as well as a still-photographer in several film productions. Ralf won the 1996’s Fifth Polaroid Fine Arts Award in London, UK as well as the distinguished Hasselblad Master Award in Goteborg, Sweden in 2003.
Since 2005, he has simultaneously worked on two new series, A.W.C. and Bangkok Noir, in which the latter is in collaboration with Roger Willemsen and S.Fischer Verlag/Frankfurt and is to be launched in early 2009. Ralf lives and works in Bangkok.
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