Olaf Mueller
Hong Kong

Nominee

"Louis Koo"

Biography: Half Korean and half German, Olaf Mueller was born in Germany in 1980. Mueller juxtaposes conventional photographic methods with modern digital technologies to create surreal and visually potent compositions. The artist has developed a process which is both physical and digital: building pioneering theatrical shoot locations and later enhancing them through digital stitching and other technological processes to complement his concept and vision. As such there is a powerful duality at play between the real and the imagined, between conjured images and visual...