Rut Blees Luxemburg

Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German fine art photographer who only works using film. When she came for a talk at Burton college she was mostly just showing her photos and explaining her reasons behind it and how she took the photo. She showed all her street photography and showed the photos on slides rather than projection as she insisted the quality was better for film with the slides.
She mostly takes photos of landscapes and cities and finding art within the city. She took a lot of photos of chewing gum on the floor to try to take something ugly and turn it into something beautiful. She also took photos on 'vertigo' and finding high points to take photos straight down to feel the speed and excitement in being high and having the sensation of falling.

She also took photos of council estates which was later used as an album cover for the band 'The Streets'. She went on to explain how she found this interesting to see how art can exist in different levels, so not just in exhibitions, on albums, on posters and what different audiences will see the art through the different levels. 

She also took a lot of photos of reflections in puddles on the floor. As amazing as I find this as an image, I felt that she took too many shots of just puddles as they all look too similar which makes them dull as a series rather than the effect it makes as an individual image.