FOAM MAGAZINE #20 / TALENT / JULIAN FAULHABER

Julian Faulhaber

Julian Faulhaber was born in 1975 in Würzburg. He assisted commercial photographers in Frankfurt for two years before entering Art School at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences in 1999.

He won the Epson Art Photo Award in 2005 (Best Class) and the Art Cologne (Best Selected Works). 2008 was an important year for Julian Faulhaber; he was invited to participate in the New York Photo Festival, he held his first solo show in New York at the Hasted Hunt Gallery, participated in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts exhibition Reality Check that displayed his work alongside work by Gregory Crewdson, David Levinthal and Stephen Shore and was nominated for the KLM Paul Huf Award 2009.

Faulhaber’s images have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Damn Magazine, Departure Magazine, Stern and Geo and he will be part of the Prune – Abstracting Reality exhibition this autumn at Foam_Fotografiemuseum.

Since 2003 he has been working on his Lowdensitypolyethylene series, composed of images taken in newly built rooms - often offices or public spaces – before they have started to be used. Free as yet of any organic traces of human behaviour and presence, bathed in artificial light, the spaces seem utterly constructed and somewhat hyper-real.

All images ΠJulian Faulhaber, courtesy Hasted Hunt Gallery (New York), L.A Galerie (Frankfurt am Main).