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Henry Landers

While I was studying "Technology Watermanagement" to become an engineer I felt the deep impact of the themes that were touched upon. However, I also realized that my prospective occupation would not satisfy me adequately. It became clear very quickly that I would not be able to answer the questions of the greater relationships between geology, physics, technology in general, city infrastructures, people, and societies that the university studies generated inside of me as an engineer. As important as I find this job to be, I could not imagine to deal with the abovementioned questions working as an engineer. In a physics seminar I explored composition methods according to geometrical mass-gravity calculations of bodies. Later I found parallels in traditional Japanese ink paintings.

After a heavy motorcycle accident I discovered photography as a language that tapped into an unexpected dimension of communicability, which ruptured the inner silence that had haunted me until then. Following this new found language I soon won several prizes in photo competitions. My desire to become a photographer grew stronger and finally I gave in to my affection.

The writings of D.T. Suzuki on Zen-Buddism, especially his explanations of a schooling method called Koan, triggered an expansion of my strategy to win knowledge and awareness autoreferentially. Thus I developed my own iconography and explanation models, which can be seen in various freelance works as well as remittance jobs.

Professional History


2008	Member at the jury of Three, European
	Photo Competition: 40 Years Of EPSON Innovation /EPSON Head Office London
since 2000	Realization of "X Capitals"-Projects
2005	Instructor at the private Photoacademy
	Urbschat in Berlin, teaching Food-and Still
	Photography
since 2002	Graphic Design and Product Design
since 1991	Freelance Photographer, focus on Food, Still,
	Advertising, People
	Freelance Artist - Conceptual Art, Photogra-
	phy, Wood Sculpture, Sound Art and Writing
1989-90	Staff Photographer and Lab Assistant at
	Photo Studio Peter Lange in Berlin
1988	Lab Assistant at Fototechnische Werkstädte in
	Berlin: Portrait Atelier and repro lab
1986-88	Compulsory military service at the NVA (DDR)
	as sapper, air force
1982-86	Dispatcher, public utility company of water
	supply and waste water treatment
	(VEB Wasserversorgung und Abwasserbehandlung Berlin (WAB))


Education and Training

1997	Water gilding and Venetian gesso techniques
	of medieval European art crafts, with Regina
	Richter, Hamburg
1991	Degree in marketing, Institute for Marketing
	and Communication ( = IMK Berlin )
1988-90	Guest student, Humboldt University, Berlin,
	attending lectures in philosophy, psychology,
	epistemology, history of art
	Guest student, College of Fine Arts
	Weissensee/ Berlin ( = Kunsthochschule
	Weissensee ), history of design
1984-85	Student, technical engineering/water supply
	and distribution, University of Applied Sciences
	( = Fachhochschule ), Magdeburg


Personal Details

	Henry Landers born in Berlin
	His Birth name is Sven Henndrik Gruess

	Birth of daughter Stefanie Grüß in Berlin



Henry Landers