Rut Blees Luxemburg

Luxemburg is a german photographer and artist and is a tutor at the Royal College of Art. Her woe explores the public areas of the city of London. she documents her work, by putting it in books or
galleries.
Her photography, Towering Inferno was used as the cover art for the streets debut album original pirate material. The photo depicts the beauty of a lit up a council tower block. She also contributed a modern project for use as the cover of Bloc party second album, A weekend in the city.
Her technique was to take photos at night, and the only light comes from man made sources. For example the council tower block was lit up by the peoples homes- showing who was awake and who was either asleep or out.
She uses these man made light sources to create a creepy connotation on her work.
Landscapes in her work are very subtle, they aren't the common "field and mountains". They consist of depth and buildings. In some of her work, she also uses paintings in the background. For example, the photo shown on this blog below is of a painting of a landscape and is built in to a photo of rails.

This is an example of her work. I really like this photo because it's almost as you look at it, it feels like you are falling. Even though it may be argued not to be a landscape. I would say that it is because a landscape is a photo of "all the visible features of an area of the land". You can see how she is stood on the side and corner of a building, then at the bottom presented with a car park. There seems to be a filter on this image and I really like it because it looks like it should below in a horror movie- i.e. Saw.

This is the image I was explaining above, the council tower block that she captured at night. I think it's a better photo because it was taken at night, you can see more into the building and the light up houses around the main central building. If this photo was taken during the day, I do not think it would have the same effect, your eyes wouldn't be as drawn to sections of the image compared to the image now.

This photo was also explained above, its a painted behind the bars. I really like this use of landscape because it shows view of London, yet the effect of the burn in the corner makes it seem "not real" or "not there". She has another one in this style, yet it has St. Paul's cathedral in the background instead. I also like the tone shown across the image.