Artist Research: Hilla and Bernd Becher

These works by the married duo of Bernd and Hilla Becher, both German photographers, are synonymous with the majority of the couples work. They like to photograph industrial areas, often specific pieces of industrial architecture such as pitheads, cooling towers, and oil refineries. An interesting working style is a key characteristic of their projects, photographing the same subject, in the same conditions, in an identical set-up to produce a series of images that present their object of focus free from any other influence in the scene.