PEOPLE I MET

THIS SERIES IS AN ONGOING PASSION PROJECT THAT CONSISTS OF PORTRAITS OF
AWARD WINNING INDIVIDUALS RELATED TO THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS INDUSTRY

They are researchers who push the boundaries of technology. They are artists who use technology to mesmerize us with their stunning art and they are directors who shape our society with their characters and stories. Some of them are academy award winners, some of them are not. But they all have one thing in common. They are unstoppably curious and passionate about their work. From bringing the Simpsons to life, inventing the HDRI, the first commercial path tracing rendering system or building the first 360° cameras that were sent to outer space.

What fascinates me most about these people is not only how smart they are and how big the impact of their work on the world of computer graphics is. I love how humble and down to earth they are, while still being extraordinarily creative. From having worked in a supermarket when they were young and being addicted to ice cream, to shooting underwater pictures of the 4th of July fireworks or building snake robots in their spare time.

With my pictures I aim to show these people as raw and honest as I perceive them.

SKIP RIZZO, head of the medical VR lab of the Institute of Creative Technologies of USC on his Harley in Playa del Rey, August 2019.

COURTNEY STARRETT, associate professor in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University and 2019 ACM Siggraph emerging technologies chair on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, March 2019.

Artist, musician, philomath, researcher and Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Winner MEMO AKTEN during TOCAME design conference in Munich, March 2019.

MARCOS FAJARDO, academy award winner, software architect and creator of the first commercial path tracing rendering system called Arnold in Milano, May 2019.

Academy Award winner, researcher, and inventor of the IBL and HDRI technologies PAUL DEBEVEC shooting lightfields at Technik Museum Speyer in Germany, April 2019.

DAVID SILVERMAN, animator and director, involved with The Simpsons since 1987, director of The Simpsons Movie and other films, playing his tuba on a private party in Hollywood, August 2019.

KEN PERLIN, Academy Award winner, godfather of computer graphics and professor at NYU posing in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center during Siggraph 2019, the world’s biggest conference on computer graphics.

DAVID O'REILLY, award winning artist, film maker and game developer at Mouvo Motion Design Festival 2020 in Prague.

DORON FRIEDMAN, professor for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) and head of the Advanced Reality Lab at IDC Herzliya in Israel on a hike in the Mitzpe Ramon Crater in Israel's Negev Desert, May 2019.

Award winning designer, creative technologist and critical maker who works at the intersection of fashion, architecture and interactive design BEHNAZ FARAHI at Siggraph, the worlds biggest conference on computer graphics in LA 2019.

SIMON HOLMEDAL, award winning and leading artist in the field of procedural motion design in the Bavarian Alps, summer 2018.

SEBASTIAN SYLWAN, reknown Visual Effects and Digital Media Technology Executive having a break in a park in Milan, May 2019.

ELISABETH PATTE, former animation director who was involved with the Minions for about 10 years since the first Dispicable Me movie and is now commercial director at Illumination Entertainmentin in LA. This picture is taken in Venice, California in summer 2019.

PEOPLE I MET

This series is an ongoing passion project that consists of portraits of AWARD WINNING individuals related to the computer graphics industry.

PEOPLE I MET