Todd Eberle has photographed the world’s most influential artists, designers, architects, and politicians. His approach: “I try to make a photograph that describes as much about that person as I can in one or more images, so it becomes a ‘text’ in visual form on that person,” he tells Co.Design.
Over the years, design icons like Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Philip Johnson, David Adjaye, Rem Koolhaas, Florence Knoll, Tadao Ando, and Zaha Hadid have passed in front of Eberle’s lens. His portraits tell stories about creativity in a way that just seeing their work can’t communicate.
“I’ve always been interested in the people who make and/or live in worlds that are uniquely their own, and my photographs celebrate that certain individualism in making, commissioning, or living in distinct environments,” Eberle says. “I think of most of them as artists who work in structure, objects, and space instead of the traditional perception that artists put paint on a canvas. So in a sense, maybe my photographs become canvases.”
See a selection of Eberle’s portraits in the slideshow above and visit wuho.architecture.woodbury.edu for more about his exhibition.