Original sentence: 1973, Stuttgart, Germany) is a landscape photographer based in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, USA.Artforum review, April, 2006.He is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery in Santa Monica, California.He participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.He uses a combination of traditional photographic techniques and computer imaging.His work features in several important public collections including the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Saatchi Gallery in London.Maier-Aichen studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, the University of Essen in Germany, and at the Hoegskolan for Fotografi och Film Gothenborg in Sweden
Edited sentence: 1973, Stuttgart, Germany) is an artist based in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, USA.Adopting his process as a means to ‘draw with light’, his photos blur fact and fiction, archiving ‘evidence’ of a rapidly changing planet.Conceiving the representation of sites with a sense of dislocation, Maier-Aichen’s work addresses issues of globalisation and virtual perception.Florian Maier-Aichen is a landscape photographer.He is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery  in Santa Monica, California.His work features in several important public collections including the Denver Art Museum , the Museum of Contemporary Art  in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center  in Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art  in New York, and the Saatchi Gallery  in London.Landmarks are removed from cities to render them anonymous as they’re engulfed by strange geometric clouds or inexplicable lighting effects, while forests and mountain tops are tinted and manipulated to imply otherworldly terrains or toxic geographies.Maier-Aichen studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, the University of Essen  in Germany, and at the Hoegskolan for Fotografi och Film Gothenborg  in Sweden.Maier-Aichen’s photographs resemble the types of images associated with tourism and travel.Often shot at obscure angles or from aerial views, his estranged vantage points are both alien and familiar.Subverting the expected documentary quality of photography, Maier-Aichen approaches his medium as a form of painterly illusion.Using a combination of traditional photographic techniques and computer imaging, Maier-Aichen slightly alters each image to heighten the tension within the depicted space