The photo artist Harf Zimmermann, born in Dresden in 1955, lives and works in Berlin. After studying Photography with Professor Arno Fischer at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig in 1987, Zimmermann began his career photographing for international magazines, industry and advertising, and in 1990 became a founding member of the OSTKREUZ photographers’ cooperative. In addition to working with large and ultra-large film formats, he successfully specialized for many years in panoramic photography and was considered to be “Germany’s most renowned panoramic photographer” (Merian, 9/2003). Since publishing his last book of panoramic photos in 2007, he has dedicated himself exclusively to large-format photography.