Ground Control: Christof Plüemacher’s Europe

In Europe, his camera captures intentionally narrow observations, with all action taking place around the edges, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks or begin their own  narrative. For France, he picked the 2009 Tour de France; for Spain, bullfighting; and for his own country, a Prussian military parade, which reflect the “rigidity and orderly structures in different aspects of German life,” says Pluemacher, “in particular, the German administration.”