Alfred Seiland is a noted documentary and landscape photographer, using analogue large-format cameras. He produced his first internationally praised body of work, East Coast-West Coast, travelling the US in 1979-1986, published a first monograph and had his first international solo museum exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (1987). He teaches at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (ABK) and is the original photographer behind the legendary FAZ advertising campaign. He is represented by Galerie Kicken (Berlin), Galerie Faber (Vienna), Hoppen Gallery (London), Galerie Clairefontaine (Luxembourg), and Hartmann Projects (Stuttgart).