Uwe Ommers 1000 families.

Uwe Ommer - a France-based German advertising photographer - spend four years and traveled 250.000 kilometers (160.000 miles) in a cross-country vehicle to photograph families of the world.
He "simply" travelled the world to meet some 2000 families using a Rolleiflex 6008i camera.
The result is an amazing collection of 1000 family portraits from 130 countries covering five continents which visitors to the Photokina 2000 could see on their way to the fair. 1000 big Photostats where on display in the streets of Cologne.




The pictures on this page is from the 552 pages thick book : "1000 Families - The Family Album of Planet Earth" which displays all the photographs.
Browsing this book is quite amazing - I spend several hours looking at these photographs which is kind of a "documentation of the state of the humanities or human families" at the turn of the millennium.

Read more...
Visit the publishers website : TASCHEN GmbH
An issue of RolleiNEWS from September last year had an article about the project.

Buying the book
You can buy this book at Amazon.com.

Uwe Ommer: 1000 Families