Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, where he still lives and works. He has practised photography since the 1960s. He has been widely exhibited over the past two decades; most recently his works were shown in Frankfurt, Montreal, Basel, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.. Documenta 11 was his fourth, after 1982, 1987 and 1997. He is the author of many critical texts on art and the subject of numerous monographs.