You could say that Tillmans, who won the Turner prize in 2000, swapped the telescope for the camera, one kind of eyepiece for another, turning from things that are very far away, like the craters of the moon, to things close to home - the skin of an orange, rolled
socks on a sofa, friends and lovers, intimacies both human and inanimate:
rumpled clothing, the clutter on a windowsill, the detritus of a party, a bowl of fruit.