Oliver Marks photographs of human beings tell stories of the seemingly familiar as seen from unwonted angles. Expertly staged snapshots subject the sitters to painstaking analysis and limn his or her role in society. The long list of illustrious people who have sat for his camera includes actors and actresses like Cate Blanchett, Anthony Hopkins, and Ben Kingsley; directors; musicians; philosophers; politicians like Angela Merkel and Joachim Gauck; designers; aristocrats; and, again and again, visual artists.