As part of a project organised by “Bellevue”, a very dynamic Basel-based photography association (http://www.bellevue-fotografie.ch), I contributed a series of photographs on a local bakery that was shown during a…
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Sander took extreme care in choosing the context of his portrait photographs (OCA, 2015). This exercise is a result of my study of his work, focusing mainly on a 1983…
What I see in this image is what I imagine to be the ideal portrait style. What I mean by ideal is not only in terms of aesthetic value (after…
The Museum of Design in Zürich (Museum für Gestaltung) presented a selection of colour photographs by renowned Swiss photographer René Burri. Simultaneously Phaidon published a book under the title “Impossible…
I have always been bemused (or sometimes amused) watching the associations created by advertising and marketing. Browsing a magazine is a good way to understand what I mean: an advert…
From 08 June to 25 August 2013, 170 photographs by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) were shown at the Museum of Photography in Winterthur (Switzerland). While in the past I had come…
In this exercise, I experimented the natural tendency to orient the framing of a photograph according to the shape of the main subject: horizontal or vertical. Previously, my general habit…
The aim of this exercise is to show how a different focal length influences a photographed scene. For this, I chose a brass sculpture by Swiss artist Bettina Eichin, “Dame…
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