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…
For this exercise, the subject I chose was a sculpture (by Lorenz Balmer) located in one of Basel’s botanical gardens at sunrise. I focused on the top part of it.…
In a previous exercise, I observed how the shutter speed impacts a moving subject while holding the camera still (check this exercise). Now, the idea is to move the camera…
The aim of this exercise was to test the effect on photographs of the camera’s shutter speed. While keeping the camera still in front of a moving scene, several shutter…
Similar to the previous exercise (Focusing with a set aperture), this one aims at showing how a subject changes when one modifies the aperture of the lens while keeping the…
In this simple exercise, I was asked to show how a photograph of the same subject appears while changing the focus from the front to the back of it. For…
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