Timeline
2023 November
Photographers can't always choose the weather
2023 October
Louis Vuitton Foundation
For once on the other side of the camera.
Amazing Mark Rothko Show in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
2023 September
ENEA Gardens, Kitzbühel
2023 July
Behind The Scenes
2023 June
Travels in Korea
2023 May
Artwork shown at ENEA Inside Out Store at Löwenplatz/Gessnerhof in Zurich
2022 December
A few days of rest after months of hard work across three continents - enjoying paradise; the Strait of Malacca
2022 November
Photoshoot in South Africa
2022 October
Photoshoot in New York City, USA
2022 June
Southern States, USA
2022 May
Verhandlungsexperte Matthias Schranner, Zurich
2022 May
My oversized artwork Cherry Blossom was delivered and installed at a client's home
2022 March
ENEA Gardens Côte d'Azur, Cannes
2022 February
Swiss RE, Zurich
On your marks, get set, GO!
Photoshoot with the CEO and chairman of the board.
2022 January
Face of Europe: Stern magazine
What a joy – the german weekly magazine STERN just published a 13 page story with my FACE OF EUROPE pictures. Certainly a good start for this long term photoproject which I just completed in December 2021.
2021 December
Face of Europe: Book out now
I’m very happy to announce my new book, Face of Europe. Since 2012, I have been traveling across Europe portraying people from all walks of life.
2021 September
Great assignment at ART Basel: I am very happy the clients are back!
2021 September
Mediterranean water
In September I continued working on my windows series of artworks by exploring the diverse and vast beauty of the mediterranean sea.
2021 August
Gardens of Switzerland & Austria
2021 July
Face of Europe Book: Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
2021 June
Siberia: Tree Project
2021 April
Bordeaux: Tasting the 2020 vintage
2021 März
Chasing Mountains: Zermatt
2021 March
Face Of Europe: Concept of new book
2021 February
Shooting in the Snow, Switzerland
2021 January
Tree Project: Costa Rica
2020 December
Chasing Mountains: Jungfrau
2020 September
Tree Project: Engadin
2020 June
Paris: First Photoproduction after Lockdown
2020 May
First Tourists in Venice after Lockdown
2019 October
Somewhere between Schindellegi and Rio de Janeiro
During 2018 and 2019, we mostly lived in Paris, while I commuted to Switzerland. Those were years of heavy travelling with all kinds of jobs in Switzerland and all over Europe. But sometimes the journey took me even further: to Kenya, Japan or to cities like Rio de Janeiro.
2019 July
Art Delivery: Vakil Mosque of Shiraz, Iran
2019 April
Bordeaux: Primeur Week
2019 March
London: Unique woman shoot
In March 2019, we were shooting a campaign in London, the unique women shoot for UBS. It’s always nice being able to have a sip of champagne and a chat with all the models, the whole crew and clients after a long day of shooting.
2018 September
Face of Europe: Selecting pictures
2018 April
Cherry Blossom: Sakura Matsuri, Japan
2018 March
India: Corporate photoshooting
2018 March
Bombay
2017 November
Photoshoot in the Lavaux
2017 July
Face of Europe: Carpentry at the Ural
2017 July
Art Collection in Gstaad
2016 July
Face of Europe: Europe’s largest Slum „Canada Real“ in Madrid
Face of Europe brought us to all kinds of places. I hadn’t been aware that there was so much poverty and even slums here in Europe. The Cañada Real in Madrid is Europe’s largest slum with about 8500 inhabitants. We also went to a few other slums in Europe for the project: Sevilla’s Tres Mil Viviendas and Marseille’s quartiers nords where not even the police dare to go. The atmosphere was quite strange as on the one hand, we encountered incredibly loving and helpful people that enriched this project and on the other hand, we also saw quite a few armed people standing there. I believe that only and especially because of such acts, we were able to produce a real and authentic Face of Europe.
2016 July
Indian Ocean in Knysna, South Africa
2016 February
Freediver Hanli Prinsloo with Seals, South Africa
2016 January
Annie Leibovitz with Damilola Odusote and me at her woman exhibition in London
In 2016, I got the opportunity to attend the grand opening of Annie Leibovitz’ exhibition WOMEN: New Portraits in London. While my friends’ heroes were Mick Jagger or Patti Smith, Annie was my rockstar when I was a teenager. Her exhibition was held at the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, a redbrick ex-industrial space, far away from the high-end galleries of London’s West End. It was a great show about Annie’s project Women that she had started with her late partner, Susan Sontag, in 1999. The artist on the left is Damilola Odusote who is one of my favorite artists who is known for his eclectic abstract paintings and artwork. It was a great honour for me to attend and also lots of fun to spend a long evening together.
2015 June
Royal Ascot, UK
2015 February
Hong Kong: Shooting at the Victoria Peak
2015 August
Face of Europe: Quarry in Malta
2015 August
Crew Picture in Zürich with Andrea Kummler and Jonas Oswald
2014 July
Face of Europe: Scandinavians
2014 Juni
Face of Europe: forest workers in Pyaozersky, Russia
2014 January
Great Wall: China
2013 September
Face of Europe: Project Start in Lithuania
2013 March
Holi Festival, India
2012 August
New York Fashion Shoot
2011 July
Bookbridge Academy, London
2011 March
Longest tunnel in the world: Gotthard, NEAT
On the 23rd of March 2011 the drilling work was completed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel that had been built since 1999. It’s the longest tunnel in the world, with a total route length of 57 km. I documented this project photographically from start to finish for Keystone Agency and also have had the chance to revisit it since then. At the breakthrough, I was inside the drillhead and took some incredible shots of this historical moment.
2006 August
Moran Maasai Warrior School
2005 September
Freestyle, Zurich for Keystone
2005 May
Kuarupe Festival, Xingu, Brasil
2005 April
Swiss Athletes: Simon Amman, Marcel Fischer, Roger Federer, and Fabian Cancellara
2005 February
Pipilotti Rist, Zürich for Keystone
2004, September
AIDS, Zimbabwe
2002 April
Aging: Swiss Photo Press Award
2001 Juli
Loveparade: Berlin for Keystone
2001 January
Tonga: First light of the millenium
1999 August
Flag thrower in Jungsfrau Region
In my time as a photographer for Keystone I tried to illustrate the great topics of our time through expressive imagery. The relationship between Switzerland and the EU was a special challenge for me, because it can’t easily be portrayed. My idea of a flag thrower with an EU and a Swiss flag in front of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau wasn’t well received in the editorial meeting. After nobody had come up with a better idea, I had an EU flag made and hiked onto the Männlichen in Jungfrau Region with a Swiss flag thrower. This snap shot was captured when the Swiss flag slipped away from the flag thrower, which humorously illustrated the heated political environment of the 1990s. For many years, this was one of the most published photos in Switzerland.
1999 March
Piccard, Balloon around the globe
In March 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones completed the first ever successful non-stop balloon circumnavigation of the globe. They were also the first time not requiring any fuel, being carried only by a series of jet streams. The flight started in Château d’Oex in Switzerland and ended after 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes in Egypt. I took this picture of the landing from the air, since we couldn’t land on the plateau for geographical reasons. It was a rather difficult mission to accompany the balloon with our small plane, a Pilatus PC-12, during a big part of his journey, since we had to go get constantly new permits for flying over foreign territory.
1989 November
Me taking pictures of Diego Armando Maradona
1987 October
Child Labour: Potosi/Bolivia
On my first trip to South America in 1987 I also went to the Altiplano in Bolivia, the high plateau in the Andes, and the city of Potosí. It is a very dry and barren landscape on about 4000 m above sea level. In the early 17th century, this big city was made rich because of the silver and tin deposit. The tunnels deep down in the mines are very narrow, so only small people can access them, which is one of the reasons why many kids work in there, just as this 12 year old boy. Child labour in the mines is still happening today; in 2014 the Bolivian government passed a law establishing the minimum age of workers at 11 years old and regulating what activities are forbidden for adolescents, in order to adapt restrictions imposed by international conventions on child labour.
1987 September
El Petén: Ocelot and Macaw
1985 February
Portrait of Elton John
As most teenagers and young adults in the 80s we went to many great concerts. While my friends were carried away by the music, I tried to shoot extraordinary pictures for various newspapers and image agencies. At an Elton John gig I discovered the reoccurring reflection of the keys in his glasses. At that time there was neither autofocus nor digital photography, so it required the highest level of concentration to catch exactly the right moment where Elton John’s fingers played the keys and to get a sharp photo onto the film.
