This book starts with a medical statement: “In 2014, at the age 51, Daniel Comte was diagnosed Alzheimer”. By this point, he had built a successful career as a creative director whose work has won endless awards, both in Switzerland …
Arnold Odermatt – An Obituary
On June 19, 2021, Arnold Odermatt died at the age of 96. His career led him to become one of the most influential Swiss documentary photographers of the 20th century. But it was a very unusual one. A baker and …
Swiss pioneers in documentary and street photography – An introduction to Jakob Tuggener
70 years ago, in 1951, five Swiss photographers came together to establish the Kollegium Schweizerischer Photografen (College of Swiss Photographers). It was short-lived and only staged two exhibitions at the Helmhaus in Zürich in 1951 and 1955. It combined, however, …