Photography means capturing part of the visible reality
About me
I was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, and grew up in Emmen, where I still live today.
The city is located between the mountains, hills, fields, lakes, forests and villages of the Swiss Mittelland.
My training to become a teacher had a significant contribution towards the development of my visual perception, in addition to me learning more about formal image design, the effects of light and colors and last but not the least - the attention to detail.
My pictures have a distinctive rhythm.
About my photography
As a little boy, I was fascinated by my father's bellows camera, which I initially considered a "weird thing", though every now and then I would take a few photographs for the family album.
The first cameras I owned were Minolta models, and with them I started the use of special lenses to expand the photographic design space. The effect of the macro lens was particularly fascinating and, with the help of specialist literature, I also increased my focus on the construction of the camera, its lenses, and the relationships between shapes and colors.
Starting with the age of twenty I created travel reports with slide films. One of my early observations was the “condensation” of the visible when looking through the camera eyepiece: In a way, the world gets "compressed". By choosing the image section for a photo, I determine the formal design of the photo. Lines are important because they create, they enclose surfaces. These lines and surfaces make up the rhythm of my pictures.
Photographing means capturing part of the visible reality.
In 2004 I switched to digital technology with the Nikon D 80 camera. It opened up a wealth of new possibilities, allowing an infinite number of experimental photos to be taken. While I don't necessarily like to use the word "shoot", it expresses how this new type of photography felt: now I was able to "shoot" landscape photos and spent a lot of time on the image design, on the "cadrage". Wide horizons, just a little foreground, or vice versa, the rhythm of the picture, the dominance of colors, vertical lines, diagonal lines ...
A good photo is one that you look at for more than a second. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
I also do commissioned work. My large format pictures design private rooms, lounges, training rooms and plenary halls. What I particularly like about these assignments is the dialogue with the client, discussions about their ideas, placing of the pictures, size of the room, what’s the room intended for, where is it located in the building, what are the lighting conditions etc.
In addition, I design and produce photo books, writing cards such as New Year's cards, wall and desk calendars. I showed my photographs in exhibitions in Dagmersellen, Emmenbrücke and Lucerne.
