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Daniel’s first camera ever was actually an Apple iPhone 3G S. Starting in 2014, mobile photography has helped him to gain an easy and playful access to photography and to express his strong design sense and intuition for aesthetics. Ever since, Daniel wants to connect people with their environment to illustrate the soul of a place. By using all kinds of compositional and harmonic elements such as lines, forms, patterns, light and proportions, Daniel playfully educates the viewer that beautiful and artsy moments can be found everywhere and at any time.
In his approach as a quiet photographer, he mindfully observes the environment to capture random occurring and fleeting moments. Putting his captured impressions into a temporary spotlight, visually isolated from the surrounding chaos, he carefully masters the balancing act of getting an aesthetical interpretation without creating a posed appearance and highlighting the surprisingly appealing strangeness of a place.
As part of this concept, he intentionally uses his smartphone only. For Daniel, it is crucial that mobile photography is immediate and reactive and allows him to create visual stories and sensitive insights without disturbing the environment. In 2019, some of his work has been shared by Apple and Adobe. In addition, his work has been awarded at the International Photography Awards (Smartphone Category) and as Grand Prize Winner of the Mobile Photography Awards. One of his pictures, taken with his iPhone, made it to the Shortlist of the renowned Sony World Photography Awards.

Sophie Schüler has many years of experience as a photographer in the field of portraits, press and events.
She studied photo design at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and has been working as a press photographer as well as coach for photography and film since 2010.

The wish to tell stories through her pictures is one of the reasons why she became a photographer. Whether it's a far away or a local topic – her work usually focuses on people and their own story that is being told.

And her love of working with real people and their individual topics is also the reason, she finds great pleasure in accompanying course participants with their individual projects at her photography workshops.

After the successful completion of my studies as a photo designer (2006), I took the step into self-employment and specialized from then on especially in professional event photography, business portraits, and product photography. A long-term engagement for an agency in the Stuttgart area brought me after only a few months to the red carpet of the Bambi awards, to high-class corporate events and to exclusive events in politics and sports. The foundation of a studio community in summer 2008 gave the necessary space for professional business portraits as well as product photography. For example, I supplied a magazine for audio technology monthly with professional product and documentary photos. My customers trust my expertise, my professional appearance as well as my feeling for the right moment and the optimal perspective - with numerous of them I have had the pleasure to work with since the beginning of my self-employment up until now. Plus, on the weekends you can find me at weddings all over Germany or abroad, where I capture the most beautiful moments &amp; memories for the wedding couples - for eternity :)

After graduating from her photography studies in 2006 Ina became a freelance photographer. Starting out as a portrait and wedding photographer photographer with her own studio she later specialized more and more in portraits and documentaries for B2B and companies.She also enjoys using her photographic skills to document social and charity projects. This has brought her to places like Lithuania and Macedonia where she spent several weeks accompanying different children's charity projects.

Welcome to my creative world, where every image is a canvas for art and emotion. I began my photographic odyssey in the mid-1990s with a Minolta XD7 and a passion for concert photography, influenced by the magic of Kodak T-MAX black and white films. Even in the digital age, I have never abandoned the soul of traditional photography. My passion is still black &amp; white, which I often, but not exclusively, use in architecture, landscape, portrait, reportage and street photography. Since 2010, I have been sharing my experience and passion in numerous workshops and lectures. These events are not just about teaching you the technical usage of a camera - I may guide you to technical finesse, but our journey together goes deeper. It's about nurturing your creative voice, shaping your unique point of view, and bringing your artistic identity to center stage. My personal inspiration is enriched by an extensive collection of original prints and photo books. If you want to capture that specific moment in time, fill your images with emotion and embark on a photographic journey that crosses time and space, let's embark on this adventure together. I invite you to explore my portfolio, talk to me, take part in my workshops, and discover the art that awaits you - because in every picture there is a story that wants to be told. Exhibitions <ul><li>2010 (HGP) - Berlin Tempelhof (Architecture)</li><li>2022 (photo SWITZERLAND) - Swiss Alpine peaks under a full moon (landscape)</li><li>2023 (photo SWITZERLAND) - San Giovanni Battista (architecture)</li><li>2023 (photo SWITZERLAND) - Basel, inspired by Sugimoto (architecture)</li><li>2024 (photo SWITZERLAND) - Silo, Basel (architecture)</li></ul> Awards and honors <ul><li>2022 - TIFA Bronze Award - Landscape</li><li>2023 - IPA Honorable Mention - Architecture Photography</li><li>2023 - TIFA Honorable Mention - Nature</li><li>2023 - TIFA Silver Award - Architecture Photography</li><li>2024 - MUSE Gold Award - Black &amp; White Photography Landscape</li><li>2024 - MUSE Gold Award - Architecture Photography</li></ul> Publications My images have been published in various journals and books, e.g. You Are Cordially Invited (Art Basel Issue, 2013), North American Congress on Latin America (2018), Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2019), Farmer's Almanac (2020), ...

Sebastian Grundgeir is living and working as a trained architect and self-educated photographer in Zurich. Born in Hamburg he went out to study architecture in Hannover and discovered his passion for photography whilst studying. However, his profession as well as his love of nature and the alpine soon called and made him move to Switzerland.His photographic emphasis lies in architectural photography and landscape photography. Besides the mountains and Swiss architecture, which form the main body of work, his portfolio holds projects across the entire Alpine region and beyond. Sebastian’s photographs portrait moments in time, which he understands as a mixture of actual documentation and emotional illustration. He stresses the elements that were the incentive for the capture, accentuates colors and forms, without unnaturally distorting them. His compositions are consciously chosen, composed and most of the time carefully planned.

Following a decade of working as a researcher in wildlife conservation, specializing in large felid ecology, Malini Pittet turned to wildlife photojournalism. The reason for the change in career was based on the possibility to reach a greater audience to create awareness aboutconservation through photography and story-telling. Malini was born and brought up in India and moved to Europe to attend university. She completed a Master degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Management at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent. Her various research projects gave her the opportunity to study leopards and tigers in India, Arabian leopards in Yemen as well as jaguars, pumas and ocelots in the Peruvian Amazon.Malini loves traveling and photographing wildlife around the world. Her travels have taken her to many countries around the world such as Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Oman, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Madagascar, Seychelles, Brazil and many more!The combination of wildlife photography and traveling brings together a perfect combination, something Malini is keen to share. Learn about wildlife and nature photography with Malini and use these skills on your next nature holiday.

The photographic interests of Matthias Gaberthüel are versatile and this reflects his extensive portfolio. He has been carrying around his camera for more than two decades and through his occupation as an agricultural scientist he had the opportunity to discover much of the world. Travelling always inspires him over and over and influence his work. His picture language is characterized by harmony and aesthetics, balancing art and technique. Matthias lives with his family in the Leimental near Basel.

A Pharmacist by education and a photographer by trade, my journey started in Denmark after moving there from my home country Egypt where I started to look at photography as a career option, not just a hobby. Moving to Switzerland fuelled this passion with an environment that allows capturing the most memorable emotions wrapped in the most breathtaking landscape. It was also when I got certified from the New York Institute of Photography through their online program. I now have a studio in Reinach BL, and enjoy taking portraits of individuals and businesses, with a particular interest in digital art and more extravagant, creative portraiture.

After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Organizational Communication, Stefan mainly devoted himself to photography and video production. His great passion is travel photography, which offers a wonderful mix of portraits and landscapes. That’s why he travels the world with his camera again and again, always in the hunt for special photo moments.The photographic works have been published by National Geographic Germany, ZEISS Lenspire and Sony Fotospiegel for example.When Stefan is not traveling around the world, he shares his knowledge with the participants in photo courses and workshops, realizes photography and video projects for companies and works for Swiss Radio and Television.Stefan sees photography as the most beautiful form of visual art and as something bigger than the photographer himself.

I am a Brazilian photographer with an undergraduate degree in Fashion from the Federal University of State of Minas Gerais and a graduate degree in Designer and Culture from the University FUMEC. I lived in New York City where I studied photography at the School of Visual Arts moving subsequently to Barcelona. I now reside in Zurich. During my last 13 years I changed the direction of my path as a photographer. Photography has always been my passion, my therapy, my joy to wake up at sunrise and my most fulfilling experience. I see the world through the frames of the camera and beauty in every corner what makes me year after year feel the need to go deeper into this art. A bit about myself as a Photographer: <ul><li>2018 Zurich, Switzerland - First prize at the Swiss Photo Club Awards</li><li>2019 London, England - Interview at The British Journal of Photography. The Guardian editor's favorite Portrait of Humanity entries</li><li>2020 Zurich, Switzerland Instructor at Swiss Photo Club Academy&nbsp;Published in 4 newspapers Exhibited at the Swiss Art Expo, Zurich Lecture&nbsp;at Photobastei, Zürich</li><li>2020 Barcelona, Spain - Street art in Barcelona</li><li>2020 Paris, France - Street art in Paris</li><li>2021 Zurich, Switzerland - Photo tour "Perspectiva Urbana" in Zurich with "Destino Suiça"</li><li>2021 Tokyo, Japan - Official Selection of the TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Award)</li><li>2021 São Paulo, Brazil - “50 words 100 photos” were projected on skyscrapers in São Paulo.</li><li>2022 Budapest, Hungary - Exhibition at the PH21 Gallery in Budapest</li><li>2022 Zurich, Switzerland - Pop-Up Exhibition at Babalu Art Gallery Exhibition at the Photo Schweiz at Halle 550</li><li>2022 Arles, France - Street art in "Le Recontres De la Photographie"</li><li>2022 Worldwide - Released the book: “50 words 100 photos” in English, Portuguese and German.</li></ul>

After many corporate years in Eventmanagement and Communication, Flavia took the leap and became self dependant in the photography field. Even though she started with landscape photography many years ago, she now specialized in emotional photography. On one side, she captures weddings, newborn, events and portraits, and on the other side, she travels with NGOs to document their charitable projects. Nowadays, landscape and street photography are her way to relax after a long day or hard week.For Flavia, Photography is a means to experience the wonders of this world in all its details.Interesting fact:<ul><li>Flavia is also a salsa teacher and passionate social dancer</li><li>The name Flavia comes from the ancient romans and means “the blond one”, so there is hardly a blond joke she hasn’t heard yet.</li></ul>

Starting with the analog technology up to today’s smart phone photography, I am fascinated by photography. As a physics lab technician I immersed myself in the world of photography during my apprenticeship. With an illustrative approach I started to take pictures. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in aviation, I began to look beyond the fence of safety and logic.Passionate about culture and art, people and nature, I focus my life on telling stories in the form of photographs – often accompanied by text. Virtuosity and imagination play a bigger role on this playing field than calculability and logic, and I enjoy communicating this. Since 2012 I have been working as a freelance photographer, mainly in the fields of winter sports, travel and documentary photography.

Philipp Funke discovered his passion for photography in his early childhood. Coming from a family of architects, his interest in the interplay of formal and social aspects was fostered. He studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Macintosh School of Art in Glasgow. In 2006, he graduated with a master's degree.After ten years as an architect, he concentrated on his work as a photographer and completed further training in visual design with a focus on photography at the School for Design in Zurich.As a primary motif, architectural content characterizes his work. He analyzes the situations depicted on a formal as well as on a political and social level, often abandoning the purely documentary character of photography and giving the images an intrinsic value by making his original intention visible.In various group exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland, he mainly showed his large-format works such as "lichen structures", "Nature of Geometry" or "Opening Red Doors". The latter series about the rooms of Enver Hoxha's villa in Tirana was awarded in the category architecture at the International Photography Awards 2021.Philipp Funke lectured at the University of Liechtenstein, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the Fotoclub Schweiz on various topics of (architectural) photography. He lives and works in New York, Zurich and Berlin.

Placido Faranda is an Award-winning and Worldwide published (National Geographic, Lonely planet, Vanity Fair, ABCnews, GQ etc.) aerial photographer whose style reflects a constant quest for new landscape colors and contrasts. Placido has been passionate about photography for over 10 years, combining DSLR and mirrorless camera technology to shoot travel and street photography.Since 2016 he’s focused exclusively on drone photography, with a very distinctive top-down style that’s gained international attention on social media (TOP 50 aerial photographer of 2016 on Instagram’s @FROMWHEREIDRONE, an authority on aerial photography). In 2017, his picture “Lady in Red” was a finalist at the Sony World Photography Awards (travel category), placing it in the top 10 of 105,692 images entered from 182 countries. The same picture was also included in the World Photography Organization’s Sony Awards Traveling Exhibitions in London, Milan, Paris and Berlin. Another of his pictures, “Solidified Lava vs Forest” was awarded second place at the 2017 PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris (landscape category). “Solidified Lava vs Forest” gained further worldwide exposure after being featured on National Geographic’s homepage as the “Picture of the day” in the United States, China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Brazil and Portugal. In October 2017 the picture was awarded second place at the IPA (International Photography Awards) and chosen by the awards’ curator for the “IPA Best of Show” exhibition in New York. In November 2017 “Solidified Lava vs Forest” was awarded 1st place at ND awards 2017 and chosen over 6849 entries from 89 countries.In 2018, for the second year in a row, his picture “The Big Meringue” is finalist at the Sony World Photography Awards (Landscape and Nature category) placing it in the top 10 of 129,338 images entered from 183 countries. In June 2018 the same picture was awarded Winner of “San Francisco Bay International Photo Show 2018”.

Since finishing the apprenticeship as Fotografin EFZ in 2014, i work as an independent photographer.I am really into portraying People and also love to shoot fairy Fashion Stories.As&nbsp;freelance photographer i work in the fields of press and advertising photography since 2018.So my main&nbsp;work is corporate, portrait and editorial&nbsp;photography.Growing up in a small community in the canton of Zurich, i currently lives with my pug lady in the canton of Lucerne but still have my Atelier in Zurich where work.As photography has a lot to do with storytelling, i love to put&nbsp;a message in every picture i&nbsp;take. Pictures are here to tell stories.From 2016 to 2020 i was a member of the Board of the&nbsp;vfg (vereinigung fotografischer gestalterInnen).

Niels is a passionate photographer. In his professional life he has been able to work for many companies and private individuals.&nbsp;As a visually very demanding person, Niels works in a wide variety of areas. Whether in landscape, street photography, architectural photography or in the studio, he is always looking for aesthetic perfection. He has now made a name for himself primarily as a portrait and event photographer.

Duilio A. Martins, was born in 1981 in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2000 he went to England, to study the language and experience the European art and culture. There he studied photography which had been, until then, only a hobby. After that he followed a sculpture training. Since then he works as sculptor, fine art photographer, teacher and photographer specialised in reproduction of art works. In 2010 he moved to Switzerland after living for sometime in Paris and Norway. For the last 5 years he is a guest teacher at the Visual Art School Basel. His photographs and sculptures have been exhibited in Brazil, England, Norway, Germany and Switzerland.&nbsp;

Daniel von Rüdiger (Ph.D.) is a photographer, filmmaker, and musician. He studied Visual Communication, Communication Strategies and Iconic Research in Munich, Augsburg and Basel. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Art Linz for his investigation on the connection of rhythm in work, film and music. In his artistic research, he generates theoretic findings through artistic practice. Daniel von Rüdiger uses photography as a tool for artistic expression as well as for documentation. He works as a social documentary photographer and filmmaker for nonprofit organizations in Nepal and Papua New Guinea. His photographs of the daily life of indigenous people have been exhibited amongst others in the Gropius Bau Berlin, Rietberg Museum Zurich and the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. As a photo-artist, he is represented by the German-based gallery Pablo &amp; Paul.&nbsp;&nbsp;Daniel von Rüdiger uses his DSLR not just to take photos but also for filming. For the Museum of Culture in Basel, he made the award-winning documentary Kanu belong Keram. As a musician, he is also in charge of the soundtracks of his films. He forms together with the guitarist Carl the duo 0101 ( www.0101.wtf ) who produces film scores.&nbsp; Daniel von Rüdiger can look back on more than ten years of teaching in academia. The last years he was lecturer for photography at the Academy of Art and Design, Basel. Besides, he is getting booked as a keynote speaker to spread his knowledge on rhythm and his experiences about Papua New Guinea.

I live and work in Vättis. In 1987 I began to work with photography as a self-taught photographer. From 2006 to 2010 I completed a photographic training with Martin Vogel, Lucerne. In 2008, I joined the association. Since 2009 I have been showing my photographs in regular exhibitions.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 2015 I started to photograph with the digital technique of cross development, in 2017 with the in-camera method of double exposure. Since 2019 I have been working as a freelance photographic artist. My camera is an Olympus OM-D.&nbsp;

Jürgen has a degree in linguistics and film science from the University of Zurich. He started photography in his youth, learning the trade from his father in the field and in their dark room. Through the years, his goal in photography was to find beauty where others didn’t even look for it. To discover locations, perspectives, and stories in unexpected places. Starting out with street and landscape photography, he expanded his portfolio to portraits. His passion is not only take pictures but also to share his experience and insights into the craft and art of photography with others.

Anna Korbut is a photographer from Ukraine. She is mostly in landscape, fine art, portrait and commercial photography. Inspired by nature and human connection to it. Her photographs combine the colourful picturesqueness of classical paintings and modern methods of working with digital images. Without excessive interference with the images, she captures the natural changes of the world. Landscape photography shows the beauty, grandeur and fragility of our world. A member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers UAPF. Speaks English, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian. Site <a href="annakorbut.com." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">annakorbut.com.</a>

Peter Coulson, known as the modern age black-and-white master of Photography, specializes in the genres of beauty, fashion and fetish. His images are recognised and well known for their sensual, mysterious &amp; elegant feel; always with a twist of his screwed up sense of humour. He has worked commercially as a Photographer for over 15 years. Coulson lives and breathes photography; 1/3 commercial, 1/3 educational, 1/3 shooting what he loves – 24/7. His love and passion is very evident in his work. The attention to detail, use of light, and the emotiveness of the models he shoots creating something that is visually and mentally stimulating. Fans around the world are captivated by his depth of knowledge, creativity, and incredibly fascinating photographic world. His work is a continuous series of ongoing projects, portraits and commercial work. Coulson is inspired by people, places, objects, world events, but most importantly light and emotion. Coulson’s work has been published as covers and editorials in magazines worldwide, as well as winning multiple prestigious awards including AIPP Australian Photographer of the Year, and AIPP Fashion Photographer of the Year 3 times. He is proudly a worldwide Ambassador for Hasselblad, Zeiss and Ilford.

Photography took an important part in my life while I was studying engineering, because I started to work as an assistant to earn some side money, but it soon grew to be the its pivotal element.As assistant in Milano I enjoyed the best of the profession working alongside with professionals in almost any field, architecture, industrial, fashion, still life, and then after opening my studio, I kept experimenting and working.Witnessing the transition to digital was just fun, I could add yet another skillset to my experience, while retaining my vision.I live in Basel since six years, and I am working for industrial companies, architecture studios, and a wide array of different clients.For the last 10 years I have also been shooting long lasting time-lapses projects depicting a number of subjects, from art installations, to industrial montage or building renovation.

My love of nature and the beauty of the world that surrounds us inspire my photographs. I have a special interest in landscape photography. My photos are characterised by the attention to detail and the observation of light and shadow, which in combination result in beautiful creations. My aim is to represent a mood and a landscape in such a way that the character of the landscape and its uniqueness is preserved. In contrast to a work of art, I don't want to create anything new, but to represent the landscape in the best moment for my taste. The courses give me the stimulation and the exchange that is important in my work, to remain curious and to keep breaking new ground.

Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler has risen to the top of her industry as both a photographer and educator. Based in New York City, her fashion editorials have appeared in numerous publications including Marie Claire, In Style, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and more. As a photographic educator, she is one of the most sought-after speakers internationally. Lindsay enjoys teaching on the industry’s largest platforms and most prestigious events. She has worked with some of the top brands in the photographic and related industries such as Canon and Adobe.&nbsp;Her client list consists of NBC, Grey, Edelman, Saatchi &amp; Saatchi and more.A clean, bold, and graphic style has become the hallmark of her work, whether shooting advertising campaigns, designer look books, jewelry, hair campaigns, fashion editorials, or professional athletes. Lindsay is renowned for her creativity and collaborating with designers and stylists in order to create fresh looks.Lindsay’s energy and enthusiastic teaching style showcase her excitement to share her passion and knowledge with others, whether it is world-wide through prestigious platforms such as CreativeLive, KelbyOne, and the industry’s largest conferences, or through her blog, video tutorials or her five books.She is located in Manhattan shooting fashion full time. She is honoured to have been named a Canon Explorer of Light as well as a Profoto Legend of Light.She looks forward to meeting new photographers in Switzerland!

I was born in Italy and had the luck to live in sone of its most beautiful cities: Rome, Venice, Florence and Milan. My official job is civil engineering, beside it I always cultivated my love for all forms of art. I studied acting in Milan and participated in several&nbsp;TV commercials and theater shows… till I found the true art form in photography thanks to Swissphotoclub. I live in Switzerland for 14 years with my family and it was in Zurich, that I picked up an old Reflex camera, felt in love with it and started taking my first courses…. Since then&nbsp;I haven't stopped. More courses, workshops, photo trips until the first direct contacts from agencies that have engaged me for advertising and marketing photos. The beauty! Photography has allowed me to see it everywhere, frequently in the most unexpected places. I walk the streets always with a camera looking for moments to steal, looking for beauty. I love Streetphotography, in all its forms: the minimalism in the geometries of a street, the reflections, the lights and shadows, the details but also the stories that the street can tell us.

Chris Knight was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and hardened by the sweaty, nearly chewable, humidity of Florida. He combines his unconditional love of art history with his conditional love of technology, topping it off with a flair for the cinematic and an uncompromising eye for detail.His work has appeared in or on Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, L Official, GQ,&nbsp;People, MSNBC, ABC, Oxygen, Ocean Drive, and others.Chris is the author of The Dramatic Portrait, a Profoto Legend of Light, Fujifilm Creator, and an instructor at Pratt Institute as well as the New York Film Academy.

My professional journey began with a commercial apprenticeship at Swiss Bank Corporation, now UBS, in St. Gallen. I then worked in the financial sector for over twenty years in Geneva, London, New York and Zurich. After a sabbatical, I decided to take a new path and teach myself web design.As a web designer, it is a matter close to my heart to realize the individual wishes of my customers as versatile as possible. That's why I started to work intensively with Photoshop. Through this process, I not only discovered my artistic streak, but I also learned how to be successful on social media. I got the chance to work with international agencies, brands and artists. These exciting developments have awakened my passion to develop myself continuously. A current and fascinating topic is artificial intelligence and its exciting applications in the world of image creation and editing. I am curious how this new challenge will inspire me and enrich and change my work.

The British-born, New York-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the ever-changing scene of New York City’s streets for more than 25 years. In his career as a news and magazine photographer, with a large body of work in such publications as The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, among others, he has photographed major public figures and historical events. In particular, his reportage following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has featured on NBC’s Today show, as well as on the BBC, History Channel, and Al Jazeera, and his images have been included in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s archives.His work covering the pandemic lockdown in New York City has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress, whose collection holds work by such great Depression-era documentarians as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Besides showing at Leica galleries in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and London, Penman’s signature street photography has appeared in international exhibitions as far afield as Venice, Berlin, and Sydney.He also tours the world teaching workshops on photography for Leica Akademie. He was recently named among the “52 Most Influential Street Photographers,” alongside such legends as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand. Penman’s first book, Street, published in 2019, became a best-seller and was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Pep Bonet (Mallorca, 1974) is a co-founder of NOOR images and a Nikon Europe ambassador.&nbsp;Pep is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has traveled extensively capturing profound moments that represent the unbalanced world in which we live. His longer-term projects focus on African issues, with his most well-known project being “Faith in Chaos”, a photo essay on the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone. Pep’s ongoing work around the globe on HIV/Aids and identity has led to several photography books and many exhibitions worldwide.He is also known for a long-term reportage on the rock ‘n roll band Motörhead. Pep spent many years (2008-2015) on the road with Lemmy Kilmister, the legendary singer of the band, and created an exceptional visual document of the many hours spent on the road with Motörhead.Pep crafted himself into shooting documentaries. This resulted in several short and long documentary films, amongst which the award-winning ‘Into the Shadows’, a pursuit into the lives of hundreds of thousands of Africans living in the inner city of Johannesburg. Pep’s work has been recognized with many industry awards. It started in 2002 when he was selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass with his work “Faith in Chaos”. That same year he was nominated “one of the top 30 to watch” by Photo District News. Pep won the Kodak Young Photographer of the Year in 2003 at the festival Visa pour L`image, and the Luchetta Foundation in Trieste awarded him the best press photographer of the year in 2004. He was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant in Photography in 2005 and in 2007 won the second prize in the World Press Photo contest in the Sports category for his work on the amputees’ football league in Sierra Leone. In 2009 Pep won a second World Press Photo Award for his work “Forced Identity”, portraying the lives of transsexuals in Honduras. In 2013, Pep won his third World Press Photo Award-winning in the category Multimedia for Into the Shadows. In 2015 Pep has been the recipient of the Horbach Award. His list of publications includes “Generacion Perdida” (2010),&nbsp;“Remarkable South Africans”(2009), “Photobolsillo”, a new Photobolsillo from La Fabrica with a collection of Spanish photographers, “One Goal” (2007) and “Somalia: The Invisible Trace” (2007), “Quadern de Bitacola”, a text book written by Carles Domenec and POSITHIV+ (2005), Watching in Silence (2011), 17 milagroso (2009), 217A; a NOOR book (2008), We the people of Wacken (2014) UDR, Röadkill, Motörhead (2013)…Pep is a photographer, a filmmaker, and a DOP, he works on personal projects, mostly directing documentary films, and on assignments for clients and NGO’s. He frequently lectures on photography and film and conducts lectures and workshops.PUBLICATIONS:National Geographic, New Yorker, Newsweek, New York Times, US News and World Report, The Times (UK), MSF (Medecins sans Frontieres), Corriere della Sera, El Pais, EPS (El Pais Semanal), PF(Magazine), Man, Brisas, Ultima Hora, PDN, El Mundo, El Periódico, El Dominical, Profifoto, American Photo, Zoom, Foto-noticiario, Fotografia, Metro, City, Credits, Arte, Fotografia reflex, Transversal, IO Donna, Il Fotografo, Goteborgs Posten, Photo Italia, Digital Photographer, El Mundo, El Periodico, La Vanguardia, NRC Handelsblad &amp; M Magazine, Trouw, de Volkskrant, Het Parool, Onze Wereld, IS (Internationale Samenwerking), Algemeen Dagblad, Vrij Nederland, News Settimanale, Internazionale, Le Soir, De Morgen, The Globe and Mail, Esquire (Russia), Days (Japan), Verdensmagasinet, C Magazine, Private, Specchio (La Stampa), Courrier International, Le Nouvel Observateur, Elsevier, Independent, World Economic Forum, Minority Rights Group, Open Society Institute, British Medical Journal, Harper's &amp; Queen, Esquire Russia, Impactaids, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Life, Politiken, …

Daniel Malinowski, a Polish-born photographer, specializes in travel photography, including landscapes, architecture, street scenes, and food. He has traveled extensively, working with numerous well-known brands. Daniel is now based in Switzerland, where he continues to capture and share the beauty of the world through his lens. His work is known for its vivid storytelling and unique perspective.

Svetlana Puricel is the RossArt gallery @rossartgallery founder, a curator, art collector, and a specialist in sustainable development based in Switzerland since 2016. She is a mother to a small daughter. At the Sotheby’s Institute of Art @sothebysinstitute she completed her studies as an art gallery manager. With a previous university degree in Natural Sciences at Saint Petersburg State University, she has defended a master’s dissertation on the role of photographic images in sustainable development at the University of Zurich @uzh.ch Since 2017, Svetlana organises contemporary art and photography exhibitions in Zurich, conducts cultural and educational events, and manages interdisciplinary projects. She has collaborated with various institutions including Kulturhaus Helferei, Photobastei, and the University of Zurich.

I was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, a small, beautiful country on the Balkan Peninsula.In 2002, after graduating high school, I relocated to Germany to study art history, film, and theatre sciences. Eventually, I came to the realization that I wanted to pursue more practical work and moved to Berlin, where I studied photography and cinematography.Throughout my life, I have been attracted to visual art. The interaction between technology and creativity, as well as the numerous opportunities to tell stories through pictures, is what I am particularly interested in.&nbsp;Finding the right visual language for a particular story is my constant endeavour. I always see my work in the sense of the narrator and the story.&nbsp;I am open to collaborate on all kinds of projects across Europe. Get in touch!&nbsp;I am fluent in Bulgarian, German, and English.French and Serbian are the languages I am currently learning.

I am a passionate art lover and draw digital miniatures myself (<a href="http://mamay.ch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mamay.ch</a>). From 2006 to 2023, I was responsible for document imaging (scanning, enhancing, OCR, recognition, extraction, validation, archiving, etc.) at SER Interact Digital AG in Zurich. I have completed training in computer vision, digital image processing and information systems.

Hi,I’m Lucian, a full time photographer and filmmaker. Born and raised in the Swiss Alps, now living and operating from Basel. My passion for photography goes back more than ten years and in 2022 I started working professionally in that field full time.My aim is to create and capture beauty in all its forms and show it to the world to inspire and to evoke emotions of joy, tears, longing and love. I like to create very artistic and mostly “Film look” style work. Teaching these courses and introducing people into this fantastic craft and art that photography is, brings me a lot of joy!

I completed my training as a professional photographer in Vancouver, Canada (2006-2007). Back in Switzerland, I opened my first photo studio in Zurich in November 2007.Since 2010 I have been working full-time as a professional photographer for private and business clients. I work on photo assignments at my photo studio and on location. As a portrait photographer, I accompany people in all situations in life, which is the exciting thing about my profession.Sandra Stamm - your photographer for the extraordinary things in life.&nbsp;

Hi, I’m Veronika Marques-Santo, a passionate photography instructor with over a decade of experience behind the lens. Photography has been a huge part of my life for for more than 10 years, and what keeps me excited is knowing that there’s always something new to learn. I truly believe that continuous learning not only makes me a better photographer but also helps me grow as a teacher. This passion for improvement is something I love to share in my workshops, where I create a warm and supportive environment for every student. For the past six years, I’ve been teaching specialized workshops focused on studio portrait photography. I love sharing my knowledge and helping others build confidence with studio lighting, posing, and composition. My workshops are very hands-on because I believe the best way to learn is by doing. There’s nothing more rewarding for me than seeing my students improve and watching their excitement as they create beautiful portraits.I speak Hungarian, German, and English, so my workshops are open to a diverse group of students. No matter where you’re from, you’ll feel welcome and supported when you join me.Whether you’re just starting out or you’re looking to refine your skills, I’d love to help you grow as a photographer. My workshops are all about learning in a friendly and inspiring atmosphere, where you can ask questions, practice, and gain confidence with every shot. I hope to meet you soon!

Photographer &amp; Digital Publisher from Bern.Even as a child, I couldn't keep my hands off my parents' camera - even if that occasionally resulted in empty rolls of film. In 2012, I completed my training as a photography specialist, and since then photography has been a daily part of my life.&nbsp;In 2014, I founded my own small photography company, focussing on business photography: from product images and business portraits to reportages for hotels and restaurants.My passion has already taken me halfway around the world for photo assignments - for example to Sri Lanka, where I was able to document an Ayurveda resort. But I'm also out and about with my camera outside of work - be it at sunrise in the mountains or exploring unknown places. ‘I used to look at the pictures in travel books and holiday catalogues and dream of standing on those very beaches. Today, other people do that - with the photos I've taken.’I am convinced that good photos do not depend on the camera, but on the photographer's eye. Sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective to discover something special in the everyday.And although I work digitally a lot, I still like to reach for my old analogue camera, insert a black-and-white film and treat myself to the decelerated moment of conscious photography.In my courses, I want to pass on exactly this enthusiasm - practical, uncomplicated and with a lot of joy in photography.

Julian Stöckli is the founder and owner of copyrightprocessing in St. Gallen and has extensive experience in Swiss copyright law. He previously headed the copyright team at Meili Pfortmüller in Zurich and worked as a lawyer at Kellerhals Carrard. He gained practical experience in the legal department of TX Group AG as well as in film production and journalism. He is currently studying at the University of Zurich. He is involved in various organisations on a part-time basis, including as a board member of the Legal Help association.

George Mayer is an acclaimed photographer and designer known for his compelling black-and-white imagery and innovative approach to portraiture. Born in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, in 1985, he graduated with honors in Environmental Design from the Ural College of Arts and Crafts in 2004. Following his studies, Mayer worked as an interior designer, earning recognition in national architecture and design competitions, with his work published by esteemed publishers such as Tatlin and UniverPress.Transitioning to photography in 2007, Mayer quickly made a mark by participating in international competitions, including the Photography Masters Cup and The Spider Awards. In 2011, he won the Russian photo contest Young Photographers of Russia, leading to exhibitions in Kazan, Moscow, and at the international art festival in Marsciano, Italy. That same year, he secured the title of Photographer of the Year at The Spider Awards (USA) for Outstanding Achievements in Black-and-White Photography.Mayer's project "Shadows" earned him the Photographer of the Year award at the International Photography Awards, with the ceremony held at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 2017, his series "Light. Shadows. Perfect Woman." won first prize in the Portraiture category at the Sony World Photography Awards, leading to widespread publication and exhibition at Somerset House in London. Sony subsequently granted support for his project "Libido &amp; Mortido," further solidifying his reputation in the art world.An equally important aspect of Mayer’s career is his commitment to education. For over 15 years, he has been teaching photography at an art college, through his own photography school, and via international online courses. His educational programs have attracted students from more than 30 countries, making him a recognized mentor in the global photographic community. His teaching focuses not only on technical mastery but also on nurturing personal vision and artistic expression.By 2023, Mayer had participated in over 70 exhibitions worldwide, with works acquired by collectors in countries such as Italy, France, Australia, Japan, and Switzerland. His photographs have been featured in prominent publications including Forbes, The Times, and The Guardian. Additionally, his images have graced the covers of music albums for artists like Chris Brown and "Bullet for My Valentine," as well as book covers for esteemed authors such as Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and French writer Bernard Werber. His work has also been incorporated into visual media, including the Netflix film "Bright" (2017) and the acclaimed series "Fargo."Mayer's distinctive style is characterized by a masterful use of light and shadow, creating evocative and timeless images that explore themes of identity and human emotion. His dedication to the craft and innovative vision continue to influence and inspire the field of contemporary photography.

Andrea Sanchini is a fine art landscape photographer based in Bern, Switzerland. Originally from Italy, he draws inspiration from the Swiss Alps, Romantic painting, and a lifelong passion for nature. Specializing in authentic, painterly images of alpine lakes, glaciers, and wild valleys, Andrea crafts his photographs with technical precision and natural light, without digital manipulation. His work has earned international awards, including the European Photography Award for Swiss Landscape (2025), and has been featured in the Natural Landscape Photography Awards art book.

Classically trained professional photographer with many years of practical experience in
various areas of photography as an independent professional photographer.

His great passion is people, architecture, travel and art photography.
As a commercial and architectural photographer, he illustrates these topics with great passion and plenty of know-how for his clients from economy and culture.

He is a member of the renowned BFF - Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und
Filgestalter, of the BBK - Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler and of
FREELENS.
In addition, Chris Kister is a photographic artist who’s work can be seen at various group and
solo exhibitions.

In the flood of images everyone is exposed to every day, Chris Kister is keen on standing out through deliberately designed and carefully set images and thus bringing the quality of classical photography to a wider circle of interested parties.

At the age of 17 I found photography for myself and since that time it never let me go.
After school I somehow landed in film business and worked my way up from assistant to spark to gaffer to DoP.
My main work area was commercial, business film and music video.
Beside my work as cameraman I also owned a Steadicam and worked as Steadicam-Operator on German series like „Fall für 2“ and „Staatsanwalt“ as well as com-mercials, business films and music videos. Within these 20 years in film business I also studied Media-Design, had a family with two kids, lived in London for a while, travelled through Australia......
2014 I decided to step back and focus on photography again and since that time I had some very nice projects as a photographer.
My main work areas are business photography, portrait and product photography - but I have had fashion-shoots as well as weddings, too.
My knowlege about light from my time in film business helps me to create outstanding pictures.

When travelling I often just let it flow and completely dive into street photography, absorbing everything that´s happening around me.
Beside my work as a photographer I have been teaching photography courses since 2014 and also lecture at universities. I give classes in product photography and Photoshop at Geisenheim University as well as a Photoshop class at AMD Akademie Mode und Design in Wiesbaden.

I would describe myself as a warm and relaxed person. Humor is important for me because I believe that a life without humor is boring. I am open for trying out new ways and see life as an adventure.

Gianmarco was born in Italy. He was thrilled by photography&nbsp;very early in his life thanks to his dad and uncle who were developing pictures at home in the dark room. The passion for photography and the need to freeze the moment progressively grew and it led him to take studio photography classes in Rome at Officine Fotografiche Roma. However, the studio was not really his environment and he soon directed his attention to Sport Photography and then found his dimension with Nature and Landscape photography where he creatively reapplies what he learnt about light. He loves to travel the world to hunt nature and wildlife in its purest form.

We welcome different guest speakers throughout the year to share special insights with you about their work, style, career and experiences as photographers.

I learned the profession of photography from 1993 to 1996 at Photo Schultheiss in Sigmaringen. After my successful apprenticeship with a handicraft degree, I first worked for 2 years as an EB and studio cameraman at See-Tv in Überlingen. In the year 2000 followed my complete jump into self-employment. Since then I have been photographing for well-known press and advertising agencies, magazines, as well as national and international daily newspapers with pictures from all areas of photography. I also enjoy photographing corporate events, weddings and other events according to the clients' wishes.

I am Zer Erdoğan, I have been a professional photographer for more than 7 years. I am also a curator on many platforms and a jury member in many photography competitions. Photography is a passion for me. Because of my love for photography, I created the accounts @mystreet_bnw and @mystreet_women and they are showing a very good success graph.I live in Istanbul and in my spare time I do oil painting and play tennis.

Mein Name ist Franz Sußbauer, ich bin leidenschaftlicher Landschafts- und Reisefotograf aus München. Ich habe unter anderem Kunst und Fotografie der Moderne studiert.Neben Publikationen in Reisebildbänden, verdiene ich meinen Lebensunterhalt auch als Portrait-, Event- und Foodfotograf.

Osan left his corporate career in 2013 to follow his passion of photography. After graduating from New York Film Academy, he founded Swiss Photo Club to share his passion and create a community. He is specialised in Portraits, Events, Wedding and landscape photography. He is also a certified Adobe Photoshop instructor.
 Osan continuously strives to create a personal connection with his subjects, to add that personal spark to each photo. His teaching style is crisp, to the point, and focused on getting the participant practice what she/he learned.

Bernard is a commercial portrait photographer based in Lausanne, enjoying studio, outdoor and street photography, with a passion for making his subjects look at their best. Whether in studio, capturing headshots to give his clients the best possible image for their communication, or in the streets, hunting these faces that tell the story of a well-lived life, he cannot imagine anything more appealing than creating a portrait. Over the past decade, he learnt from, and worked with the best travel, street and portrait photographers in the world, integrating these learnings into his own practice and style. Bernard’s work was exhibited in Europe, Americas and Asia, and recognized with a couple of international awards, giving him the energy to keep learning, practicing and improving his photography. Born in France, Bernard moved to Switzerland in 1989, then to the Middle East in 2009. He fluently speaks French, German and English. Back from Dubai in 2018, he settled back in Lausanne.

Julia is Ukrainian-born photographer living in La Côte region, Switzerland. After she left her native Kiev, she lived in France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Japan and the Philippines. She has degrees in Economics and Marketing that helped her to have a successful international marketing career for 15 years which she happily changed for photography in 2014. Being nearly totally self-taught, she relies a lot on her advertising and marketing experience when constructing an image. Julia loves photography as a whole and will always bring something personal whether it’s a business portrait or a famous landmark. Her strength is her creative approach combined with true emotions. Julia’s most famous images come from her travel, wildlife and creative portraiture having won international awards and being published internationally. Julia’s commercial specialization is in portrait, editorial/fashion and architecture. Julia is a regular contributor to the PhotoVogue site of Vogue Italia. After winning the SPC Photo Awards jury prize in spring 2017, Julia joined Swiss Photo Club to share her passion and she is very much looking forward to welcome you into one of the many classes she’s teaching.

Born in Le Locle in 1971, Christian Bromley is from Ponte Tresa, from an Italo-Swiss mother and a Pied-noir father. He spent his childhood tossed about by his parents between art and culture, then flourished in sport, notably athletics, boxing and climbing. At the age of sixteen, he received from the hands of his father, himself a photographer, his first camera; a ZENIT. It was then that his true passion was born: photography. It therefore becomes a second life, a new area that he will explore brilliantly. A graduate in civil engineering and reinforced concrete, a field in which he would never work, and steeped in a natural and insatiable curiosity, he embarked on a new adventure and turned to the IT field. A passionate autodidact, he mastered this complex field and created his own company. In the basement of this one, he set up his first photography studio, thus allowing the expression of his first passion. He learns alone, tests, experiments, touches on the macro, the portrait then the artistic nude. This last area then becomes a revelation for him. Christian thus discovers the magic of revealing the beauty of a body thanks to a subtly studied play of shadows and lights. He then devoted himself exclusively to his art, opened a new studio and thus made his passion his job. To date, he has assembled a team of professional hairdressers and make-up artists and considerably expanded his photographic fields. He is recognized as well in wedding photography, events, maternity, family portraits and shares his knowledge with passion by giving lessons. 30 years later, he exercises his art with the same care and the same passion. <a href="https://www.christian-bromley.ch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Christian Bromley's website.</a>

Olivier Riethauser founded High5 Prod in 2012, an independent audiovisual production company based in Geneva, active in the field of events, adventure and aerial photography. Over time, the drone naturally interfered in various projects to finally become an essential tool, both in terms of photography and video. In November 2019, Olivier published "Geneva in the eye of the drone" with Editions Slatkine, a 232-page book, 170 photos and 35 QR code videos. A big success in bookstores which “allows you to rediscover the canton from an unusual angle” according to La Tribune de Genève.

András is a self-taught freelance photographer specializing in food, events, and product photography. With varied work experiences under his belt and a keen interest in entrepreneurship, marketing, and branding, he uses photography as a creative outlet as well as a tool for engagement and communication. András’ result-driven approach to photography uses all available tools at the disposal of the modern-day photographer. It’s that approach he shares in the Beginners Photography and Lightroom Courses. He is fluent in English, French and an expert in event, corporate and food photography.

Catherine started her career in advertising in London and after a few years transitioned to the creative side in order to pursue her love of photography. She studied a postgraduate course at the London College of Printing and has worked in photography since. She has worked primarily in corporate photography in London but also with the Royal Horticultural Society in England documenting their seed collection and adding images to their botanical library –&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flowerphotos.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: var(--link_color);">see image here</a>. Now Catherine loves working with small businesses creating still life images and portraits. She also loves teaching photography- sharing her enthusiasm and passion for finding ways to express your interpretation of the world.

Freelance photographer based in the Fribourg region, born in a city near Barcelona. Fascinated by travel, music, cinema, art and photography, she studied at the renowned Institut d'Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya in Barcelona. Highly sensitive with a touch of madness, dynamic, smiling and very sociable. Former collaborator of ELLE, Tocado and Cosmowellness magazine, she starts from a photojournalistic approach and seizes these small and important moments which make the difference between simple photos and a real report, in order to render elegant, timeless images, full of emotions. Photography teacher since 2008 (Fotoespai School of Photography in Barcelona, ​​Center de Cultura de la Dona Francesca Bonnemaison in Barcelona, ​​CC Can Borrell and CC L'Era in Mollet del Vallés, CC de Canovelles, CC Can Butjosa in Parets del Vallès and Masia Can Carrancà in Martorelles, as well as for private lessons). She speaks French, English, Spanish and Catalan.

James’s love of film and photography started when he moved to the Alps in the winter of 2007. “I bought a cheap video camera and skied with it in my pocket for the season”. Following a few years making films of his adventures in the mountains James decided to take things more seriously “I signed up for video production courses, documentary making and lighting workshops, this education boosted my skills and most importantly my self confidence that led to my first paid work”.Since 2016 James has been making a living as a professional photographer specializing in travel, sports, property and events. Most recently he has turned his attention towards the professional market here in Geneva, using our studio to shoot his professional headshots and working with NGOs and charities supporting their humanitarian work. “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to share my knowledge with others, and also to see what I can learn from the creativity and talent that each of you has within you”

Carla is a Director and Art Director. With a Bachelor’s degree in AD at CREA Geneva, she started her career in the industry as a VFX Artist in London in a production agency. Back to Switzerland she starts working as a Director and works with several agencies before launching as Freelancer.She then created a small creative studio for freelancers. With a huge passion for image, music and storytelling, filmmaking became obvious to her; she now wishes to transmit this passion to the farthest possible. <iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5u03TJPWaJw?showinfo=0"></iframe> <iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-BNmuaQMJT4?showinfo=0"></iframe> <iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/223824156/"></iframe>

"Born in Florence (ITALY) in 1981, Riccardo has been passionate about science, physics and photography since childhood. His father taught him how to use an old-fashioned film camera, and since then Riccardo has never stopped applying his creativity to his images and which he takes along as a second camera on his travels, because the charm of analog photography always stays with him. In 2017, Riccardo had the innovative idea of creating the first photography school based on Silversea's luxury cruise ships, sailing the polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctic. He has designed and run courses in collaboration with specialist photographers in polar regions such as the Antarctic Peninsula, the Arctic Circle and South Georgia. In addition, he has shared unique photographic experiences in non-polar destinations such as South Africa, Europe and the USA. His photographic experience extends to unusual conditions, reflecting his spirit of safe adventure. He also shares his passion for the pursuit of good food and conviviality around a table with good friends, which is one of his strengths.

I am a portrait photographer based near Geneva. Over the last 12 years I have worked with many women - and those they love - to create unique portraits that capture them at every stage of their lives. Serving Suisse Romande and beyond, I provide my clients with an unforgettable photography experience filled with a sense of elegance, pampering and fun. My style is influenced by fashion photographers such as Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino and Annie Liebovitz. My greatest goal is to create beautiful and timeless portraits of my clients, and to deliver beautiful products that they can see and enjoy every day.&nbsp;

Dai was born in Vietnam and lived with her family in Germany, where she grew up. In 2000, she moved to Switzerland, where she studied &amp; subsequently worked for five years as a teacher in Lausanne. So, she speaks German, French, English and Vietnamese. Following the birth of her son, Dai decided to follow her passion. Thus, the young mother founded and today continues to run her own Dai Bui Photography. By nature, creative and meticulous, she has specialized in emotional portraiture and Fine Art (family - children - seniors - ballet - maternity)					Dai believes in lifelong learning and she loves taking on challenges. From 2015 to the present, she has won a lot of international awards, prizes and publications. Even though Dai may have fulfilled a dream, her desire to seek perfection pushes her continually to broaden her already diverse knowledge.&nbsp;

Francesco is an eclectic human being whose experience ranges from chemistry and physics to photojournalism and documentary photography, data science to public health. Still, he only feel complete with a camera in his hand and a story to tell. Holding an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism from the University of the Arts, London, he is deeply engaged in teaching and sharing his passion for photography. His passions are street and documentary photography, travel photography, photo editing and storytelling, and drone photography. Fascinated by human beings, his photographic and artistic research lies at the intersection among memory, identity, grief and health inequalities. He is currently working on two main project lines: Syndemia, focusing on health inequalities in the LGBTQ+ community, and Unlike Flowers, She won’t come back with Spring, focusing on the recovery of the memory of his deceased mother. He is deep in love with Edinburgh, rivers, photo archives, Lady Gaga and Pad Thai.

Darren began taking photographs in the early 1980’s and printing in a makeshift darkroom at home. He went onto study photography, firstly on an art and design foundation course, before graduating with a degree in Photographic Studies in 1992 and an MSc in Film Production in 1994.&nbsp;Photographing both landscape and portraiture using digital and large format film, his images are characterised by a high level of compositional and technical accomplishment.&nbsp;&nbsp;Based in Morocco, Darren explores the region for project related work. Darren first visited Morocco in 1991 to make a student film and take photographs in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. He returned in 1993 again for a student project, this time to Essaouira.&nbsp;During the 1990’s he made several visits to the town, making a documentary on an Englishwoman’s adventure with Gnawa music.&nbsp; Darren is also qualified lecturer with a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and has several years experience planning and delivering courses in the UK.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is a passionate photographic educator, collaborating with Swiss Photo Club since 2022.&nbsp;

Kristian Dill currently spends most of his time working on portraiture, fashion and artistic or contemporary nudes. He also leads photo workshops for all levels. According to the mandates of his clients, he also works on lifestyle, wedding reporting as well as aquatic photography, mixing these different disciplines in a creative way and off the beaten track. Also professional in product, industrial and architectural photography, he is able to image all communication media to promote the company of his clients. He began photography as a teenager with his father's old medium-format. After acquiring his first reflex with his first salary, he quickly spent most of his leisure time photographing everything around him, developing and printing his black &amp; whites himself in his bathroom. Since 2011, he has specialized in studio portrait photography, as well as fashion photography and artistic nudes. Kristian became a freelance professional photographer in 2014, and remains based in Switzerland where he created a photo studio: "Le Studyo K", located in the Neuchâtel region.

Passionate about nature and alpine landscapes, Daniel Calatayud is a Spanish photographer based in La-Tour-de-Peilz. His specialty is to highlight the spaces that surround his eyes and his approach to the places that he transforms into images. After obtaining a degree in artistic photography in Valencia (Spain), Daniel has worked itinerantly between the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, in Greece and Indonesia, before settling definitively by Geneva's lake shores. He is an expert in landscape photography and a real estate photography pro. He is a creative photographer who uses very creative photographic resources such as HDR, panoramic photography, and taking photos with optical filters. For this photographer the best way to show the images is in physical support, he knows also very well printing techniques, even in the past he developed a project of portraits in Bichromated Gum. Daniel teaches photography in English, French, Spanish and Catalan.

For more than ten years, Hamda Kort photographed landscapes, cityscapes and faces with passion. From the studio to the edge of a cliff, he put his knowledge into practice to make his best shots. Autodidact and perfectionist, he doesn’t look at the clock when it comes to make an image that is worth it.

Hi, I’m Karolina - I capture Love &amp; Light.&nbsp;I’m a family photographer based in Geneva and my specialty is candid photos in beautiful outdoor settings.&nbsp;I am a psychologist by education and a traveller at heart.&nbsp;I come from Poland, but lived in Norway, Canada, UK, and now Switzerland. Before turning my passion into a career I had a corporate job in Communications and Research, which pays off in heaps in running my own business.&nbsp;I am inspired by nature, the human experience and travels.&nbsp;

Living in the countryside, far from the noise and hustle of the cities, I've been exploring and getting toknow nature, which is so dear to me, since childhood. However, it wasn't until much later, at the ageof 27, that I would put my eye behind a camera for the first time with a precise goal in mind. Sensitiveto the cause of Swiss nature and wildlife, my aim was to capture a glimpse of it in my photos. This isto show people the local biodiversity we have in Switzerland and why it's important to respect,preserve and protect it. To this end, I practice photography with the utmost ethics and respect fornature.

Light flows. It permeates, it runs, it evaporates, it shapes everything and fillsevery available space. I have always marveled at the way light plays on everything it touches.For me, the art of photography is not to see the world through the camera lens. It is to see, in my mind’s eye, the final image once it has been processed by the many optical, mechanical and electronic components of the camera. The difference is huge. My challenge is to capture light’s fluidity and ephemeral quality to render my idea of that particular instant. My photos show my vision of the world as it is constantly shaped andendlessly transformed by light.

I was born in Geneva in 1972. I am a passionate photographer for over twenty-five years, I work in the studio (portraits, family, beauty, corporate, products, etc.), covering events (artistic, cultural, sporting, etc.) and reporting for the press. As an architect of initial training, I’m also specialized in shooting works of art and architecture. With all this experience behind me, I created the SC-PHOTO studio in 2019.

A trained psychiatrist and self-taught independent photographer, i live near Annecy in France.&nbsp;It was through my curiosity for the universe and its mysteries that I entered the world of photography. My passion is to reveal what wouldn’t be accessible to our eyes, from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, by bringing through my lenses another vision of the world around us. Specialized in deep sky astrophotography, extreme macrophotography and more recently infrared photography, it is with pleasure that I will guide you in the discovery of these extraordinary photographic techniques, to reveal the invisible and maybe, sublimate reality.&nbsp;

Nath-Sakura (Nathalie Balsan-Duverneuil) was born on November 21, 1971 in Girona, Spain. A graduate of modern literature and philosophy from the Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier, she went on to work as a photojournalist for several newspapers and magazines in Europe and France.To date, she has published 13 collections of photographs and exhibited all over the world (from Hong Kong to Hollywood and from Barcelona to London).She is currently a fashion and advertising photographer.She currently works as a photographer and art director at Studio photo B612, located near Montpellier (Hérault).<h3>Publications</h3><ul><li>Pouvoirs, LDP, Paris, 2005</li><li>Dualités, LDP, Paris, 2006</li><li>Pervy Obsessions, recueil photographique, préface de&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chouraqui" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert Chouraqui</a>&nbsp;Thomas Ragage éditeur, Neuilly, 2008 (<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/978-2-915460-54-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">978-2-915460-54-4</a>)</li><li>1 femme, 2 hommes, 3 regards, recueil photographique et illustrations avec&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_Pasini" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fabrizio Pasini</a>&nbsp;et Nalair, préface de Patrick Wecksteen, Thomas Ragage éditeur, Neuilly, 2009 (<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/978-2-915460-79-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">978-2-915460-79-7</a>)</li><li>Fatales avec la collaboration de Clair Obscur, textes de&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Gavard-Perret" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret</a>, préface de&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Mourth%C3%A9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Christophe Mourthé</a>, éditions Victoria, Montpellier, 2012 (<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/978-2-9542917-0-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">978-2-9542917-0-3</a>)</li><li>Eternelles, textes de&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Durif" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eugène Durif</a>, éditions Victoria, Montpellier, 2014 (<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/978-2-9542917-1-0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">978-2-9542917-1-0</a>)</li><li>La photo dans tous ses états, manuel de photo et d'éclairage, éditions Victoria, Montpellier, 2018 (<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/978-2-9542917-2-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">978-2-9542917-2-7</a>)</li><li>La photo dans tous ses états, manuel de photo et d'éclairage, Tome 2, éditions Victoria, Montpellier, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-9542917-4-1)</li><li>Eclairer et photographier le Portrait, editions Victoria/Eyrolles, 2020 (ISBN 978-2-212-67995-3)</li><li>Eclairer et photographier l'objet, éditions Victoria, éditions Eyrolles, Montpellier, 2022&nbsp;(<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/9782416004353" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">9782416004353</a>)</li><li>Porträt und Licht: Das Praxisbuch für professionelle Beleuchtung&nbsp;, Dpunkt.Verlag GmbH, Edition en allemand, 2022&nbsp;(<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Ouvrages_de_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence/978-3864908651" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">978-3864908651</a>)</li><li>Product Photography: Lighting, Composition, and Shooting Techniques, Ed.&nbsp;Rocky Nook, Edition en anglais, 2022 (ISBN&nbsp;978-1681989297)</li></ul>

Born in Switzerland in 1973, Adrien Barakat obtained a master degree of architecture in 1999 and practiced this profession during over 10 years in Switzerland and in the USA. His experience during these years helped him develop a critical eye, an understanding of space and a special attention to detail. After working as an architect and a photographer during 3 years, he decided to fully dedicate his professional career to architectural photography in 2013 with clients connected to architecture, design and art. His photographs are published in Switzerland and worldwide and are regularly awarded with international photography contests. He gives architectural photography workshops since 2015 in partnership with Nikon and also gives lectures in architecture offices and schools. Furthermore he collaborates with Nikon Japan since 2016 to promote new specific equipment for architectural photography. His photographs have been exhibited in New York, Beijing, London, Berlin, Zurich, Bern and Geneva.

Joan built her marketing career at large companies in the United States before moving to Switzerland a few years ago. Although she was first drawn to photography to capture happy family moments, she is currently focused on taking photos of her beautiful new country that do the scenery justice.

My professional practice focuses mainly on portraiture, with a secondary emphasis on complete light control with studio object photography. Coming from a creative Waldorf school education, I completed my CFC in photography at the Centre d'Enseignement Professionnel de Vevey in 2024 and am currently pursuing more artistically-oriented studies in higher education in visual communication, with a specialization inphotography. During these studies, I took part in numerous workshops with internationally renowned artists (R. Riedler, L. Abril, V. Levrat, B. Depoorter, A. Cepeda, S. Couzinet-Jacques, L. Chaplin, R. Petersen, A. Golaz, F. Rothenberger, E. Brotherus, A. Vaz, Y. Gross, G. Goiris, P. Piguet). My artistic work reflects a particular sensitivity to Western social mores, the psyche and the links between humans and their environment. I explore this last theme in my first project, En quête de symbiose, which invites us to gentleness, contemplation andreconnection with nature, by illustrating the experience of naked people in a natural space free of any cultural markers. My working values are caring, tenacity, listening and goodwill.

Claudio is a freelance photographer based in Geneva. He has been enthusiast discovering the world of photography since he was a child, and even time-consuming studies and personal obstacles could not suppress Claudio’s passion for photography.Since ten years he has made this skill a profession and a way of life, capturing the beauty which lies all around us everywhere, every day.Claudio identifies himself professionally with a quote from William Faulkner: “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

Mark is a true creative all-rounder who is at home in many areas of photography, as well as film and music.
Because of his particularly likeable and easy-going nature, learning and working together with him is not only effective, but also great fun for everyone.

Mark can be seen regularly cycling through Stuttgart on his bike and with his camera ready - always looking to catch new locations, moments and motifs.

During my photography studies I was able to get to know all areas of photography. 
I especially love product and advertising photography. Working mainly for medium-sized and small companies, I capture their essence and personality in order to make it visible for their customers.
It is particularly important to me to convey their values as well.
Privately, I am an "art addict". I love making art from art or creating abstract underwater pictures.

To me photography means capturing the essence of a moment and giving feelings and emotions a way to unfold.

The fact that photography has so many facades has always kept me enthusiastic.
Photography always depends on place, time, emotion and people.

Next to photography my second profession is psychological counseling. These two fields enrich each other a lot.
While photography helps me keep an eye on what is important
and approach each person creatively, the psychological counseling allows me to get deeper insights on during my work as a photographer and to approach each customer and model very individually.

Becoming a nature photographer has always been his dream, which is why he first studied biology – after all, in-depth knowledge of the photographed subject has always been the first step to better and more profound pictures. His biology studies were followed by a training in post-production which led to many years as a picture editor in an advertising agency until his step into self-employment followed. Mark now owns his own studio in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.&nbsp;He gives individual trainings and also teaches in schools where he introduces the topics of photography or image editing to prospective media designers.&nbsp;Photography not as a profession, but as a vocation. Today, nature photography is something he is mostly devoted to privately, both above and below water, but he is also very versatile on land.

For twenty years I have been living photography by shooting portraits, events, architecture and products.
I am passionate about street and travel photography.
If possible, especially while traveling, I shoot 360 degrees panoramic pictures.
My style is documentary and clear and wherever possible also minimalistic.
Always on my side is Adobe Photoshop, even though I love most of my pictures in their natural style.
I studied philosophy and psychology which hopefully also shows in my pictures.

Growing up in an artistic family in Ukraine, I started taking photographs at the age of 14, which became my vocation through constant learning. In my work, I place special emphasis on dynamics and geometry to emphasize the inner strength of the people portrayed and to tell their stories visually.Based in Stuttgart, I work worldwide in the portrait and fashion sector.

Landscape photography has been my passion for over 13 years. From coasts and beaches to mountains and valleys, I feel at home outdoors in nature all over Europe.My aim is to finish the picture in the camera so that little or no post-processing is necessary.&nbsp;It is also necessary to visit some places several times in order to capture them in the perfect light.Photography serves as the perfect balance for my sometimes stressful everyday life and is my retreat. I call it a vacation for the mind and soul when I'm on a photographic mission.

I'm Daniel and I particularly enjoy documenting the cold regions photographically. In recent years, I have completed several photo expeditions to wintry Iceland. The highlight in 2024 was an expedition to the Arctic lasting several weeks. If anyone is interested in realizing an expedition to the Antarctic, I would be there.