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international photography exhibition Swiss Photo’13 is the first in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the art of photography, digital painting and image manipulation.

After months of planning and testing our new exhibition concept and methods, we are very happy with the final results, which promise to be well received by photographers around the world.

We were able to collaborate with great artists and create this unique exhibition, a first in the history of Swiss Art Space contemporary photography shows.

Amazing art and media at the same time, Photography is capable of showing the emotions of our lives and the rhythms of time we are living in.

One description for that is the beautiful observation from Kate Morton, “It is a cruel, ironical art, photography.

The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down”… …See you soon at our new exhibitions in 2014!

D S Stefanovich Swiss Art Space

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K Kees Smans 26, 74 Khrissy 16, 74

B Bernard Landon

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N Nielk 20, 73

C Carla Silva 27, 71 Chris Vanden Broeke 62, 71 Christophe Racat 44, 71

O Oera 21, 75

D Daniel Calderon Dave Gaylord Dhini Ariestyan Donald Cohen Donald T Iannone

12, 71 49, 72 39, 72 45, 72 32, 72

E Elisabeth Rass Elise Guillod Elise Heuberger

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F Federico Anda

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G Guillemette Colomb Goran M

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H Heidi Hostettler Hélène Tobler

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I Irene Christen-Dürig

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J Jaap de Jonge Jacques Rattaz Jean-Yves Piffard Jennifer Robin Caras Jeremy Spierer Joanna Shama Joshua Marshall Julien Pisenti

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A Alain Deppen Alessandro Della Bella Alex Falcao Alex Schauwecker Alex Teuscher Alexis Reynaud Aline Fournier Anke van den Berg

L Lukas Maede

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M Maria Klimek Marion Landon Meindert Versteeg Milan P Kicevac

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P Paolo Masi 8, 75 P Matthey-des-Bornels 59, 77 Q Quirino Spinelli

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R Régis Colombo Reinhard Görner Reto Baroni

43, 75 30, 75 15, 76

S Sasa Pappa Simone Pomata Souradeep Ghosh Stéphane Dussex

36, 76 51, 76 50, 76 17, 76

T Teresa Neal Tiziano Caffi Tobias Indermuehle Tomoya Matsuura

24, 76 38, 76 37, 76 64, 77

V Vishwajeet Rana Wayne Henderson

22, 77 65, 77

Y Yves Ryncki

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Paolo Masi | The Maskic

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Alain Deppen | Jessie

Alex Falcao | Ophelia Rises II

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Federico Anda | Janette 1014

Daniel Calderon | No title

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.�

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Diane Arbus

Bernard Landon | Reichenbach Justine

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Jacques Rattaz | Sarah Lilith

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.�

Ansel Adams 14 |

Reto Baroni | Breast

Khrissy | X-Rays

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StĂŠphane Dussex | Violon Soliste

Lukas Maede | Theophilus London

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Jeremy Spierer | King

“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”

Abraham Lincoln

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Nielk | Naked Fragrance

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

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Karl Lagerfeld

Oera | Foam

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Vishwajeet Rana | Lord Shiva and Lover

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Elisabeth Rass | State Of Play

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Teresa Neal | Smugglers Fire

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Guillemette Colomb | Autoportrait G. Lyon

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Kees Smans | Amsterdam

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Carla Silva | Loneliness

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.�

Marc Riboud

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Alex Schauwecker | Ghosts before breakfast / 3

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Marion Landon | Octobre équilibre

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”

Eudora Welty | 29

Reinhard Gรถrner | Pergamon Museum

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Anke van den Berg | Empty Space

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Donald T Iannone | Takeoff

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Elise Guillod | The Farm

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.�

Dorothea Lange

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Jaap de Jonge | Mustang

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Aline Fournier | Illusion / Model: Laure Massard

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

Ansel Adams | 35

Sasa Pappa | No

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.�

Susan Sontag 36 |

Tobias Indermuehle | Excessive Lifestyle

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Tiziano Caffi | Testardo

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Dhini Ariestyani | A speck of curiosity

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes.

But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!�

Ted Grant | 39

Alexis Reynaud | Skiers 2013 - 4475

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Elise Heuberger | Wanderlust 001

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.�

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Quirino Spinelli | Secondo

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Régis Colombo | Sahara

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

Ansel Adams

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Christophe Racat | ForĂŞt primaire

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Donald Cohen | Lavaux 1

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Alessandro Della Bella | Helvetia by Night 1

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Alex Teuscher | Setting sun on the Peak

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

Ansel Adams | 47

Milan P Kicevac | L’espérance - The Aegean Sea

“Photography is all about secrets.

The secrets we all have and will never tell.”

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Kim Edwards

Dave Gaylord | The Odyssey

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Souradeep Ghosh | The setting sun

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Simone Pomata | Matterhorn Volcano

“Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have somone click the shutter.”

Ansel Adams

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Goran M | Mirror in the Sky

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Yves Ryncki | Birds above the beach

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.�

Ansel Adams

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Heidi Hostettler | Air (Underwater photogrpahy)

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Irene Christen-Dürig | Sunlit 1

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

Susan Sontag | 55

Hélène Tobler | Metal two

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Jennifer Robin Caras | Surfaces

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Jean-Yves Piffard | Spirale 3

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Pierre Matthey-des-Bornels | Le Flon

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Joshua Marshall | Water Bottle

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Joanna Shama | Rust

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Chris Vanden Broeke | Bis Blue

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Julien Pisenti | FumĂŠe Radiographie / 02

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Tomoya Matsuura | Cell

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Wayne Henderson | Maple Abstract

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Maria Klimek | 03574

“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

Ansel Adams 66 |

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Alain Deppen

Alex Falcao

Alex Teuscher

Ophelia Rises II

Setting sun on the Peak / detail

Jessie

Norway

United States of America

Quêteur de la beauté du monde, des gens et des choses…

I usually work with the obscure as a form of beauty, contrary of the idea of the usual clean-pure aesthetics. The contrasts of lights and darkness, feelings completing each other, like yin-yang, the good and the evil. The darkness surfaces the light and forms a whole aesthetic equilibrium. Like in real life.

It is the art of photography itself that I find inspiration and expression in.

Alex Schauwecker

Alexis Reynaud

Switzerland

Ghosts before breakfast_3

Skiers 2013-4475 / detail

”Helvetia by Night“ is a personal time-lapse project I have been working on since 2010.

The space of imagination is wide open for a free circulation of ideas and concepts that find their way into my sketches and drawings.

I do not think and work in terms of contrasts, of „either-or“. My art discovers the common ground of both worlds and challenges the conventional perception of reality.

They are tiny. Barely visible at first glance, then slowly as if the eye sudenly focused, they appear as little skiers confronting The Mountain.

Where are they? What time of day?

With theses overexposed and untouched pictures, I threw one off guard - sometimes people think that it is a drawing or a calligraphy and they do not have the feeling of being in front of a photo.

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Alessandro Della Bella

Helvetia by Night 1

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Aline Fournier

Bernard Landon

Chris Vanden Broeke

Guillemette Colomb

Illusion / Model: Laure Massard

Reichenbach Justine

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Bis Blue

Switzerland

My inspirations primarily come from my country, the people and their lifestyles, combined with my sensitivity of the worldwide influences. This particular view on the world determined by my sensory loss as well as my fascination for advertisement leads me to compose, throughout photography, visual sceneries.

Passionate and always fascinated by the body, a picture or the sensations of the dance, freestyle skiing, windsurfing, paragliding the adrenaline shooters!

I enhance the pregnant woman and seek to abolish taboos and prejudices engendered by our culture of nakedness.

Abstract night photography where only LED lamps were used to create a subject from the void.

My rule of thumb: only the pure light, the direct light should tell a story, ask questions or give answers.

It has taught me one thing: light is inexhaustible, light is always pregnant.

Je suis passionnée par l’image en général. J’admire beaucoup CartierBresson, Doisneau et Marcel Imsand et avec le sujet photographié.

J’aime jouer avec les contrastes et les reflets. Mes sujets sont aussi bien les personnes, les métiers que les paysages urbains ou campagnards.

Anke van den Berg

Carla Silva

Christophe Racat

Daniel Calderon

Empty Space

Loneliness / detail

Forêt primaire

No title

Netherlands

Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland

My work blends elements of photography, digital manipulation and animation. The subjects I use mostly deal with deserted man-made structures and urban landscapes.

Keen on photography for several years, I quickly focused on street photography. My shots are seeking to take a look at the scenes of daily life, at the human existence.

I take my subjects spontaneously in public places.

The choice of black and white is such a simple aesthetic decision: the absence of color allows you to focus more on the composition of the image. Ansel Adams: ”You don’t take a picture, you make it“.

I am a relatively wild man, enjoying solitude in the wilderness, looking for the human lack of civilization. I need to walk in the primary forest hidden and difficult to access. Wild, quiet and soothing. Rain, snow, cold do not scare me, they isolate me from the world. My photos inspire me for simple stories.

Mode, beauté, portrait, glamour.

Recherches personnelles sur pulsions, narcissisme et angoisses dans l’érotisme et ses rituels contemporains…

Autoportrait G. Lyon

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Dave Gaylord

Donald Cohen

Elisabeth Rass

Elise Heuberger

The Odyssey

Lavaux 1

State Of Play / Serie: Stadt / Menschen - Menschen / Stadt

Wanderlust 001 / detail

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Switzerland

Austria

Switzerland

My passion is to create images that open your mind to imagination and fantasy. I am most comfortable in nature, with primary focus on moving water. In this image I created a “Dreamscape” using clouds to separate the sky from the ocean, giving depth to the horizon and having the sunlight give color and brightness.

Landscape is not all that I do, but after 18 years in film production, the golden rule is ”wait for the light.“ Using cameras with up to twelve frames a second isn’t going to help you. One single exposure at a time, at a precise moment, like in the old days - and I’m no chicken.

Ich kenne die Stadt, bin aufgewachsen am Rand der Stadt, sah die Veränderungen. Jetzt lebe ich fast im Zentrum der Stadt, lebe ich jetzt besser?Ich weiß es nicht.

Die Irritationen nehmen zu, die Veränderungen auch die der Stadt und meine.

The ”Wanderlust“ set of photographs places the spectator face to face with a particular ambiance, where all the guidelines are lost in the fog. In doing so, the emptiness appears to reveal the nuances, fragility and quietude of this space, out of the common photogenic aesthetic.

Dhini Ariestyani

Donald T Iannone

Elise Guillod

Federico Anda

A speck of curiosity / detail

Takeoff

The Farm

Switzerland

United States of America

Switzerland

Janette1014 / detail

Taking pictures of people feels to me as if we are telling secret messages without even saying a word. It evokes all my senses when interpreting the emotions behind their eyes. Photography allows me to express the real me, without boundaries.

I am an American fine arts photographer based in Cleveland, Ohio. I hold a Master of Arts Degree in Art and Consciousness Studies. I have published 3 books of photography and I am currently working on a new book on the theory and philosophy of photography.

I really focus on the light. I try to reveal places in a way we are not used to see them, in a fictional atmosphere, particularly the countryside where I was raised.

The landscape becomes a fascinating and unlimited space for my imagination.

This is part of my ”contradictoryportraits“ series, in which I intend to catch the ”good“ and the ”bad“ face of the subject, both at the same time. All the photos of this series are made with a double exposition in the same negative and with a middle format camera, those ones in which you can draw in the focusing screen.

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Nielk

Hélène Tobler

Naked Fragrance

Jaap de Jonge

Jean-Yves Piffard

Mustang

Spirale 3

Switzerland

Metal two

Netherlands

Switzerland

I am a creator, an explorer in pop culture that likes to tackle the concepts of our times through different artistic media. With my camera, I like to play with colors, light and travelling with the idea of my subject.

Mon intérêt pour l’humain et sa curiosité l’emmènent sur des terrains variés où l’enquête photographique se mêle à un enjeu esthétique et ouvre à un regard personnel sur le monde.

My imageries are documentary in character and expose daily life through chilling observations.

The street becomes a ”Playground of Thoughts“, sometimes empty, but mostly surprising, intriguing.

Ultimately the viewer will fillin these intensely focused observations with his own frame of reference.

My artistic work is in and with nature. It is a transient, often fragile art form, but it is also a balanced one. I subtly rearrange nature in its creations, but very soon nature reclaims its rights: the ice sculpture melts, the leaves fly away, the winds makes delicate structures collapse, the tides wash away all traces from the sand. It is the realization that nothing belongs to us, it requires detachment and surrender.

Heidi Hostettler

Irene Christen-Dürig

Jacques Rattaz

Jennifer Robin Caras

Air (Underwater photogrpahy)

Sunlit 1

Sarah Lilith / detail

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Switzerland

Switzerland

Surfaces

Ich bin Unterwasserfotografin in der Schweiz, im Süsswasser. Durch meine langjährigen Erfahrungen, auch als Berufsfotografin im Bereich Forschung/People habe Ich den Stil immer weiter entwickelt und sich auf Gestaltung von Stimmungen und flüchtigen Momenten im ”unbesetzten Raum See“ eingelassen.

My camera captures pictures in all parts of the world, in particular manifestations of water in all its shapes and forms. I express my unending fascination with water with images which range from lyrical and poetic to dramatic.

I feel that my artistic soul reveals itself in fashion, portrait, boudoir and nude art photography.

The main asset of a people photographer is its models. I like letting them vent without dictating their position. I prefer a rough picture that expresses a feeling, an atmosphere communicated to the reader of the image.

Study of shell, form, sculpture, superficies, conformation, shape.

A sense of incision, etching, the engraving. Grain to the mould. Nothing is cast. No chisel. A photographic inscription of the sculptor’s carving to texture. So, rawness and to its author, indebtedness.

Not a variety of subliminal fetishes, yet a real one.

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Jeremy Spierer

Joshua Marshall

Kees Smans

Lukas Maede

King / detail

Water Bottle

Amsterdam

Switzerland

The Bahamas

The Netherlands

Theophilus London

I work candidly in an effort to capture real moments of human life and scenes that communicate the culture of a certain area or civilisation. I am inspired by the likes of Vivian Maier, Sergio Larrain and Steve McCurry.

”Art is life.“ My venture into photographic art began when I was 2 years old as a part of my therapy after having a major seizure.

In the three years since then I have developed a keen interest in painting and sculpting. Every day, I try to learn more about these crafts and participate in events that help me develop my artistry for photogrpahy.

As an artist, I consider photography as a medium to express my personal and artistic view on the world. When I use long exposure techniques I am moving away from reality.

Beauty is everywhere.

I work on assignments for various national and international magazines, publications and advertising agencies. Parallel to commissioned activities, I also work on a number of personal projects.

Joanna Shama

Julien Pisenti

Khrissy

Switzerland

Rust

Maria Klimek

03574 / detail

Switzerland

Fumée Radiographie_02

X-Rays

Switzerland

I am self-taught and photography came naturally to me. Life and nature are my constant inspiration.

I find a form of beauty in things that are left behind. Abandoned.

My creative process is very intuitive, led by the energy I find around me.

Images find me.

Forms, colors and textures layer in an almost abstract way and natural compositions emerge.

Aime fixer les petits moments éphémères de la vie, tel que la fumée, les gouttes d’eau, les ciels.

Pratique la macrographies (Insectes, première passion).

L’idée de la fumée est venu en regardent les images de Gainsbourg avec ses Gitanes fumantes.

The inspiration for this photo crossed my mind during a night concert. I chose a slow shutter speed to give the capture of the desired image. This vision shined on my mind. X-Rays is taken of a series of images that I called ”Electric Motion“. Today the photography world takes all the space in my life.

In my art, I like to capture the beauty in mundane objects and places. Different mediums allow me to express different ideas.

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Marion Landon

Milan P Kicevac

Paolo Masi

Régis Colombo

Octobre équilibre

L’espérance

Switzerland

Serbia

The Maskic

Switzerland

11 years of semi-professional dance and intensive practice of various extreme sports, have enabled me to accurately capture the beauty of body movement, gestures as well as the complex poetics of human form.

I love to give time and space to my models to capture the brief moment of complicity between the stage and photography.

Zest for life, passion, love of nature and beautiful sights, manual skills and strong discipline rule my wild heart and a good eye.

Let me show you the globe with my eye

My compositions are like a daydream in which the fragmented memories of the traveler, the thief of always, are mixed in with all the irrationality that makes good memories. They capture the rare essence of places that human activity will soon have reduced to silence.

Meindert Versteeg

Oera

Quirino Spinelli

Sahara / detail

The Netherlands

Reinhard Görner

Secondo

Museu do Açude

Foam

Italy

Pergamon Museum

In my photography I embed my experience of graphic design and architecture within a crossing of different perspectives of the visual world that surrounds my private sky.

With every image of my work, I attempt to tell a story through ordinary things catching the instant, the movement, and never forgetting that beauty can be everywhere.

You just need to want it and be open to look at things out there.

OERA (Overheul Edixhoven Recycled Art) Oera is a collaboration between painter/drawer Sylvie Overheul and photo imager Marcel Edixhoven.

Drawings and paintings are merged with photos till new symbiotic artworks, with both a figurative and abstract suggestion.

Architecture, photography, zest and instinct, convening a state of non-awareness. Grasping new processes, it is about following anything possible. Obsessive detachment from space, either digital or analogue.

Under the spell of feeling, he falls in love.

I am a freelance architectural photographer since 1983. I used to work on assignment for about 20 years, then started to concentrate on free art work.

My prominent field of work became the handling of space to be found in classical architectures such as museums, castles, cathedrals.

‘Suite of Rooms’ could be the superscription of my work.

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Reto Baroni

Simone Pomata

Stéphane Dussex

Tiziano Caffi

Matterhorn Volcano / detail

Breast

Italy

Violon Soliste

Testardo

Je cherche à ”construire“ des instants d’émotion que je capture par la photographie. J’aime travailler avec un modèle, créer cette émotion, la pétrir, la façonner, lui donner corps.

Comme une sculpture qui surgit de la glaise ou de la pierre brute.

Mes outils sont forgés par la séduction, le désir et la sensualité, que j’habille d’ombres ou de lumières…

”Matterhorn Volcano“ was taken during an incredible red sunset in the middle of the Alps. Clouds were completely grey, but in a few moments the situation changed and I was able to take this photo.

Moon in the upper left is just icing on the cake.

Tout au long de ce travail personnel, j’ai tenté d’intégrer au mieux et de la manière la plus esthétique possible divers instruments de musique afin que la rencontre des courbes soit le plus homogène possible. Sobre et sans artifices - l’ensemble de mon travail sur le nu est brut et sans retouches.

The original title of the picture exposed is ”Testardo, apri la mente!“ Stubborn, open your mind!

I minimized it in just a word, as an oxymoron between title and image, like an invocation to the viewer, an invitation to flow his energies.

Testardo was awarded with an honorable mention in the PX3-Prix de la photographie Paris, 2013 competition.

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Sasa Pappa

Souradeep Ghosh

Teresa Neal

Tobias Indermuehle

No / detail

The setting sun / detail

Smugglers Fire / detail

Excessive Lifestyle

Greece

India

United Kingdom

Switzerland

My inspiration is the human being: his everyday life, objects he uses, space he lives in, his body. Everyday images, which often, with a little processing on the computer, provide us with a different sense of aesthetics. New. Diverse. The world can be different. Look at life from another perspective.

Pristine moments of nature and make them immortal through my photographs. This photo was shot while I was traveling on a train, West Bengal, India. The sight was absolutely breathtaking but the electric towers were ruining the scene. I composed the shot so that those towers compliment the shot instead of denunciating it.

My intention is to connect with the subject in order to convey the essence and spirit of that person or place. I then create a narrative subtext using elements in the environment in order to re-interpret the image. Smugglers Fire - a traditional bonfire celebration in Sussex, I used a slow exposure to capture the atmosphere of the event and its emotional impact.

One of my main subjects is Lifestyle.

Most of my pictures show positive and happy looking people.

My picture is one out of a series showing one side of our society which may happen every where: drug misuse. At the beginning a cool lifestyle with good looking people and great party; at the end depression, schizophrenia and social isolation.

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Wayne Henderson

Goran M

Cell

Maple Abstract

Mirror in the Sky

Japan

United States of America

Sweden

The work ”Cell“ is an object created by attaching bubbles to thread.

By expressing through photography, it hints at an organic existence within abstraction. It describes the vigor of life and mystery with a microscopic vision.

Art is the general term for objects which are created primarily to convey meaning and to elicit emotional responses in people through the sensory perceptions of sight or touch. Photography as a specific form of Art focuses on visual perceptions and the capture of a successful photographic image is a matter of seeing the diamond in the rough… The setting sun backlights the red leaves, allowing dramatic contrast with the twilight sky.

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

Aaron Siskind

Vishwajeet Rana

Yves Ryncki

Pierre Matthey-des-Bornels

Lord Shiva and Lover

Birds above the beach

Le Flon

India

Switzerland

Switzerland

This photograph is from a series on Lord Shiva. In Indian mythology he is Mahadev, the supreme God… But besides all the physical attributes and the great protector of universe, there is a man in him.

As an artist, I have tried to capture the man in Shiva and Shiva in every man, and in this image he is captured with his lover.

Au fil du temps, j’ai élargi mon champ d’action à d’autres démarches d’essence maritime. Ainsi une nouvelle approche photographique me conduit le long des côtes, dans les ports ou encore dans les marchés aux poissons pour en tirer des images qui révèlent des ambiances inhabituelles.

Les séries ”Seaside “ et ”Derrière la vague “ apportent, selon les cadrages, les couleurs ou les contrastes, un regard original sur les paysages ou les natures mortes.

L’art se réfère à l’aptitude de l’artiste à maîtriser l’ensemble des techniques qu’il aborde dans ses démarches créatives. L’art, c’est avant tout la création artistique du fait de la capacité à être ému par l’artiste. Par sa dimension esthétique, la création d’oeuvres doit plaire et toucher la sensibilité, l’émotion par les seules formes et l’apparence.

La beauté n’est plus le seul critère artistique d’une oeuvre. Il y a la provocation, l’absurde: c’est aussi une fenêtre ouverte sur le monde que l’on propose.

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swiss art space place suisse des arts schweizer kunstraum founders | Laurence Bettens-Girod & Dragan S. Stefanovich

Thanks

A big thanks to those who made this event better: Laurence, Olivier, El-Jei, Igor, Philip, George, Bene, Greg, Marko, Maya, Wayne and all artists of Swiss Photo’13…

And also… Beba and Sreten Stefanović and the families Bettens and Ivanović for their support and patience.

Dragan & Ivan

Concept, organisation, creation of the exhibition and publishing and production of the Review Swiss Photo’13 Swiss Art Space / SAS Association Swiss Art Space / ASAS Dragan S. Stefanovich | art direction & design Ivan Ivanović | management & organisation Régis Colombo | photography / interieur Patrick Dupont | photography / reproduction Greg Klein | photography / openings Lj Sedlar | music / original video music LjS Productions | video / production Biby Sam | sound logo / original video music

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