This year, Verzasca Foto Festival explores encounters with others and with oneself through activities and exhibitions on projects from artist residencies, the winner of Nera di Verzasca, and an exhibition realised in collaboration with Swiss museums and organisations.

Created in collaboration with the Fondazione Monte Verità, la scia del monte or the magnetic utopians brings together 26 contemporary artists, whose creations have been inspired by Monte Verità and its surrounding aura, to resonate with the genius of the place and its female figures.

Architectures sometimes difficult to distinguish, it is not clear what is what.
A school looks like a prison, a residential building looks like a factory, a shopping center resembles a hospital.

Monozygotes is a photographic essay consisting of almost 60 years of images of Caroline Minjolle twin sister and her. This collection of pictures is the diary of their shared memory, of those all too rare moments that bring them together.

Whether on the poster wall in the children’s room, on newspaper front pages, in Hollywood films, on the pedestals of monuments or on social media: We find the beloved, the praised and the hyped everywhere. But what actually characterizes heroes?

Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower or the pyramids of Teotihuacán: On the occasion of the European Heritage Day, we open the display archive of the Ringier Bildarchiv (RBA), browse through thousands of original prints and negatives and explore the global journeys of architectural images with the help of press photography.

«A New Gaze 4: Community» by Art Vontobel explores the complexity of communities, formed around shared values yet prone to conflict. This edition of the award examines the impact of politics, digitalization, pandemics, and war. It features winners Emidio Battipaglia and Augustin Lignier, who explore non-verbal communication and human-nature-AI networking.

“A New Gaze 4: Community” by Art Vontobel explores the complexity of communities, formed around shared values yet prone to conflict. This edition of the award examines the impact of politics, digitalization, pandemics, and war. It features winners Emidio Battipaglia and Augustin Lignier, who explore non-verbal communication and human-nature-AI networking. The tour will be conducted in English (and French on request). Registration is required.

Every two years, the Archivio Audiovisivo di Capriasca e Val Colla (Ticino) commissions a photographer to engage in a dialogue with the images preserved in its archive. In this context, Benoit Chattaway (b. 1986) was appointed to interact with the photographic works of Domenico Quirici (1852-1910), an amateur photographer who documented his homeland and its inhabitants in the 1890s.

Couples are omnipresent in photography – in historical photo albums just as much as on Instagram. More fascinating than idealised self-portraits though, are shots in which couples do not pose, but seem to be genuinely themselves. The exhibition shows an interplay of closeness and distance, togetherness and loneliness.

Lars Willumeit in conversation with Nadia Schneider Willen (in German).

Bernard Voïta (*1960 in Cully, VD) is one of the outstanding photographic artists of our time. His series Melencolia is being presented comprehensively for the first time at Fotostiftung Schweiz: large-format tableaus based on real installations in his studio – a meticulously organised disorder that challenges our ideas of reality.

«Scenescape» is the twenty-third exhibition organized by the Rolla Foundation. All works on display belong to the Rolla Collection.

We are pleased to inform that you can book a guided tour of the Scenescape exhibition,
the Foundation’s archive and the Rolla Collection.

Space is limited, registration required until 23 September 2024 at contact@rolla.info.

Olga Cafiero takes over Plateforme 10’s Le Signal L space at the suggestion of Photo Elysée and Naturéum.

To mark the centenary of Sabine Weiss’s birth (1924-2021), Photo Elysée is presenting an exhibition that pays tribute to the photographer and has invited the visual artist Nathalie Boutté (France, 1967) to engage in dialogue with her work.

The exhibition “Memories” shows contemporary photographic works at Museum Thalwil.

The exhibition shows excerpts from the work “Lieux de mémoire”, in collaboration with the BelleVue on the theme of  crime scenes.

In the exhibition «Swiss Press Photo 24» by the Reinhardt von Graffenried Foundation, the Swiss National Library is presenting from 17 July to 11 October 2024 the best Swiss press photographs from last year.

The NZZ photographer Dominic Nahr, photographer of the year, shares his experiences during a tour of the exhibition «Swiss Press Photo 2024» (in German).

The works of Sabine Hess and Daniel Jack Lyons come together in this exhibition, designed for the Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence at HUG, which pays tribute to human resilience and the power of images to represent and convey one’s own experience and that of others.

Bringing together the work of over twenty Swiss and international artists, “When Images Take Care” explores the ways in which a practice of image-making can become a practice of care: caring for oneself, for others, for one’s community, for one’s history, for one’s narratives.

For the third time, the IPFO is presenting an exclusive insight into the work of the best Swiss photographers. At this year’s edition, around 50 works will be shown at the House of Photography over the course of a month. For the first time, a newcomer prize will be awarded in each category.

Discover the press archive of the former consumer magazine “Heim und Leben”, which documented social change in the 1930s to 1960s like no other medium. The selection of photographic positions from all language regions of Switzerland also offers some new discoveries.

As part of the long-term series “Berge bleichen”, Sandro Livio Straube presents the continuation of his work with the new series, “diffus”. This exhibition invites viewers to immerse themselves in a world of blurred images characterised by light – ephemeral moments of the uncontrollable that are shaped by chance.

The artist talk with Sandro Livio Straube is conducted by Melody Gygax, Swiss Agent MAGNUM PHOTOS. The event will be held in German.

La Maison de Dieu is a shelter, a refuge, a space of freedom for people in need of a roof. This place allows everyone to be welcomed, to take the time to recover. Bearing witness to these unique forms of life is, for Elsa Beaumont, a poetic and political act, attempts to respond to a society generally in crisis.

Artist Marwan Bassiouni, educator Asmaa Dehbi (INES Institut Neue Schweiz) and curator Maria-Cecilia Quadri (akku) will guide through the exhibition «New Swiss Views» at akku Kunstplattform, running from August 31st to October 6th 2024. The event takes place in English, with translations in German and French available.

This fall the Associazione Biennale dell’immagine presents the screening «Visages» by Audrey Cavélius at Casa Pessina in Ligornetto.

Visit of artist Rownak Bose’s camera obscura Schaulager, with exhibition and aperitif. Rownak Bose is one of the most established camera obscura specialists. He has been working with this technique since the age of 15 and has continuously developed and perfected it. Various self-made cameras will be on display and visitors will have the opportunity to have their portrait taken using this technique.

Visit of artist Rownak Bose’s camera obscura Schaulager, with exhibition and aperitif. Rownak Bose is one of the most established camera obscura specialists. He has been working with this technique since the age of 15 and has continuously developed and perfected it. Various self-made cameras will be on display and visitors will have the opportunity to have their portrait taken using this technique.

Guided tour of the exhibition “Werner Bischof: Colours & Black & White” with Marco Bischof, son of Werner Bischof and director of the Werner Bischof Estate (in German).

Wilde is thrilled to present the latest series by Swiss photographer Yann Gross in Basel. In the exhibition “Greetings”, Yann Gross explores the mutations of the contemporary world through the figure of the palm tree.

Swiss artist and cultural researcher Janis Polar invites art and science enthusiasts to his Basel studio for an exclusive glimpse into his current projects. The two works in progress, focusing on deep-sea mining and historiography as well as coloniality in the Antarctic, explore complex socio-ecologies, the diverse threats they face, and the artist’s own complicity in these issues. The visit is followed by an aperitif, offering a chance for further dialogue and exchange.

Discover a hidden world of visual treasures! Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the ETH Library’s image archive and be surprised by the unexpected variety of images. Our guided tour will show you the rich collection of photographs and other visual documents that document more than just the history of ETH Zurich and its research. The tour will be conducted in German.

The polyphonic exhibition in collaboration with F + F, School of Art and Design Zurich presents the result of the Summer School, which is held in July 2024 under the title “Beloved, Used, and Contaminated Soil. An Approach” and is dedicated to the topic of ecology.

Summer School participants: Chloé Babatinca, Yannick Billinger, Aglaia Brändli, Claudia Breitschmid, Aisha Däster, Ursula Engel, David Escobar, Fabienne Gantenbein, Anna Gornacki, Peter Hauser, Lea Hüppe, Melda Karaali, Julia Kopp, Sara Pastor, Michael Schmid, David Scholl, Seraina Semmelroggen, Thomas Stöckli, BamBu Schwarz, Elena Morena Weber.

The polyphonic exhibition in collaboration with F + F, School of Art and Design Zurich presents the result of the Summer School, which is held in July 2024 under the title “Beloved, Used, and Contaminated Soil. An Approach” and is dedicated to the topic of ecology.

Summer School participants: Chloé Babatinca, Yannick Billinger, Aglaia Brändli, Claudia Breitschmid, Aisha Däster, Ursula Engel, David Escobar, Fabienne Gantenbein, Anna Gornacki, Peter Hauser, Lea Hüppe, Melda Karaali, Julia Kopp, Sara Pastor, Michael Schmid, David Scholl, Seraina Semmelroggen, Thomas Stöckli, BamBu Schwarz, Elena Morena Weber.

At the annual portfolio viewing event, 42 selected international photographers and artists offer an insight into their work.

The exhibition Organique(s) brings together in a single cycle two complementary series, Le Petit Théâtre des Vanités (2015-2019), which won the Prix de la Fondation Léonard Gianadda Mécénat 2022, and Botanik, a work begun in 2021 that also explores the tenuous point of rupture that separates – or connects – the still living from the already deceased.

The exhibition presents Henry Leutwyler’s work based on the archives of photographer Philippe Halsman. Featuring his countless personal belongings, he has created a biography of the famous photographer through his objects.

The Swiss Visual Arts Biennial is back with its unique concept from 7 to 29 September 2024! More than 50 site-specific outdoor and indoor photographic installations in Vevey’s streets and parks, on the facades of its building, in its museums and galleries, and even on Lake Geneva. To be discovered free of charge throughout Vevey.

Just over thirty years after his premature death, MASI Lugano is dedicating a major new exhibition to the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, 1943- Reggio Emilia, 1992).

Guided tour through the exhibition «Women by Women». The exhibition gives a glimpse into the Ackermann’s Collection, showing a selection of works by female photographers with a wide variety of themes from intimate self-portraits to documentary works.

After eight years in Europe, William Klein returned to the city of his birth in 1954 at the age of 26. New York is familiar and yet strange to him. The city in which he had once felt excluded had changed dramatically. He decided to radically re-capture New York – subjectively, intuitively and with unexpected perspectives. He portrays the booming metropolis, the city of Coca-Cola, Wall Street, big cars and flashing billboards as a dark, harsh and oppressive place – and creates his most famous and at the same time most influential work: the photo book ‘New York 1954-1955’. He was perhaps the first photographer to design the book integrally himself: in photography, typography, layout, cover design and text. It is considered a milestone in the history of photography, which freed photography from its narrow conventional corset.

With a collection of video presentations exploring the process and practice of 14 artists, the pool collective and Photoforum Pasquart will host a screening and networking event at PROZESS Bar in Bern.

“How like a leaf I am“ by Alexandra Baumgartner illuminates the complex relationships between humans and plants. Through photographs and audio installations, the exhibition encourages reflection on our responsibility to protect and preserve biodiversity.

With a collection of video presentations exploring the process and practice of 14 artists, the pool collective and Photoforum Pasquart will host a screening and networking event at PROZESS Bar in Bern.

Founded in 2019, HEAD photographies is a collection of the particularly unique approaches to photography by students at the Haute école d’art et de design de Genève. All HEAD photographies publications are freely accessible at the entrance of the library on the HEAD Campus.

Exhibition by 2nd & 3rd year students at HEAD’s exhibition space LiveInYourHead. The exhibition showcases the diversity of practices linked to still and moving images.

A conversation with Laurence Kubski, laureate of the fourteenth Enquête photographique fribourgeoise. The photographer will be giving a sneak preview of her work for the Enquête, and in particular the resulting photobook Sauvages (to be published by Textuel), from the fieldwork to the layout, along with other projects by the artist.

blackprint presents the first photographic exhibition in Switzerland by French artist Olli Bery, «The Wrath of Dispossession». A unique photographic project over ten years (2012 – 2022) composed of research works, limited editions, and original unique prints.

standard/deluxe presents the two artists Yvan Alvarez and Dylan Hausthor in an exhibition that will feature new works.

Please join us for a guided tour of the Nicola Erni Collection in Zug, an extensive art collection with a focus on photography and contemporary art. The number of participants is limited to 15 people. The guided tour will be held in German.

In the studio, the profession of analog photo retoucher is demonstrated using original tools and examples. The possibilities of photo restoration will be presented using current examples. Nadine Reding is fascinated by the materiality of photography, among other things, and will convey this through her study collection. The tour will be followed by an aperitif riche for a photographic exchange.

The result of a close collaboration between the Alt+1000 photography festival and the Parc naturel régional du Doubs Horloger (France), the immersive residency by photographer and film-maker Laura Henno weaves together the close and complex relationships between individuals and landscapes.

Take a look inside the photo depot and join us on an exclusive tour of the Swiss National Museum’s diverse photo collection with selected original objects.

near. association is happy to announce the launch of the new website!
We are inviting you to celebrate it with us, meet near. committee, member photographers and see their work, meet the near. network, enjoy the presentation of the new website and just have a fun time!

In POSITIONS extended, the BA Camera Arts programme at University of Applied Arts and Sciences – Design Film Art will offer the opportunity to meet exciting international experts and artists from the photography world and gain insights into their work, thinking and creation through the form of a performative dialogue.

The HF Photography course offers a public portfolio review, aimed at students and those interested in photography, and gives the opportunity to exchange ideas with image professionals Ana Martinez, image editor Annabelle, and Lea Truffer, former image director at the NZZ.

The Fondation Louis Moret in Martigny presents a monographic exhibition of Zurich-based artist Małgorzata Stankiewicz (b. 1986, Poland), featuring several bodies of works that span the photographic work produced by the artist since 2016.

The CROP UP festival is a dynamic forum for contemporary image culture, taking place over ten days in art spaces and on the streets of Basel. It brings together avant-garde artists from Switzerland and abroad to showcase their photograph-like works of art.

The photographers of the 19th century left us images of monuments, towns and faces, but also moments of encounter between people and nature. The Bibliothèque de Genève reveals in photos one of the first phases in the rise of Western tourism, a social, economic and cultural construction that has now become global.

As we approach the 200th anniversary of photography in 2027, Patricia von Ah from SEETHINK Lab introduces the Zero Baseline of Photography, a pioneering initiative aimed at redefining our engagement with photography’s transformative journey. The talk will be held in English.

Organised to mark the publication of the latest issue of the journal “Transbordeur. Photographie, histoire, société”, this round table is dedicated to the many connections between photography and ecology since the end of the 19th century. The event will be held in French.

«We Do The Rest» is a performative event that questions the limits of photography. In collaboration with artist Augustin Lignier, students in the Master Photography program at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne invite the public to an exceptional evening in the school’s main hall.