Annina Mettler

A report about the beautiful girls from the city of Berne with photographs by Annina Mettler, one of the nominees for the ewz.selection photo award 2007.

Photographs: © Annina Mettler

ewz.selection 2010

ewz.selection, the Swiss platform for contemporary photography, awards the eighteen best photographic works of the year this coming weekend. The exhibition with opening night party, panel discussions, sofa talks, pictures soirées, workshops and live shootings makes the ewz-eventhall a vibrant meeting place for photo lovers.

ewz.selection will be celebrating its 10th birthday with new photo prizes and the exhibition catalogue "Bilderwahn" newly designed by Tania Prill and Alberto Vieceli.

The nominees for the ewz.selection photo award are:

Reto Albertalli, Morbio Inferiore; Peter Bohler, Los Angeles; Annette Boutellier, Bern; Patrik Fuchs, Zürich; Denis Jutzeler, Petit-Lancy; Jonathan Heyer, Zürich; Irina Polin, Bern; Jacek Pulawski, Chiasso; Peter Püntener, Zürich; Nicolas Righetti, Genf; Meinrad Schade, Zürich; Nico Schärer, Zürich; Christof Schürpf, Luzern; Christoph Schütz, Fribourg; Gabi Vogt, Zürich; Nicholas Winter, Basel; Luca Zanier, Zürich; Andreas Zimmermann und Tobias Sutter, Münchenstein.


Photographs: © Gabi Vogt / Meinrad Schade

gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie 2009/2010

Photograph: Philipp Dorl, ... nach Mass, Zahl und Gewicht, www.guteaussichten.org


Photograph: Anna Simone Wallinger, Container, www.guteaussichten.org


Photograph: Ute Klein, Resonanzgeflechte, www.guteaussichten.org

gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie is a project set up in 2004 as a private initiative in support of talented young photographers. The core element of the project is an annual competition for final portfolios submitted to all German universities, universities of applied sciences and academies offering a course of study in photography. (Text: gute aussichten)
The exhibition gute aussichten 2009/2010 at Marta Museum in Herford is shown until January 10th 2010.
Congratulations to the eight winners: Georg Brückmann, HGB Leipzig; Philipp Dorl, FH Bielefeld; Sonja Kälberer, HGB Leipzig; Ute Klein, Folkwang Hochschule Essen; Ingo Mittelstaedt, HBK Braunschweig; Mona Mönnig, Folkwang Hochschule Essen; Shigeru Takato, KHM Köln and (with a special well done!) to my schooldays-friend Anna Simone Wallinger, Lette-Verein Berlin.
Pictures from Anna Simone Wallinger can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

Hey, Hot Shot! competition 2009

Donald Weber


Hosang Park

Jen Bekman Projects is happy to announce the opening of the 2009 Second Edition Hey, Hot Shot! competition. Entries will be accepted now through Friday, October 23rd, 2009. All entrants have their work reviewed by top-shelf panelists and enjoy the potential to be promoted online on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog, selected for 20x200 and exhibited in their New York gallery.
The five photographers who won the 2008 competition were Yijun Liao, John Mann, Cara Phillips, Hosang Park and Donald Weber.
Photographs: © Donald Weber & Hosang Park

ED-Awards 2009: Gold for Formdusche

The four book-journals for 'project 68/89' from Berlin-based design office Formdusche were awarded Gold in the category book layout at the European Design Awards festival 2009 in Zürich.

Further Gold winners 2009:
Vidale-Gloesener Sarl, Lava grafisch ontwerpers, Bleed, Fuenfwerken Design AG, a part, Dietwee, Vier für Texas, Jäger & Jäger, Studio Laucke, Creative Inc, Sole 24 ore Spa, Moving Brands, Nomint Motion Design, Punchcard, Aer visual studio, Remo Caminada graphic design, Edenspiekermann, Designbolaget, Thijs Verbeek grafisch ontwerp, Enric Jardí disseny gràfic, KMS TEAM GmbH, Susanne Stahl & André Gottschalk, Suitcase Type Foundry, Graphic design studio by Yurko Gutsulyak, Ando bv, Bendita Gloria, bauer konzept & gestaltung gmbh, Adrian Frutiger

Markus Georg

Stonehenge


Brandenburger Tor


9eleven

With 'Die Macht der Bilder', German photographer Markus Georg won ‘Gute Aussichten’, a photography thesis contest. Markus wants us to think about the power of well-known images like Stonehenge. The ‘Gute Aussichten’ exhibition at DZ Bank in Frankfurt is shown until July 10th 2009.
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Photographs: © Markus Georg

Ester Vonplon: winner of the Swiss Photo Award 2009

Swiss photographer and former skateboarder Ester Vonplon, born 1980 in Switzerland and living in Berlin, is the winner of the Swiss Photo Award 2009. Her grainy and atmospheric black-and-white photographs of a village in Kosovo convinced the jury. An interview with Ester about this Kosovo project is published here. Further prize winners are Jonathan Heyer, Andri Pol, Vanessa Püntener and Roger Eberhard. The exhibition can be seen until May 17th at ewz Selnau in Zürich.
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Photographs: © Ester Vonplon from the series 'wenn das wetter nicht mehr kaputt ist, werden wir spazieren gehen'

Sophie Brasey: 'vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis' winner 2009

GLOSSY DREAM, ECAL 2008. COLLABORATION WITH ANNE-MARIE PAPPAS


PRISM, SUMMER 2008. COLLABORATION WITH YANN GROSS


ECAL 2007

Yesterday the 'vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis' (Swiss award for young photographers) was awarded. Sodagrapher Ueli Alder was one of the nominees, the 2009 winner is Sophie Brasey, born 1985 and just finished ECAL. The exhibition will be shown until May 21th at BINZ39 in Zürich.
Photographs: © Sophie Brasey

James Clar

Media artist James Clar creates art by visualising technology in a new way. He "has been recognized by numerous publications such as Architectural Lighting, Mark, Axis, IdN, including being awarded the 'Design Distinction Award' by I.D. Magazine 2004 for his thesis project done at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication’s Program." (jamesclar.com)

For informations about James' influences you should read this ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING Magazine interview.

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Peter Franck

Germany-based photographer Peter Franck has won several awards like the 'Canon ProFashional Award'. Now Peter was recently awarded second place with some remarkable pictures at 'Sony World Photography Awards' in the category Advertising. His pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
Photograph: © Peter Franck

ED-Awards / ED-Festival 2009

The ED-Awards (European Design Awards) is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. Last year's award winner in the category magazine was Netherlands-based agency Lesley Moore with 'MARK', an inspiring architecture mag.
The ED-Festival 2009 takes place in Zurich and will include the ED-Conference (15-17th May), the ED-Award ceremony (17th May), several Design Walks and other design events. The program is published here.
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geschossen + gedruckt 2009

The printing house Seltmann from Lüdenscheid/Germany produces extravagant books & catalogues and awards advertising photos for the 4th time. C/O Berlin, The Cultural Forum for Photography, shows the 'geschossen + gedruckt' ('shot + printed') exhibition between April 18th and May 17th, 2009. Opening and award presentation will be held on April 18th, 2009.
Above image is the winning photo from geschossen + gedruckt 2007 in the 'Product in Use' category by Zurich photographer Gabi Vogt. The image was shot during an 'Artist in Residence' stay in Romania and shows a Dacia hulk.
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Photograph: © Gabi Vogt

VisualLeader / LeadAwards 2009

The nominations and winners of the LeadAwards 2009 will be presented in the House of Photography of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg for the fourth time from March 14th to April 26th, 2009. More informations at deichtorhallen.de.
Above image is the winning photo from the LeadAwards 2008 in the category fashion photography.
Photograph: © Geoffrey Cottenceau + Romain Rousset

Noë Flum

Zurich photographer Noë Flum regularly shoots for Swiss magazine 'Das Magazin'. Above picture is from an article about "Does animals have feelings?" from 2008, for more pictures click here. Below picture from an article about surgery won the Audience Award from ewz.selection 2007, for more pictures click here.

Photographs: © Noë Flum

Lou Mora

San Diego-based photographer Lou Mora is "a firm believer that less is more", runs a worth seeing Blog and is winner of the 'GO INDIE photo contest' award.
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Photograph: © Lou Mora

Things I have learned in my life so far

Sagmeister Inc. is a graphic design company in New York City. Stefan Sagmeister started a project based on a list in his diary where he wrote down things he has learned in his life so far. For example, after running a charity project for homeless in NYC for three years, Sagmeister learned "Starting a charity is surprisingly easy, running a charity is surprisingly hard". There is also a book published, consisting of 15 unbound signatures in a laser-cut slipcase. For this project, Sagmeister won the Leadaward 2008.

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Festival of Visual Arts in Vevey

From January 2009, as part of Images, the Festival of Visual Arts in Vevey, Switzerland, the Foundation 'Vevey: Ville d’Images' is inviting entries for the 5th European First Film Awards and the 7th International Vevey Photo Awards. Register online to the photography or cinema competition. The deadline for the submission of projects is April 30th 2009.
Photograph: © Geert Goiris, »Whiteout«, 2008
6th International Vevey Photo Awards winner

Horse paradise Island

German photographer Ina Johanna Gecke has been dreaming from "horse paradise" Island since her younger days. She finally visited the most happy horses of the world and produced a stunning portrait series, published as "portfolio of the month" in GEO.de.

Pictures of Ina Johanna Gecke can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

Photograph: © Ina Johanna Gecke, published at GEO.de

Snowboard Season 2008

Can't wait to check out my new board...and hope to see some fresh images from Swiss photographer Lozza soon!
Photograph: Gian Paul Lozza, winning picture of the Illumination category from The Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2006 photography competition.

Linz wird Kulturhauptstadt 2009

Die österreichische Stadt Linz wird Europas Kulturhauptstadt 2009. Bilder vom Lentos-Kunstmuseum, der Landesgalerie, dem Dom sowie diverse Aufnahmen von der Altstadt zeigt die Bildagentur Sodapix in einem Showcase.

Foto: Rainer Mirau, Kirchtürme und Museum Lentos, www.sodapix.com