Robin Simon

Robin Simon is co-founder of Swiss picture agency Sodapix, a highly talented photographer and last but not least Robin is well on the way to storm the charts with his band Grant Lassie.

Photographs: © Robin Simon

Martin Scott

"It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to. You would cry too if it happened to you." (Lesley Gore)

Martin Scott, born 1984 in Rostock, is the freshest newcomer at Swiss picture agency Sodapix. His homepage doesn't seem to work yet, but there's heavy traffic on his Facebook profile.

Photographs: © Martin Scott

Bastien Lattanzio

Bastien Lattanzio from Paris is the new Sodagrapher at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

Photo 09

Photo 09, the annual exhibition of the best Swiss Photographs, will take place from January 15th to 18th at Maag Event Hall in Zurich.

All infos /// Exhibiting photographers

Photograph: © Ueli Alder, from Photo 08. Ueli's pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

Raphael Yoshitomi

Exhibition opening in Zürich
Sodapix and DruckLive present a one-day pre-Christmas Exhibition of the photographer Raphael Yoshitomi in the arcade of Zürich's Helmhaus.

Exhibition: Wedensday
9. December, from 7pm
Where: Helmhaus Arcade

Raphael Yoshitomi is an artist who traps life and at the same time frees the frozen moment. Whether from a bird's eye perspective or from street level, his protagonists are captured - and together we observe, however we don't feel as a part of the observed. Raphael Yoshitomi is a master of the heat of the moment, his photographs seem to be formally staged, however by longer observation they turn out to be curiously-real and we become the silent witnesses. People become like props, populating the photographs and obeying a larger plan that is chaotically structured.

via Sodapix
Photographs: © Raphael Yoshitomi

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.

Erol Taskoparan

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ERKO00099 /// ERKO00086

Erol Taskoparan, born in 1978, living and working in Stuttgart a.k.a. Benztown, is an amazing self-educated photographer. His street-, portrait and fashion photos are characterized by outstanding quality of emotion and liveliness. Erol is also co-editor of the inspiring online art magazine Neo Collective and co-owner of the bureau for visual communication Egotrips in Stuttgart.
More pictures in Erol's showcase at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

Photographs: © Erol Taskoparan

Stefanie Schweiger

Expressive portraits and Alps-pictures by Berlin-based photographer Stefanie Schweiger.
More pictures in Stefanie's showcase at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
Photographs: © Stefanie Schweiger

Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

Vienna-based photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek did this stunning shooting of a young couple jumping into the Danube (Donau) river in Vienna.
More pictures in Daniel's showcase at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
Photographs: © Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

Simon Høgsberg

Simon Høgsberg is a Danish photographer from Copenhagen. On his website a bunch of amazing projects are displayed, like 'We’re All Gonna Die - 100 Meters of Existence'. "This image is 100 meters long. There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007." (simonhoegsberg.com)



In this interview Simon talks about the title, his his used gear and work proceeding. Simon: "Currently I’m in the process of preparing to exhibit the 100 meter photograph in its full length (100 m x 78 cm) in a public square in Copenhagen in the month of May 2009."
Simon Høgsberg's pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.


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Photographs: © Simon Høgsberg

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

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

NYC Pillow Fight 2009

The NYC Pillow Fight 2009 will happen on Saturday April 4th. Pictures from 2008 of this Newmindspace event can be seen in Daniel Gebhart's showcase at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
via Swissmiss
Photograph: © Daniel Gebhart

Cactuses everywhere

A summerlike cactus photo from German photographer Ina Johanna Gecke. Ina was published before here at Shotspot with her series 'horse paradise', her pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.


Urban Cactus is a housing project in the Vuurplaat section of Rotterdam by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers and done for Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord/Estrade Projecten.


The Cactus Candy Company began with cactus candy made from the fruit of the prickly pear cactus and later introduced pomegranate, lemon, orange, raspberry chipotle, ...


Tokidoki's wildly successful cactus friends line of vinyl figures

via designboom

Editor's Pic(k)s

Swiss picture agency Sodapix shows the collections from nine Photo Editors and Art Buyers, who picked their favourite pictures from the Sodapix picture pool. Have a look at these most interesting Editor's Pic(k)s:
- Nicole Aeby (Maz Department Head)
- Tres Camenzind (President vfg)
- Sonia Favre (Freelance Photo Editor)
- Gabriella Flury (Owner Gabriella Flury Advertising)
- Tom Kees (Art Director McCann Erickson)
- Nenad Kovačić (Designer and Co-Owner Raffinerie)
- Cara Anne Specker (Photo Media)
- Donovan Szypura (Creative and Producing at Heads)
- Andreas Wilhelm (Chief Photo Editor Das Magazin)

Appenzell by Ueli Alder

Impressively photos of landscapes in Appenzell (Switzerland) from Ueli Alder, a young artist from Appenzell who studied photography at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). Pictures from Ueli are available at young at art and at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
Photograph: © Ueli Alder

Enjoy Xmas

Picture found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

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

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

Sodapix Memory

Whether torn jeans, crowd surfing metal heads, alphorns on car tops, or girls with wild pets, this is all Sodastyle. For once what counts isn't the specific moment, but how fast and alert your memory is. The speediest brain and mouse click combination will win you the set of memory images from the photography agency Sodapix.
Dear Memory - Please let me play!