BIO
I was born in 1956 in a small town in Central Switzerland. I started to take pictures at age ten.
After working as a photojournalist and commercial photographer in Switzerland I moved to San Francisco in 1992. For the last 20 years I have focused on fine art photography.
I have been creating images using a variety of techniques. More than ever I am drawn to working in the darkroom and its less predictable results.
I have started to make short videos in 2021. It’s a whole new world, and what an amazing one for that. A moving world.
My images have been shown in galleries and published in print and online both in Europe and the US. I have been a recipient of the 20x24 Camera Grant from Polaroid and the winner of the Golden Light Award from the Maine Photographic Workshop as well as a professional Photographers Award from The Santa Fe Workshops. My images are in numerous private collections, such as those of Elton John, Graham Nash, Frazier King and Joaquim Paiva as well as in major collections such as the Polaroid Collection and the Lucerne State Collection.
I live and work in San Francisco.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
“Love Devotion Surrender Dedication” Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY Summer 2021
“Fernweh” Bildhalle Zürich, Switzerland, Summer 2020.
“Winter Blues”, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA, February-April, 2020.
"Selections 1979 -2019", Corden|Potts Gallery, 49 Geary, San Francisco, CA, May 2019
“Entropy”, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY, November/December 2018
“Holiday Show”, Corden|Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Winter 2017/18
"Le Scarpe", Corden|Potts Gallery, 49 Geary, San Francisco, CA, September 2015
"Four Photographers", Galerie Tuttiart, Lucerne, Switzerland, Summer 2015
"One: Unique Photographs", Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, January/February 2015.
"Quietude", Corden|Potts Gallery, 49 Geary, San Francisco, CA, January/February 2014.
“Blues”, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, CA, Summer 2013.
Photo LA, Los Angeles, Cyanotypes at Smith Andersen North, January 2013.
Kappazakka, San Francisco, Cyanotypes, December 2012.
Galerie Kunsthäuschen, Herrliberg, Switzerland, Summer 2008.
Smith Andersen North, San Rafael, CA, 2006.
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, 2003.
The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Kellenberger, Tsong, Scarborough, Murray, Kentucky, 2003.
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2001.
Nikon Gallery, Polaroid Collection. Zürich, Switzerland, 1983.
Gallery Langenbacher, Luzern, Switzerland, 1977.
REPRESENTATION
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Corden|Potts, 49 Geary, San Francisco, CA
Blidhalle Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Smith Anderson North, San Anselmo, CA