New work. The unique new website of photographer @beat_schweizer invites visitors to explore his series and commissioned work. He often pursues a documentary approach, unfolding his vision through long-term projects. Beat investigates how human presence shapes and inhabits landscapes. See it in action. Link in bio.
Much More Social und Nastya I aus der Serie All Things Considered
Beat Schweizer (1982, Bern) habe ich an der Jungkunst 2012 kennengelernt. In seinen Werken hat er den richtigen Ausschnitt gewählt, um die gewünschte Aussage zu treffen, hat die Anordnung der sich bewegenden Objekte in einem harmonischen und liebevollen Augenblick erfasst und Licht, Farbigkeit und Helligkeit bewusst gewählt, um Akzente zu setzen. Beats Fotografien sind schlüssig und vollendet.
Er rapportiert das Dasein der Menschen in den Diamantenminen in Sibirien oder jenes seiner in New York isoliert lebenden Familie während der Corona-Lockdown-Zeit. Wir sind abhängig/geprägt von unserem wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Status. Beat rückt den Menschen ins Zentrum des Bildes, mal sichtbar, mal fehlend: die verlassenen Restauranttische oder das Portrait seiner Frau während der morgendlichen Gesichtspflege. Das sieht aus wie Fotografien aus der Renaissance, wie bildende Kunst. Beat ist ein fotografischer Maler.
From the Series «All Things Considered»
Link in Bio.
@nzz published a piece today on photographers' reactions to the pandemic. I am thrilled to be featured among four other great photographers.
@monikakeiler@maria__sturm@janasnolle@didierruef
Thank you @n.aeby !
You can order the publication «All Things Considered» via my website.
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱
Link in Bio
At the end of February 2020, my family and I moved to New York City. On 16 March 2020, schools closed and the city went into lockdown. Soon I started photographing. While going through various stages of reopening, the city maintained a variety of restrictions. As planned, we moved back to Switzerland on 2 May 2021. On 19 May 2021, New York City was nearly fully reopened.
For the first time - and it still feels a bit peculiar - I turned the camera inwards and started photographing my family.
The photographs in this publication were taken between March 2020 and April 2021.
Softcover / Newspaper
52 Pages
52 color and 2 b/w Illustrations
Language: English
Print run: 300 (hand-numbered)
Design:
@bonsmareist
With kind support of:
Kultur Stadt Bern | Burgergemeinde Bern
Text and Image from «The Search or The dust coloured skies over Udachny» Order the publication via the link in Bio
«While a few seize upon a job, many more have a job thrust upon them. Others still, even from thousands of kilometres away, respond to the lure of regular high wages and let themselves be uprooted from distant towns, villages and seemingly enchanted regions, enticed away from such places as the Altay mountains of Russia, where magnificent forests stretch right up to the rugged crags and their glacier tongues, where wild animals roam, where everything breathes in harmony with the rhythm of the days.»
Text by Urs Mannhart
“The Search or The dust coloured skies over Udachny” tells of the life of a small town in Yakutia. It is a lyrical documentary encounter (to quote a term famously used by Walker Evans), a multifaceted portrait of a settlement at the back of beyond, some 10’000 kilometres by road from Moscow, which owes its existence solely to its diamond-rich soil, but which has its own story, and which over the years has left its mark on the people living there.
14 posters 480 x 330 mm
folded size 240 x 160 mm, in a paper sleeve
Published by: Efa, Zurich
Photography: Beat Schweizer
Texts: Urs Mannhart
Design: Vinzenz Meyner
Printed by: Tanner Druck, Langnau
Languages: German & English
Number of copies: 112
32 Swiss francs plus shipping.
LINK TO ORDER IN BIO
“It all began in 1954 when Larissa Popugayeva, a scientist with an interest in geology, took an adventurous trip to Yakutia along with a dog and a colleague and discovered diamonds.”
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«Die Suche oder Die steinstaubfarbenen Himmel über Udatschny»
erzählt aus dem Leben einer Kleinstadt Jakutiens. Um eine lyrisch-dokumentarische Annäherung handelt es sich, um ein vielschichtiges Porträt einer Siedlung, die, gegründet allein wegen diamantenreicher Erde, ihre ganz eigene Geschichte hat, und die,
rund 10’000 Strassenkilometer hinter Moskau gelegen, ihren Bewohnerinnen und Bewohnern über die Jahre hin ihre Prägungen mitgibt.
14 Faltplakate 480 x 330 mm gefalzt auf 240 x 160 mm, umfasst von einer Banderole
Verlag: Efa, Zürich
Fotografie: Beat Schweizer
Texte: Urs Mannhart
Grafik: Vinzenz Meyner
Druck: Tanner Druck, Langnau
Sprachen: Deutsch & Englsich
Auflage: 112 Exemplare
32.- CHF zuzüglich Versand.
LINK ZUM BESTELLEN IN DER BIO
«Alles beginnt damit, dass Larissa Popugajewa, eine von der Geologie faszinierte Naturwissenschaftlerin, 1954 auf einer abenteuerlichen Reise mit Hund und Mitarbeiter in Jakutien Diamanten entdeckt.»
«Mikhailovna Called» is on show at the FREELENS Gallery in Hamburg until 19th of March 2020. Thanks to @freelens and @peter_lindhorst for the invitation and the lovely time spent, to @svenjabeller for the touching speech and to all the guests who come along yesterday. It was great! A big thank you also to @sascharenner who originally curated this exhibition at @coalminephotography in 2018. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #mikhailovnacalled #freelensgalerie #freelens #photoexhibition #freelensgallery #kehrerverlag #coalminephotography #hamburg
Teriberka, Russia 2012 | Vladimir Vladimirovich dumps remains of glowing coal from the local boiler house onto the shore. Taken from the Series «Der Boiler» and part of my book «Mikhailovna Called». ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Teriberka gained a lot of renown after it became the setting for Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film Leviathan, in 2014 and is now a popular tourist destination. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
«At the very beginning of the day, when everyone but the village boilerman is still asleep, one occasionally gets the impression that – before the sun sweeps away all myths and fables – the nocturnal light sent by the moon withdraws into the snow, crawling into the feathery light crystals that fell only the night before.» (Urs Mannhart) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#teriberka #mikhailovnacalled #murmansk #derboiler
I’ll be signing my book «Mikhailovna Called» this Friday, 2 PM at @parisphotofair Find me at the @kehrerverlag booth SE7. Hope to see you there!
#mikhailovnacalled #kehrerverlag #parisphotofair2019 #parisphotofair #book #photobook #booksignings
Dikson, Russia, 2013 | The village square in Dikson. The closed settlement Dikson is one of the northernmost villages in Russia. There is a plane once a week connecting the settlement with Norilsk, there is no road. This picture is taken from the series «An der Frostgrenze» and part of my Book «Mikhailovna Called». «In the church, which was built just a few years ago, things don’t
usually get going until the pastor announces that he’s flying in.» (Urs Mannhart)
#mikhailovnacalled #north #russia #photography #upnorth #kehrerverlag #NewEastInFocus #Dikson #Диксон #documentaryphotography #reportagespotlight #russia #filmphotography #ursmannhart
«Ungefestigte Ufer» A newspaper publication about Transnistria I did with the writer Urs Mannhart in collaboration with @reportagenmag back in 2016. Design by the fabulous @heyday.ch Still available for purchase.
#newsprintphotobook #publiaction #newspaper #transnistria #heyday #print #selfpublishing
#selfpublishbehappy #contemporaryphotography #indiephotobooks #ursmannhart #reportagen #documentaryphotography #reportagespotlight #reportagen
