Camera Arts

@circle.walk.together.break is currently working on his BA project “Make Friends with a Stork!”👀✨ “Our emotional worlds are often too complex to put into words. They are abstract, overwhelming, exhausting — and at the same time the driving force behind everything that holds meaning. What does a sunset mean without personal connection, without the smell of summer air, a missed opportunity, or melancholy? In this work, I confront these associations. My images form a bridge between my inner world and the out-side world. They show what I cannot or do not want to express in words. Influenced by music and the worlds of Murakami, I want to show how much can emerge when we simply look.” Super excited to see the final product!! #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts #werkschaudfk

The BA3 students are fully immersed in their BA projects. Five more weeks to go until the Werkschau opening on Friday, 19. June!💥 In the course of the next weeks we're introducing you to all final bachelor projects. Starting today with a visual sneak peak of the evolving BA projects. 👀💥 Our cities are planned, regulated, controlled, and curated - to the adavantage of some inhabitants and the disadavantage of others. Taking corvids in Basel as its starting point, in this project @elenazihlmann explores the tension between control and coexistence. It challenges the anthropocentric worldview that is behind most of our encounters with nature. Wildlife can be fascinating, but with this example it becomes clear how quickly love of nature turns into hostility when the other come to close in the space we claim as our own. In the project, real practices of control side with staged scenarios that reveal urban mechanisms of repression. Rest as Resistance by @sofieelinaberz reads female exhaustion as a structural problem stemming from patriarchal power dynamics, focusing on one of its central aspects: the sense of security. Spaces without access for men exist across cultures and systems, pointing to a collective need for places that offer a temporary escape from our male-dominated world. The project combines a room for rest with a publication on such historical and contemporary safe spaces in Switzerland, understanding withdrawal not as a solution but as a necessity within current societal structures. #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts #werkschaudfk

@jeker_julia is working on her BA project!!💫 “For my Bachelor project I am creating images which have a magical atmosphere oscillating between comfort and uncanniness. I try to explore the in-between space and the ambiguous feelings that come with it. How can we learn to navigate thresholds and gain strength surrounded by the unfamiliar?” Excited to see the final results👀 #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts

BA Camera Arts is excited to invite you to our POSITION#EXTENDED x Bieler Fototage with visual artist, photographer, artivist, and educator Rafal Milach on Wednesday May 6th at 5pm live and in person! 💥👀 Bio @rafal.milach Rafał Milach is a visual artist, photographer, artivist, and educator. His work focuses on the tension between society and power structures. Author of protest books and critical publications on state control and protest strategies. Rafal Milach is a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of Silesian University in Katowice, Poland. He has received scholarships from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the US State Department, and the European Cultural Foundation—finalist of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and Polityka Passports Awards. Rafal has been awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Award, Author’s Book at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, and the World Press Photo prize. Co-founder of the Archive of Public Protests and Sputnik Photos collectives. His works have been exhibited and are held in public institutional collections worldwide. In 2023, Rafał joined Magnum Photos as a full member. Lecture Stand with Ukraine Since regaining independence in 1991, Ukraine has sought to free itself from Russian influence. Over the past four years, the full-scale Russian invasion has placed Ukrainians in a situation of existential struggle. This has led to profound transformations—not only in the political order, which has begun to unravel, but also in the ways the ongoing conflict is represented in the media and beyond. The lecture will focus on a range of visual strategies that respond to and critically examine these changes. We are looking forward to welcoming you at CA! ❤️👁️ #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts #rafalmilach

Wir blicken auf eine tolle Vernissage der Ausstellung «Poetics of Deconstruction» mit zahlreichen Besucher:innen zurück! Herzlichen Dank an die Leiterin des Bachelor-Studiengangs «Camera Arts» der Hochschule Luzern – Design Film Kunst, Ann-Christin Bertrand, die beiden Künstler:innen Jiyan Céline Schmidiger und nedia boutouchent sowie die Kuratorin Pearlie Frisch. 🌟 Die Ausstellung ist noch bis zum 15. August bei uns im Kornhausforum Bern zu sehen! #kornhausforum #poeticsofdeconstruction #ausstellung #hslu #bern

Als Werkschau-Botschafter gebe ich, Noah, euch Einblick in den Entstehungsprozess meiner Abschlussarbeit des BA Camera Arts. In den letzten zwei Wochen habe ich mich auf die Weiterentwicklung meines Konzepts und den Dreh einer ersten Szene konzentriert Durch ein sehr hilfreiches Gespräch mit einem Mentor konnte ich mir ein klareres Bild davon machen, wie ich meine Arbeit angehen möchte, und zu dem zurückfinden, was ich wirklich tun will: ein Projekt, das einerseits sehr persönlich ist und gleichzeitig ein breites Publikum ansprechen kann. Mein Projekt entspringt aus meiner Angst, Momente die ich erlebe zu vergessen. Diese Momente will ich mit der Dringlichkeit festhalten und wiedergeben, die ich darin fühle, dies Momente nicht zu vergessen. Ich konnte meine erste Szene leider noch nicht mit Personen drehen, habe aber einen ersten Testdreh vor Ort gemacht, um mich mit dem Ort vertraut zu machen und mich bestmöglich auf den eigentlichen Dreh vorzubereiten. Hier präsentiere ich euch einige Stills aus diesem Testdreh. Stay tuned for more in two weeks. #hslu #hsludfk #werkschaudfk #werkschaudfkambassador #cameraarts

This Friday 17 April, two exhibitions by our students open simultaneously!🔥🔥 Over the past few months, the BA1 students have been working on the topic of “Disruption” as part of the Visual Narratives module. “Disruption” breaks patterns and resets expectations. It cuts into systems that appear stable and exposes their limits — beginning with small shifts that scale fast through new technologies, changing behaviors, or alternative ways of thinking. Across these contexts, disruption takes distinct forms: new political systems reshape power; civil rules are tested at their edges; conflict alters memory and identity; misogynistic institutions are unmasked; psychosis and rehabilitation shift perception; queerness challenges religious authority; new masculinities emerge; luxury consumption accelerates environmental damage; landscapes are redrawn by catastrophe; migration redefines belonging; and the ending of one’s own life confronts the limits of agency. The show is curated by Laia Abril @laia_abril and Taiyo Onorato @taiyo_onorato . Meanwhile the BA2 students have been focussing on a transmedia project: “To belong otherwise” is a transmedia exhibition featuring three projects that together rethink identities, coexistence and control through ecological and political lenses. Rather than framing roots as fixed or romantic points of origin each individual project contributes to build an understanding of them as living systems: entangled, adaptive, and shaped by power. Through video, sound, installation, and digital media, “To belong otherwise” explores how norms and systems are embedded within ecological, historical, and social infrastructures. Roots emerge as both sustenance and constraint: what grounds and binds can also impede us. The show is curated by Salvatore Vitale @salvatorevitale_ and Thomas Knüsel. See you at the opening on Friday at 17:00h!👀 The show will be open from 18.4. - 24.4. from 9:00 until 17:00

Today the BA3 students made some first grafts, together with @danaepanchaud , of how the possible final exhibition during the Werkschau could look like! This year Camera Arts will present their work in the Aktionshalle 👀 We are excited to see the personal progress! Thanks to Danae and Sara for the help and coordination 💚 #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts

Als Werkschau-Botschafter gebe ich, Noah, euch Einblick in den Entstehungsprozess meiner Abschlussarbeit des BA Camera Arts. Hoi Zemma! Heute zeige ich euch den Stand meiner Bachelorarbeit – erste Versuche mit Video und Photogrammetrie. Stay tuned for more in two weeks. #hslu #hsludfk #werkschaudfk #werkschaudfkambassador #cameraarts

BA2 is working on their sound layer for the upcoming Transmedia Storytelling exhibition. @_tom_huber & @beatjegen helped translate their vision into sound in a sounddesign workshop. Stay tuned! 💥 #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts

Ende April eröffnen wir die Ausstellung «Poetics Of Deconstruction»! Das Kornhausforum zeigt die Arbeiten der Künstler:innen Jiyan Céline Schmidiger und nedia boutouchent. In ihren Werken setzen sie sich künstlerisch mit unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen von Marginalisierung, Stigmatisierung und systemischer Unterdrückung auseinander. Vernissage 🗓 Donnerstag, 23. April 2026 🕕 18.30 Uhr Ausstellung 🗓 24. April bis 15. August 2026 📍 Galerie, 2. OG, Kornhausforum Bern Link zur Ausstellung 👉 Bio Die Ausstellung ist eine Kooperation mit dem Studiengang Camera Arts der Hochschule Luzern – Design Film Kunst und dem Kornhausforum. Foto oben: Jiyan Céline Schmidiger Foto unten: nedia boutouchent Grafik: Studio Südbahnhof #kornhausforum #cameraarts #ausstellung #hslu #bern

Todays field trip took us to Photo Elysée, where we saw Salvatore Vitales exhibition SABOTAGE. Big, big thank you to @salvatorevitale_ and @photo.elysee for giving us a personal tour, answering questions and offering behind the scenes insights! 👀💥 Go see this great exhibition for yourself at Photo Elysée Lausanne until 31.05.2026. #hslu #hsludfk #cameraarts #fieldtrip #salvatorevitale