We are industrialized, globalized and digitalized

Januar 2025  /  MAST Foundation Grant of Industrial Photography

Vertigo - Scenarios of Rapid Change

Januar 2024  /  Vertigo - Scenarios of Rapid Change. MAST 2024

When Images Learn to SpeakConceptualised Documentary Photography from the Astrid Ullens Collection

2024  /  SAGA: A Photographic Journey from Lewis Baltz to Tarrah Krajnak: a photographic journey from Lewis Baltz to Tarrah Krajnak : Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall collection. 2024

Change of WorkMAST Foundation Grant of Industrial Photography

2023  /  MAST Foundation Grant of Industrial Photography 2023

Andreas Gursky – Contemporary Visual Spaces

2023  /  Andreas Gursky – Contemporary Visual Spaces, MAST 2023

THE MAST COLLECTIONA Visual Alphabet of Industry, Technology and Work

Januar 2021

F&A. A Few Fantasies, A Few Aberrations

Januar 2021  /  Buchner Bründler Bauten II. Scheidegger&Spiess Verlag, 2022

The Shimmer of NightPaco Carrascosa: Jack Daniels and Mr Freud

Januar 2021  /  Paco Carrascosa: Jack Daniels and Mr Freud. 2022

View – Review – Overview

September 2021  /  On Photography - New Perspectives. VFO 2021

Interfaces—lustful, painful

April 2021  /  Anna Stüdeli: Primal, Edition Patrick Frey, 2021

Richard Mosse: From image event to forensic analysis

März 2021  /  Richard Mosse: Displaced. MAST, Bologna

Photography with Architecture, Photography through Architecture

Januar 2020  /  NOWHERE – Imagining The Global City (Frank van der Salm). Paradox and Hartmann Books, 2021

Photography is ....

Dezember 2020  /  Reflections - Vontobel Art Collection

On Ambiguity, Fragmentation and the Yearning for Intactness

Oktober 2020  /  MAST Foundation Grant of Photography, Bologna 2020

Reality’s Wake-Up Call - A Way of Reading

September 2020  /  André Cepeda: Ballad of Today. Pierre von Kleist 2020

Of Sacred Serenity

March 2020  /  Jan Jedlička: 200m (Steidl, Göttingen)

Walead Beshty: Industrial Portraits

January 2020  /  Booklet (MAST, Bologna)

UniformFrom functional to symbolic workwear – and from fashionable to workwear in fashion

January 2020  /  Booklet (MAST, Bologna)

In vivo - in vitro

Januar 2020  /  Hans Danuser: Darkrooms of Photography. Steidl 2020

Language and Image, Existence and Silence

November 2019  /  Jitka Hanzlová: Silences, König Books 2019

Language and Image, Existence and Silence

November 2019  /  Jitka Hanzlová: Silences, König Books 2019

Things That Can Happen

October 2019  /  Catalogue

PC – and the Joy of Seeing

October 2019  /  Black & White with Friends (Zürich)

In Vivo – In Vitro

September 2019  /  Hans Danuser: Darkrooms of Photography (Steidl)

Adams, Adams, Baltz, BurtynskyThe Role of Landscape in North American Photography

May 2019  /  Anthropocene - Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicolas de Pencier

Water and AirSohei Nishino’s Poetic Exploration of the Po River

April 2019  /  Sohei Nishino: Waterline. A Story of the Po River. (Damiani)

New Europe Revisited

April 2019  /  Photoworks, Issue 25

Comoros Encounters

March 2019  /  A New Gaze, Vontobel Photography Prize

Nature & Politics

February 2019

A Merry, Melancholy Dance of Things

January 2019  /  Giorgio Wolfensberger: Foto Povera (Edition Patrick Frey)

A strong consisten hybridLewis Baltz and the Art World

Januar 2019  /  unpublished

A Poem to a City, a Poem to the World

May 2018  /  W. Eugene Smith: Pittsburgh (MAST, Bologna)

Life in the Fast Lane

2018  /  Pendulum – Moving Goods, Moving People

Machine World and Image MachinesThomas Ruff’s photographic thinking

October 2017

Matter and Idea, Machine and MetaphorAn Epic of Imagery from the World of Industry And Work

May 2017  /  Masterworks of Industrial Photography, MASTElecta 2017

LB (Lewis Baltz)

February 2017  /  Lewis Baltz (Mapfre/Steidl)

Shifting Work, Shifting Realities

January 2017

Luigi Ghirri – Press Text

2017

Dayanita Singh: The Flow of Life

October 2016

Blog-Posts for Foto ColectaniaCorrespondence with Hester Keijser

2016  /  fotocolectania.org

Industry and Labour, photographed from different perspectives

Januar 2015  /  Masterworks of Industrial Photography. MASTElecta 2016

With a Deep BowFor the award of the Goslar Emperor's Ring to Boris Mikhailov

2016  /  Camera Austria

[7P] -- [7] Places [7] Precarious FieldsBy Way of Introduction

September 2015

[7.1] High-Tech, Logistics & Migration

September 2015

[7.2] Violence and Destruction

September 2015

[7.3] Urbanism & Real Estate

September 2015

[7.4] Money and Greed

September 2015

[7.5] Knowledge, Order, Power

September 2015

[7.6] Ego-Fest & Self-Stress

September 2015

[7.7] Communication and Control

September 2015

Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a SecretIndustrial Photographs, 1912-1937

January 2015

New ArtificialityAnd other (speculative) ruminations on photography

September 2014  /  Kodak City (Kehrer Verlag)

Human Capital

April 2014

Toledo, El Greco and Photography

Januar 2014  /  C-Photo, Ivorypress 2014

Landscape as Metaphor, Landscape as LaboratoryThoughts Upon Looking at Scott McFarland’s Images

2014

Sharon Ya‘ari – Time Capsule

2013

From Truth to Truthfulness (and from Pathos to System)The Evolution of Documentary Photography between 1950 and 1980

2013  /  Photography Vol. 3 (Skira, Milano)

Concrete – Preface

2013  /  Concrete – Photography and Architecture (Scheidegger&Spiess)

Amar Kanwar

September 2012

Fragments of a Language of Orientation

2012  /  Parkett, Vol. 91

Pictorial Doubts and DelightEight Thoughts on Photographic Abstraction and Shirana Shahbazi’s Path to (Almost) Pure Form

September 2011

“After all, it’s a mind game.”Interlacing and Communicating as an Art Form

2011  /  Ai Weiwei: Interlacing

Photo Games – Mind Games

September 2010

Bodies, Images, Power and Violence

September 2009  /  Darkside II

Freedom as an Insight into Necessity

2009  /  Pernilla Zettermann: Behave (Hatje Cantz)

Seeing and Being SeenVoyeurism and Photography

September 2008

Nocturnal Archaelogy of the EverydayTen Flashes of Thought and an Epilogue

2008

We and the World Around UsOn Swiss Art Photography

2008  /  Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Schweiz. Wasmuth, 2002

On Beauty and Exhilaration

2008  /  Walter Pfeiffer: In Love with Beauty (Scalo)

Charting Life

December 2007

Constructed PromisesLaurence Bonvin’s photographs of gated communities

2007  /  Laurence Bonvin: On the Edges of Paradise (Edition Fink)

Travelling Faces, Circulating History

2007

Experiences enhance ThoughtsThe Imaging of Thought and Experience in the work of Nanna Hänninen

2007  /  Nanna Hänninen: Recordings (Kodoji)

Gregory Crewdson - Photographs 1985-2005 (Press text)

Juni 2006

Real FantasiesNew Photography in Swiss Art

March 2006

Reto Camenisch: Departing Homeward

2006

AfterwardsAfter the Climax as a focal element in Rineke Dijkstra's portrait photography

March 2005

Lessons in Looking

2005  /  Sophy Rickett: Photoworks (Steidl)

Ecstasy of ThingsPreface

January 2004  /  Seelig/Stahel: Ecstasy of Things (Steidl)

This is Photography

2004

Private Pleasures, Burdensome Boredom, Public Decay

June 2003  /  Boris Mikhailov: Retrospective (Scalo)

Serenely Sailing like Doves in the Wind

2003

Well, What is Photography?A lecture on photography on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Fotomuseum Winterthur

2003  /  Fotomuseum Winterthur, Scalo

Order and Chaos

2003

We and the World Around UsOn Swiss Art Photography

Januar 2002

Intermediate Realm

Januar 2001  /  Dunja Evers: Constellations (Steidl)

Topographies of Power

2001

"...A Different Flow of Time"

2001  /  Jitka Hanzlová: Inhabitants (Fotomuseum Winterthur)

Hybrid WorldsDavid Deutsch, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Katrin Freisager, Annika von Hausswolff, Isabell Heimerdinger, Hans Hemmert, Jörg Sasse and Günther Selichar.

September 2000  /  Hybrid, Fotomuseum Winterthur 2000

Screens, Cold

2000

On Research, Fibbing, and Make-BelieveThe Earnest Game of Photography in Switzerland

1999

Thin-skinned and ambiguous

1999  /  Unheimlich, Fotomuseum Winterthur1999

Andreas Gursky – Foreword

1998

The Abyss of Surrender in Another Water

January 1997

Industrial Photography – Staged Objectivity

January 1994  /  Stahel/Wolfensberger: Industriebild (Zürich)

A Thoughtful Traveller

January 1993  /  Paul Graham: New Europe (Fotomuseum Winterthur)

Participating without ConsequencesRules and Patterns of Newton’s Voyeurism

1993  /  Helmut Newton. Selections from his photographic work, exh. cat. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg et al., Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1993

After Nature

1993  /  Remy Markowitsch: After Nature

The Journey of Similarity

Januar 1990  /  Herbert Diestel: Dieseits - Jenseits

"WE ARE BORN NAKED..." - Hanna Villiger

1990  /  Hannah Villiger: Zwei. Kunstmuseum Zug. 1990