PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHER & VISUAL STORYTELLER

Documentary / Reportage / Editorial / Corporate / Portrait

My cameras, notebooks and I have explored some of the outer reaches and hidden cracks of our world: from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the floating slums of Bangladesh's capital, through to Rio's favelas, Ethiopia's rock-carved churches, Gaza's beaches, East Africa's refugee camps, Beijing's Olympic venues, Georgia's ski slopes and India's railcars.

To be perfectly honest, we've also wandered around each and every conference room in Geneva.

Wherever we found people, we found stories. And today, we'd be happy to document and tell yours.

My gear and I are based out of Geneva, Switzerland, but will happily come to you, wherever in the world that may be.

Member of the Swiss Association of Professional Photographers.

Member of Photographers for Hope.

On the rosters of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG), the Stop TB Partnership and the International Trade Centre (ITC).

Official photographer of the Hospice général for 2019.

Nominated for the 2019 Prix Pictet – The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability.

MY APPROACH

'Real is Beautiful'.

To cut it short, this is my motto. Better described as my search for purpose, sincerity, empathy and truth in my work. I also try to include some humor whenever appropriate (or not) and I welcome contradictions, absurdity or complexity.

This means I am not only interested in the making and taking of images, but also in their using. For me, the good photo is one that serves a need, or even better, a cause – and preferably a worthy one.

Because of my professional experience in branding/PR coupled with my educational background in social sciences, I strive to combine aesthetics, the central message with the impact of each image.

Or as photojournalism legend James Nachtwey once eloquently put it: “Photography can cut through abstractions and rhetoric to help us understand complex issues on a human level.”

CLIENTS & PARTNERS (non-exhaustive)

Ashoka Switzerland / BRAC / Collonge-Bellerive / Croix-Rouge française / Geneva Communicators Network / Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining / Hospice général / Humanitarian Education Accelerator / Instituto Bola Pra Frente / insieme Suisse / International Trade Center / Interpeace / Jesuit Refugee Service / Kilimanjaro Initiative / Libraries Without Borders / Maison de Savoie / Nike / Olympic Museum / Organisation internationale de la Francophonie / Stop TB Partnership / The Bridge Foundation / The Carter Center / UN Development Programme / UN Economic Commission for Europe / UN Office at Geneva / UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction / UN Refugee Agency / Ville de Genève / World Health Organization

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 /

United Nations Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland / December

German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany / June

2018 /

DGI-byen, Copenhagen, Denmark / April to July

International Film Festival And Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), Geneva, Switzerland / March

UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark / January

World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland / January

2017 /

United Nations Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland / July

UNESCO, Paris, France / March

2009 /

United Nations Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland / May

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 /

Social Documentary Network's 10th Anniversary, New York, USA / October

Annecy Photo Festival, France / October

2017 /

Le Grand Bivouac Festival, Albertville, France / October

2011 /

Touring exhibit on rickshaws, Dhaka, Bangladesh / December 2011 to January 2012

European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium / 30 May to 1 June

United Nations Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland / May

Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland / March to May

Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Nyon, Switerland / December 2010 to April 2011

2010 /

Fundição Progresso, Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / 9 to 13 November

Nike Store, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / September

TRAINING

Documentary Photography Workshop with Patrick Zachmann / 8 to 11 November 2017, Paris, France

Master Class with Olivier Föllmi / 13 to 16 October 2016, Albertville, France

Content Creation for Social Media Workshop with Seb Montaz-Rosset / 30 June 2016, Chamonix, France

Photographers for Hope Workshop with David Burnett / December 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Photographers for Hope Workshop with David Burnett / September 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BACKGROUND

Senior External Relations and Communications Officer, Geneva Centre for Security Policy / 2013 to 2016

Advocacy and Communications Officer, United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace / 2007 to 2012

Master’s Degree in International Communications Strategy / 2006 & 2007

Master’s Degree in International Organizations’ Management and Expertise / 2005 & 2006