Category Archives: Personal Projects

Like last summer, I spent a few days with the Kathriner family on their alp above Sarnen.

A day trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, and a visit to the museum cafeteria, fall 2001.

This house in my parents’ neighbourhood started burning one boring Friday afternoon in 2001. I remember sitting at home, playing hooky from art school when I noticed the smoke. I grabbed my cameras and ran outside even before the fire … Continue reading →

These portraits were taken for an architecture (?) class in photo school (unsurprisingly, I haven’t gotten many assignments from architects in my photography career so far). For reasons that totally escape me today, I called this series “Superunknown II” – … Continue reading →

After I photographed Mona and her daughter Lisa, I realized I did something wrong with my light meter. As a consequence, I had to push the film by 2 stops and the negatives looked awful after that, also the colours … Continue reading →

In the fall of 2006, I became obsessed with Diane Arbus. I read several biographies and tried to get a hold of every single book about her. I loved the work she did in circusses and freak shows and as … Continue reading →

Swissair flight to Douala, Cameroon – I got to visit the pilots in the cockpit – needless to say it was pre 9/11, in May 2000. Morning flight to Hamburg… …and back to Zurich again in the evening. Winter 2000. … Continue reading →

My brother J. O. is an avid Death Metal fan and musician with the band Sexual Dysfunction and a solo project called Koreopsis with which he’s released two EPs already. According to a review on his myspace page, “the songs … Continue reading →