Maya Rochat unveils Water Is Coming
"What I wanted to do was really to put together an exhibition that did some good and make people dream." – Maya Rochat
Photo Elysée is closed until March 28, 2025, for the installation of new exhibitions. Vernissage on March 27 at 6:00 pm – save the date!
"What I wanted to do was really to put together an exhibition that did some good and make people dream." – Maya Rochat
Born in post-war Japan, Daido Moriyama embraced photography as a democratic language, promoted by the mass media industry. His work encapsulates the clash between Japanese tradition and Westernisation, following the…
"In my practice, I’m interested in image sharing (...), databases, automatically generated images as well as Machine Learning. That’s the cosmos in which I evolve." - Tamara Janes
"What interests me the most about photography is how it has been changed by the advent of digital technology, what it allows us to do, but also what it changes…
"In the history of photography and painting, it has rather been men who have looked at women with this idea of desire more or less asserted [...]. Multiple/désirs is a…
"If you compare the Amazon's deforestation to other forms of the Anthropocene, many of which were kind of the result of our ancestors carrying out forms of extractive violence, this…
"She had this need to create. As a creator she uses everything she can", says Nathalie Herschdorfer SHOWstudio hosted an enlightening conversation between the director of Photo Elysée – Museum of…
"I think about photography sort of less for its potential to convey beauty and be seductive [...] and much more for its sort of potential to instrumentalize a social movement."
"How do we make sense of life in a violent country? How do performances and fictions and playing roles help us either make sense of our violent culture or justify…
"We have a very strong connection with the word #hysteria and how it’s been used through history to control women and to also minimize women’s suffering."
"Josef Koudelka is a lone wolf. He only needs his camera and himself." – Gilad Baram
I'm just passing by... Between a nod to the artistic avant-garde and a representation of urban culture, the short film by Lausanne-based video artist Hugo Labat (Switzerland, 1997) shows the…