Lausanne is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city.
Chillon Castle is an island medieval castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the canton of Vaud. It is situated at the eastern end of the lake, on the narrow shore between Montreux and Villeneuve, which gives access to the Alpine valley of the Rhône. Chillon is amongst the most visited medieval castles in Switzerland and Europe. Successively occupied by the House of Savoy, then by the Bernese from 1536 until 1798, it now belongs to the canton de Vaud and is classified as a Swiss Cultural Property of National Significance.
René Burri was a Swiss photographer. Burri was a member of Magnum Photos and photographed major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. He made portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso as well as iconic pictures of São Paulo and Brasília.
Stéphane Ducret is a Swiss contemporary artist born in 1970 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and living in Geneva, Switzerland since 2012.
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland is situated in Western Switzerland. It is formally accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Council. The university is divided into six faculties: Design and Fine Arts; Business, Management and Services; Engineering and Architecture; Music and Performing Arts; Health; and Social Work.
Jan Groover was an American photographer. She received numerous one-person shows, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which holds some of her work in its permanent collection.
Lois Greenfield is an American photographer best known for her unique approach to photographing the human form in motion. Born in New York City, she attended Hunter College Elementary School, the Fieldston School, and Brandeis University. Greenfield majored in Anthropology and expected to become an ethnographic filmmaker but instead, she became a photojournalist for local Boston newspapers. She traveled around the world on various assignments as a photojournalist but her career path changed in the mid-1970s when she was assigned to shoot a dress rehearsal for a dance concert. Greenfield has since specialized in photographing dancers in her photo studio as part of her exploration of the expressive potential of movement.
Erling Mandelmann was a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1960s.
The Palais de Rumine is a late 19th-century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Photo Élysée, formerly known as Musée de l'Élysée, is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.
The École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) is a university of art and design located in the Renens suburb of Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1821 and is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). The designer Alexis Georgacopoulos is the director of ÉCAL.
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) is the cantonal bank of the Swiss Canton of Vaud. Headquartered in Lausanne, it is Vaud's biggest bank by balance sheet. BCV is a universal bank providing retail banking, corporate banking, wealth management, and trading services.
Laia Abril is a Catalan artist whose work relates to bio-politics, grief and women’s rights. Her books include The Epilogue (2014), which documents the indirect victims of eating disorders; and a long-term project A History of Misogyny which includes On Abortion (2018), about the repercussions of abortion controls in many cultures; and On Rape (2022) about gender-based stereotypes and myths, as well as the failing structures of law and order, that perpetuate rape culture.
Michael von Graffenried is a Swiss photographer living and working between Paris, Brooklyn NY and Switzerland.
Namsa Leuba is a Swiss-Guinean art director and photographer. She studied at Swiss schools and afterwards at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work mainly focuses on the African identity as seen through Western eyes, due to her Western education. According to an interview with “My Art Guides”, she became interested in the animistic side of Guinean culture as a child. She even visited marabouts because of her intense interest in supernatural side to Guinea. She has had her work published in several magazines including I-D, Numéro, KALEIDOSCOPE, Foam, the Financial Times Magazine,Interview, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Wallpaper*, Libération, British Journal of Photography, and European Photography. In 2010, she won her first prize from Planche(s) contact festival de photographie de Deauville. The subjects of the majority of her work are non-professional individuals. She claims that she does much of her casting on the street. In 2021, her work was exhibited at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in a show titled Crossed Looks. It was the first solo exhibition of Leuba's work in the United States and included photographs taken in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, and Tahiti.
Mauren Brodbeck is a Swiss contemporary artist.
Luciano Rigolini is a Swiss artist, photographer, bookmaker, producer, and former commissioning editor at Arte in Paris. Swiss Grand Award for Design 2024, the highest honour for Swiss designer and photographers assigned by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC)
Manor Cultural Prize is a Swiss fine arts prize awarded every two years by the Manor alongside art museums in 12 Swiss cities, which was founded in 1982 in Lucerne. The goal is to promote emerging artists under the age of 40.
Tatyana Franck is a museum director and nonprofit executive. She was the director of the Photo Élysée museum in Lausanne from 2015 to 2022. She is the current president of the French Institute Alliance Française in New York.
