MATTHIEU GAFSOU!!Matthieu Gafsou (CH, 1981) lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. After university education, he studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey. Since 2006 he participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and published four books. He received in 2009 the famous “Prix de la fondation HSBC pour la photographie” and was selected in 2010 in the exhibition reGeneration2. Since 2012 he teaches at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL).

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

MATTHIEU GAFSOU LES GRANGETTES

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Les Grangettes, 2013-2014.

MATTHIEU GAFSOU NOCTURNES

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Noctrunes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Noctrunes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Noctrunes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Noctrunes, 2013-2014.

Matthieu Gafsou, from “Creative Assignment” Noctrunes, 2013-2014.

MATTHIEU GAFSOU ORDINAIRES

Matthieu Gafsou, from seriesOrdinaires, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Ordinaires, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Ordinaires, 2010

MATTHIEU GAFSOUTERRES COMPROMISES

z"You can see in Israel and Palestine the ruins of the first human civilization, but you discover that these countries seems to have no history (or a very brief one). As concerns "visiting" settlements, I was surprised by the fact that people aren't living there for political reasons but for economical ones - as I was asking about the territorial problems they were often just eluding the question. (...) On the other hand, you see guns everywhere, they are part of the daily life. Contemporary history is there more living than in Europe or the USA but the paradox is that people are trying to flee from this reality, living in a world of entertainment and leisure." Excerpt from an interview conducted by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

Matthieu Gafsou, from series Terres Compromises, 2010

ROBERT VOITSTADT - LAND - FLUSS

Robert Voit, Down by the River, Shanghai, China 2001, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

Robert Voit, Snowflakes, Hokkaido, Japan 2005, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

Robert Voit, Special Economic Zone, China 2001, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

Robert Voit, Leave me alone, England 2004, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

Robert Voit, Marlboro, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, 2005, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

Robert Voit, Paris, China 2001, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

Robert Voit, Sugimoto, Japan 2001, from the series Stadt - Land - Fluss.

ROBERT VOITSTADT OHNE EIGENSCHAFTEN

Robert Voit, What goes up must come down, Sapporo, Japan 2006, from the series Stadt ohne Eigenschaften.

Robert Voit, What goes up must come down, Sapporo, Japan 2006, from the series Stadt ohne Eigenschaften.

SIMON NORFOLK

Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1963 and educated in England, finishing at Oxford and Bristol Universities with a degree in philosophy and sociology. !After leaving a documentary photography course in Newport, South Wales, Norfolk worked for far-left publications specializing in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups, in particular the British National Party. In 1994 he gave up photojournalism in favor of landscape photography. !His book For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory, about the places that have witnessed genocide, was published in 1998. The work was exhibited at many venues, including the Imperial War Museum in London, the Nederlands Foto Instituut, and the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. Photographs of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, published as Afghanistan: Chronotopia, won the European Publishers' Award for Photography and an award from the Foreign Press Club of America and was nominated for the Citibank Prize. !In 2004, Norfolk won the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York and in 2005 Le Prix Dialogue in Arles. His most recent book, Bleed, about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, was published in 2005. His work appears regularly in the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian Weekend.

Simon Norfolk, A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a new media company supported heavily by American money, Kabul, 2010

Simon Norfolk, A Shia cemetery on the flanks of Kohe Asmai, Kabul, 2011

Simon Norfolk, Tibetan Refugees in the Dhauladhar Range, Himalayas, Northern India, 2004

Simon Norfolk, Afghanistan, 2012, for Prix Pictet Commission.

Simon Norfolk, Spain, 2013, for The New Yorker “Failed Ambitions: Spain’s Economic Collapse"

Simon Norfolk, Spain, 2013, for The New Yorker “Failed Ambitions: Spain’s Economic Collapse"