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Collection FS1 Francis Schmutz,

Photographer and architect, 1939-2023

On this website, Francis Schmutz published part of his 30 years of photographic work until shortly before his death. The work is divided into different categories and shows above all snapshots of what Francis meant: motifs and moments that look at him, the photographer. In the post-processing in his studio, a formally strict and urbanistically playful aesthetic prevails, which can also be found in some of his architectural projects. The striking photographic walks, especially through the Seeland to Neuchâtel, the boat trips, the shoes, monuments and typical Swiss landscapes are intermingled with trips to Italy, Greece, Thailand and cities such as Barcelona. Abstract moments in motion and musical compositions, word games in the picture, diptychs, triptychs, it is as if he wanted to reconstruct the world in his small studio in Niederwangen near Bern, where he had last conceived the book “Francis Schmutz, Fotografien” before he died in Bern on June 18, 2023.

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