Biography
Stefan is an MA Photography graduate from Falmouth Flexible. He is based in San Diego, CA. Stefan grew up in the Swiss alps, where majestic landscapes and mountain topics are abundant. He is a self-taught photographer and attended a three-year course to delve into photography and develop his own style. His early work was influenced by Swiss fine art photographer and personal tutor Reto Camenisch. Stefan was inspired by Swiss photographer Marco Grob who left Switzerland to start a career in America. Stefan admires the simplicity and clarity in Marco’s portraits. In 2021 Stefan joined a two-year master’s program to further develop his photography and storytelling skills. The arid deserts in the American West became Stefan's preferred places for research and visual documentation. In several projects he covered environmental issues around water, waste management, and land contamination.
Major Projects
Ongoing project since June 2022
Sacred Land – Scarred Land
Critical investigation of the impact of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation
https://sacredland-scarredland.com
Arizona, Utah, New Mexico United States
December 2021 to May 2022
im:permanence
Human alterations in the desert of the American West
https://www.frutigerphotography.com/human-traces/impermanence
California, United States
Awards
April 2023
BEST IN SHOW
WORKS OF EXCELLENCE by The Studio Door
San Diego, California
April 2023
Director’s Choice Award
Size Matters exhibition by Medium Photo
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, California
Education
January 2021 to December 2022
MA in Photography, Falmouth Flexible
Online
January 2006 to April 2009
Group of autodidact photographers (GAF)
Bern, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
May 2023
9th Annual International Photography Exhibition by Dab Art Co. Main Street Gallery
Downtown Los Angeles, California
Exhibition Jurors: Klinko.
April 2023
WORKS OF EXCELLENCE by The Studio Door
San Diego, California
Exhibition Jurors: Maria Mingalone, Executive Director of Oceanside Museum of Art. Megan Pogue, Executive Director of Timken Museum of Art. Sonya Sparks, Owner and Curator of Sparks Gallery.
April 2023
2023 Members’ Juried Exhibition
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
Exhibition Juror: Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director, Center for Fine Art Photography
April 2023
Size Matters by Medium Photo
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, California
Exhibition Juror: C. Meier, Exhibitions Manager, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
March 2023
Landscape Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland
February 2023
Colour Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland
May 2022
photoSCHWEIZ 22
Zürich, Switzerland
February 2022
Art of Photography at Borrego Art Institute
Borrego Springs, California
April 2009
Spuren
Kornhausforum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
