American artist Arno Rafel Minkkinen's self-potraits feature his body meeting nature. His face is always absent as an acknowledgement to a cleft lip operation he had when he was a few months old.
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Dutch artist Erik Kessels was inspired by images he came across in Flickr of a Florida couple with a passion for aquatic adventure.
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Japanese artist Yuji Hamada recreates a Swiss mountain range in his studio to express his doubts concerning the ability of government agencies to accurately capture the traumatic reality of disasters like the March 2011 earthquake in Japan.
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Self-portrait landscape series by German artists Fabian Schubert and Hank Schmidt make panoramas the backdrop of photos featuring the artist as the subject of the painting.
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American artist Arno Rafel Minkkinen's self-potraits feature his body meeting nature. His face is always absent as an acknowledgement to a cleft lip operation he had when he was a few months old.
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Alex Troesch and Aline Paley capture participants of Redhead Days, a two-day gathering of red-haired people in Breda, the Netherlands.
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A blast from the past collection of photos taken by Swiss journalist Edouard Curchod who covered numerous local events in the Vevey region during the 80s.
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Martha Cooper's pioneering attempts at documenting the hip hop scene in New York at the start of the 80s.
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Fascinated by consumer culture, Hans Eijkelbloom trailed people wearing numbers between one and 100 on their clothes.
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Daniel Gordon indulges in artisinal plagiarism by reusing images from the internet to create collages which he photographs and then dismantles again to recreate new works.
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Lee Friedlander captures America by car in his own unique way by taking pictures while sitting in his vehicle.
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Paul Fusco captured a mourning America from the train bearing the body of American senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
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Every two years, Vevey broadcasts to the world why it is called the “City of Images”. A renowned photography school, a camera museum and Charlie Chaplin’s presence in the last 20 years of his life, has energised the lakeside city into adopting a label that it defends with pride.
Entitled IMAGES, the city’s photography festival attracts photographers from around the world. They like the idea of presenting their work in an open-air museum. Throughout Vevey, startling outdoor exhibitions stop pedestrians in their tracks, huge billboards cast their shadows on hurried crowds, window shops are dressed with portraits and even the waterways are sliced with photos.
The following gallery by swissinfo.ch’s photo editor, Christoph Balsiger, adds an additional layer to how we look at photography. Through his lens, we discover how contexts cans transform or transfigure our appreciation of an image, giving it a significance that we might not have perceived had it shot across our screen.
Text: Michèle Laird, swissinfo.ch. Images: Christoph Balsiger
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