About the author

1954 Born in Switzerland, in the valley of the cheese with the big holes, the Emmental, I left my home at the age of twenty to explore the world. With jobs in South Africa and Australia, I financed my extensive private travels and, with moderate success improved my travel budget with travel photo reports for various Swiss magazines. In the late 70s I was particularly fascinated by the most diverse cultures of Asia, the continent which I traveled extensively. In the 80s and 90s, I worked for the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs in 10 different assignments as a logistician, water and construction expert on three different continents, with a focus on Africa. In doing so, I witnessed tragedies like the genocide in Rwanda, earthquakes in the Philippines or the chaos of the 89s revolution in Romania.

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Married to Zhane Armijos, native of Vilcabamba, we live since 2010 Vilcabamba, in the southern province of Loja, Ecuador, which I have known since the beginning of the new century.

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As a self-taught photographer, I understood photography always more as a means of documentation, as a craft, and not as a separate art form. With the change from analogue to digital photography, I also discovered the versatile creative possibilities of the new technology and have been trying ever since to refine my photographic style and convey it more expressively.

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