Awards
Shortlist German Photo Book Award 2019 / 20Exhibitions
ANZEICHEN DER VERLÄSSLICHKEIT
COALMINE Forum für Dokumentarfotografie, Winterthur, Switzerland
19.10. – 21.12.2018
Book Launch with Beat Schweizer and Urs Mannhart
20.12.2018, 18:00
Mikhailovna Called
FOCALE galerie – librairie, Nyon
17.03.– 05.05.2019
Book Signings
Kehrer Verlag@Paris Photo
8 November 2019, 2pm
Reviews
Beat Schweizer Mikhailovna Called (Michailovna hat angerufen)
Time and again, Beat Schweizer travels to the extreme north of Russia. The theme of isolation has preoccupied the photographer for many years now. What is life like in the northernmost cities and settlements in the world? Beat Schweizer’s three-part series of works provides surprising answers to these questions. It tells of extreme living conditions, but also of the beauty of normality and the desire for freedom. Norilsk, the city of superlatives: The mining town is not only the world’s most northern city, but also the most polluted. With its well-paid jobs, it offers its 175,000 residents the prospect of prosperity. In stark contrast, only a few hundred people find work in Dikson which for eighty-two days sinks into the polar night. Teriberka at the Barents Sea is the third settlement whose structures and inhabitants Beat Schweizer documented within the frameworks of his long-term project.
Softcover with American dustjacket
24 x 28 cm
184 pages
94 color and 27 b/w ills.
German, English, Russian
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-900-8
2019
Artists:
Editors:
Kanton Bern, WERK-BUCH / ŒUVRE D’ARTISTE
Design:
B & R, Bern (Noah Bonsma, Dimitri Reist)
Product information "Beat Schweizer"
Time and again, Beat Schweizer travels to the extreme north of Russia. The theme of isolation has preoccupied the photographer for many years now. What is life like in the northernmost cities and settlements in the world? Beat Schweizer’s three-part series of works provides surprising answers to these questions. It tells of extreme living conditions, but also of the beauty of normality and the desire for freedom. Norilsk, the city of superlatives: The mining town is not only the world’s most northern city, but also the most polluted. With its well-paid jobs, it offers its 175,000 residents the prospect of prosperity. In stark contrast, only a few hundred people find work in Dikson which for eighty-two days sinks into the polar night. Teriberka at the Barents Sea is the third settlement whose structures and inhabitants Beat Schweizer documented within the frameworks of his long-term project.
Softcover with American dustjacket
24 x 28 cm
184 pages
94 color and 27 b/w ills.
German, English, Russian
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-900-8
2019
Artists:
Editors:
Kanton Bern, WERK-BUCH / ŒUVRE D’ARTISTE
Design:
B & R, Bern (Noah Bonsma, Dimitri Reist)
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