Braschler/Fischer are currently waiting out a storm in Samoa while shooting portraits for a Swiss Re job. Tomorrow night they will begin their 41 hour journey back to Zurich. Here is a behind the scenes image of them photographing a speer fisherman in a lagoon.
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Braschler/Fischer have been traveling this month; after being back in Zurich for just 2 days, they flew to Uganda. Working with the Red Cross, the photographers captured images of refugees from the Congo in the southern Ugandan border city of Kisoro. They worked with the refugees to collect not only their images but stories of an unthinkable, seemingly never ending, civil war.
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This month Braschler/Fischer have been traveling and shooting in South America. While in Dichato, Chile, they photographed the ruins left by a 2010 tsunami. Later, they flew to Peru. There, they interviewed and photographed residents of Pamplona Alta, a poverty-stricken district of Lima.
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Jet setting photographers and new parents, Braschler/Fischer, have spent part of February shooting portraits in India. Traveling with their one year old son, Elias, they have made their way around the country, stoping in Mumbai, Rajasthan, and Bangalore. While in Bangalore, they shot portraits in 2 hospitals, capturing images of many patients. Though these patients live in poverty, because of a state run insurance program, they are able to receive treatments for up to $6,000 for only $1 a year.
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The New York Times has featured Braschler/Fischer’s work from their newest book, “China,” on their “Lens” blog this week. The article chronicles their journey through many of the country’s 33 provinces, which began just after the Beijing Olympic Games when the Chinese government opened up most of the country to journalists.
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Braschler/Fischer shot a series of portraits of gifted Art Brut (Outsider Art) artists at the “Art / Brut Center Gugging,” a museum in Vienna, earlier last month. The museum, founded in the clinic of psychiatrist Maria Gugging, now houses a number of mentally challenged, though exceptional, Art Brut artists. These artists live and craft their work in the facility and show in the adjacent galleries alongside other contemporary artists.
Braschler/Fischer’s work will be exhibited at the center in March 2013, the below portraits will be included in show.
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Braschler/Fischer headed back to their home country of Switzerland recently to continue photographing different subsets of the Swiss populous for an upcoming book. For this leg of their shoots, Braschler/Fischer have partnered with Swiss Tourism Board, who are now funding the project. Below are some of our favorites but stay tuned for more new work from this series.
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Braschler/Fischer’s images of 2012 female Olympians, shot for a July issue of Stern Magazine, will be featured in this month’s issue of “Communication Arts” in the Exhibit section. This year, all countries participating in the Olympics sent women to the games, giving these games the highest percentage of women in an Olympics, ever.
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Visa pour l’Image is the premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France. This festival is a unique event, cataloging the greatest recent photojournalist work from around the world in exhibitions across the city. Braschler/Fischer’s work, shooting released detainees from GTMO, is featured as one of the exhibits.
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Stern Magazine commissioned Braschler/Fischer to shoot female Gold Medal favorites of the 2012 Olympics. The story, published in this week’s Stern, helps mark a year in which more women are competing than ever before and all the participating nations are sending at least one female representative to the games. Over recent months, Braschler/Fischer have traveled to Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Monaco, Rome, and Leysin, to name a few, and worked with a portable studio that they set up on location to shoot these athletes.
While shooting in their popup studio, Braschler/Fischer noted that Hammer Thrower, Betty Heidler, couldn’t believe that she was asked to swing her hammer. She was very concerned that she would destroy their equipment. Valentina Vezzali, a fencer, thought it was next to impossible to catch her in a midair “flash attack” and was quite surprised when it worked after only a few tries.
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