Welcome to Showcase Switzerland, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, photo production and photo post production companies working out of Switzerland.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Zurich Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Engel & Völkers, British Airways, Coop Schweiz,  Red Bull, Overland Sheepskin, Adidas, Migros, Economiesuisse, Chicco, and Driveswiss among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Don't miss our recommended events: 

• Lee Miller – A Photographer Between War and Glamor. The first-ever exhibition in Switzerland of Elizabeth “Lee” Miller's life’s work features some 200 originals. Until 3rd of January 2021 at Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich.
• Black Movie, an international festival of independent films, offering the film-lovers an opportunity to discover the films of some of the best Asian, African, Middle Eastern and South American directors. From 22th to 31th January 2021, Geneva. 

Our cover image was shot by Sabine Liewald.

Before being a photographer, Samir Seghrouchni was a chef who worked extensively in gastronomy. In 2014 he graduated from art school in photography and gained design skills in various disciplines. He worked as an assistant for many studios until he decided to study (BA Fine Arts) at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Now he works as a professional still life and architecture photographer. 

The reduced works are highly ephemeral and inexplicably beautiful. His pictures radiate a mixture of both poetry and melancholy. Samir Seghrouchni sparks ideas and creativity. He is a highly diverse artist with a poignant sensitivity.

There isn't anything in Switzerland that you couldn’t find somewhere else in the world. Finland has more lakes, the glaciers in Iceland are bigger, the mountains in Nepal are higher and in Italy you will find more apricot orchards, but in Switzerland all of this is so close together, and let's not forget the outstanding classic and modern architecture.

Since 1999 Luminosa Production has provided a personalised service, tailored to the various needs and requirements for advertising fashion and editorial shoots. For both still and moving images in Switzerland and the countries around it.

Back to the roots, Luminosa opened this year again an office in Paradiso, Lugano - in the south of Switzerland, one of Europe's most beautiful and sunny regions, famous for its unique “Swiss-Mediterranean“ lifestyle.

Thomas Baumann is a Swiss Photographer based in Zurich and Thun, which is just next to the Swiss Alps. Therefore he loves to work in the mountain wilderness which he knows well as he does of sports up there. He loves to shoot staged portrait stories in nature as well as in urban or working settings for editorials or corporate clients.

He's versatile, he covers coordinating, shooting and post-production if needed and knows how to keep the budget low. He's a team player and loves to develop a shooting idea together with the client or in another creative team. 

Recent clients are British Airways, Air Zermatt, Leading Swiss Agencies and Swiss Science Council SSC.

Daniel Infanger, based in Basel and Zürich, has more than 20 years' experience in photography working across advertising, people and interiors and is also a director of corporate image films.

In 2015, Daniel founded Mount Harbor Films, and has broad experience in photography and post-production. Mount Harbour Films focuses on projects that combine photography and film, providing full service resolution from concept and pre-production to post-production.

Latest projects shown in this Showcase:

• Marie-Agnès Gillot – danced with the Paris Opera Ballet as an étoiles 
• BLB Executive Ground Transportation the art of chauffeuring, film and photo
• BLKB Campaigns - Summer and the actual autum campaign, film and photo
• Coop Hello Summer, film and photo
• Coop Pronto – Bikerepair, film and photo
• Energiedienst - their 1/2 yearly business report 

He is currently working on two film projects, a Super–8 Film and a film for cinema - both will be released in 2021.

He launches his new website in December 2020, be sure to check it out.

His main occupation as a child was to look out of the window for hours, to observe, to discover photo and art books to immerse himself in his creative and narrative world - of course he did not know what all this was for!!!!

His name, Marco Aste, born in Basel, autodidact with Italian roots, grew up with the openness of the border triangle, approaches people without prejudice, still loves to observe all his life, to capture the faces, to tell the stories, to live their culture and love their environment, to present their projects in timeless modern clarity for his national and international clients in the advertising and editorial field.

Some of his latest works: Die Weltwoche, Gruner AG, DePuy Synthes, ZKB Zürcher Kantonal Bank and 50Plus editorial.

Title: Enfant Terrible 

"I used to believe that a picture could change the world, it was my job to show it as brutally and realistically as possible. The closer to the action - the better. 

I was with those in power and with the oppressed," says 1985 Robert Capa Award winner Alberto Venzago. 

LIFE, STERN and Sunday Times Magazine printed the stories about the Japanese mafia, child prostitution and voodoo in West Africa of the Magnum Nominee.

After 40 years of photojournalism it was time to write a new chapter. The loner has become an artist duo. With Julia Fokina two like-minded people have found each other, they work under the common name "ONE".

 "We combine photojournalism and fine arts, interpret events in a new, emotional and often provocative way."

"There must be much more that life can offer." says Julia. The search began in the late 80s in the Soviet Union in the Moscow underground scene of theatre and music. 

As the first punk model she shocked the fashion world. It is a long journey, inside and outside. The driving force is desire and adventure. "I am now where I always wanted to be. I am not only in front of the camera, but together we create these worlds of images. The ideas are often based on my life stories, or appear from the subconscious."

The artist couple Fokina-Venzago become symbiotic lovers connected to the darkness by fascination, they know no boundaries.

After seven years of working together around the world, a 45 kilo sumo art book has been created in a limited edition of 10. "ONE-seduced by the darkness“. 

The winner picture "Enfant Terrible" was taken for this book.

Carlos Crespo, educated in photography and classical music, is an international active freelance photographer and filmmaker. 

He’s working for corporations like GEBERIT, AXA, MIGROS, Stadler Rail amongst others. He recently realised the photographic visual identity of the Pathé Cinemas Switzerland. He has also photographed large scale buildings for Itten Brechbühl and Meierpartner Architects and accomplishing work regularly for NGO’s.

Corporate movies, branding stories and documentaries are fields that are becoming dominant in his career. His studio is fully equipped for any movie up to 8K delivery.

Due to high film demand, Carlos Crespo is currently creating together with two partners a film-production company in Zurich.    

Besides his commissioned engagements, he is also dedicating attention to art photography. He's had many successful exhibitions, book publications and he has also been the winner of several prizes; amongst them are the Prix International de la Photography Paris and Moscow International Photography Award, which reflect his artistic enterprise.

For more than 10 years, Sarida Bossoni has been Switzerland's agent representing a selection of highly talented directors of photography, each renowned for their signature work in all types of film productions.

After several years as an agency producer in different international advertising networks, she is well-acquainted with the process of filmmaking and the requirements of all parties involved.

Needless to say, her drive as an agent is her passion for high-quality creative films. A premise that will always lead to above average, if not excellent results.

Her clients include Adidas, Audi, BMW, Bulgari, Cadillac, Chanel, Chloé, Chopard, Christian Dior, Coca-Cola, D&G, Ford, Giorgio Armani, Ikea, IWC, Lamborghini, Lancia, Martini, Max Factor, Mercedes, Michelin, Red Bull, Salvatore Ferragamo, Samsung, SBB, Skoda, Sony, Swatch, Swisscom, Toyota, Under Armour and Yves Saint Laurent, among others.

Scanderbeg Sauer is a Zurich / Munich-based duo comprised of Andreana Scanderbeg and Alexander Sauer. Renowned for their clear-eyed, fine art aesthetic, the pair has carved out their own niche in the world of modern corporate and industrial photography / CGI.

Having travelled to a variety of industrial facilities and areas around the world, the duo makes pictures of machines and facilities with the same precision with which they were engineered. However cool their work seems, behind the camera you will find the most easy-going and congenial people you could ever imagine. Their experience, efficiency, and can-do attitude enable them to lightheartedly master just about every production. See more of Scanderbeg Sauer here. 

Selected references: Audemars Piguet, BMW, Boesch Boats, Clariant, Credit Suisse, Datwyler, Lakestar, MINI, SWISS, Universitätsspital Basel, The Telegraph, and Vanity Fair London.