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Christian Bobst Swiss Photographer at photo18

Filed in Exhibitions and Events, People, Photography, Special report, Switzerland by newinzurich on January 15, 2018 • 0 Comments

Christian Bobst Swiss Photographer at photo18

Photo by Christian Bobst

A worker poses in front of a salt mountain

Swiss photographer Christian Bobst is presenting a portfolio of photographs at Photo18 Zurich. Entitled “The Magic of Africa and the World”, he will also be giving a live presentation at the exhibition at StageOne in Zurich on Monday 15th January at 8pm. Bobst, who hails from Solothurn, is one of the most famous photo reporters in Switzerland.

He has won numerous awards and accolades including the prestigious American NPPA “Best Visual Journalism” Award and with the World Press Photo Award. In particular he was much lauded for the “The Gris-Gris Wrestlers of Senegal”, photographs all about African voodoo wrestlers, which he photographed for the German Stern magazine.

Photo by Christian Bobst

At photo18’s photoFORUM, the award-winning self-taught photographer will be talking about his many travels around the world, particularly in Africa and will be illustrating them with his colorful images of people and landscapes. Bobst’s photos tell stories – the stories he see with his own eyes and in this way he considers himself more of a photographic storyteller than a photographer.

Christian Bobst

We will be meeting with Christian so stay tuned for some further insights which will follow in this article!

If you would like to attend Christian’s talk at the photo forum at photo please see the full details here.

For more information on photo 18 click here.

photo18 Locations

Halle 622 in Therese-Giehse-Strasse 10, 8050 Zurich and

StageOne in Elias-Canetti-Strasse 146, 8050 Zurich.

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