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Denis Jutzeler * 1956 in Nyon, lives in Genève

After graduating from Vevey’s School of Photography in 1980, Denis Jutzeler took up film three years later and was working from 1990 as head cameraman with directors like Alain Tanner, Marcel Schüpbach, Jacob Berger, Nicolas Wadimmof and many others, while also making some short films and documentaries on his own. In 2014, he was awarded the Swiss “Quartz” prize for best cinematography for Germinal Roaux’s Left Foot Right Foot. Jutzeler never abandoned the still camera howe [...]

After graduating from Vevey’s School of Photography in 1980, Denis Jutzeler took up film three years later and was working from 1990 as head cameraman with directors like Alain Tanner, Marcel Schüpbach, Jacob Berger, Nicolas Wadimmof and many others, while also making some short films and documentaries on his own. In 2014, he was awarded the Swiss “Quartz” prize for best cinematography for Germinal Roaux’s Left Foot Right Foot. Jutzeler never abandoned the still camera however during all those years. Following his work with Fernand Melgar on Vol spécial, he shot, for example, a series of portraits of men at the administrative detention centre of Frambois. OSMOSCOSMOS shows Jutzeler’s image of a layer of dust from the Sahara deposited by rain on the skylight of his house. He used a macro lens to photograph the particles and chose the negative of the image for display.

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