1. Protokoll
    Swiss photographer of the year 2007
     Christian Lutz
     Protokoll

    Order, EUR 35.00

    Over a period of three years the photographer Christian Lutz accompanied a member of the Swiss Federal Council on diverse official occasions throughout the world. In Protokoll he observes the mise-en-scène of authority within the hierarchies to which the political decision makers and their delegations are subjected. He isolates the clichés that rule the world and records the unsaid and unobserved with his camera. His images show a reality that differs from the official photographic reports. The photographs present a concentrated critique that calls into question a deeply ingrained system of representation and causes readers to alternate between laughter and astonishment.

    The best in Swiss photography 2007

    Design: Integral Lars Müller

    30 × 24 cm, 11¾ x 9½ in, 92 pages, 54 photographs, hardcover (2007)

    ISBN 978-3-03778-110-4, e/g/f/sp
    EUR 35.00 / USD 45.00 / GBP 35.00
    Christian Lutz

    Born in Geneva in 1973, photographer, studied at the art school « Le75 » in Brussels (1993-1996), member of the agencies Strates and VU’.

    Solo Exhibitions

    2010                        Tropical Gift, Coalmine Gallery, Winterthur, Switzerland

    2010                        Tropical Gift, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland

    2009                        Protokoll & OutWest, Rencontres Photographiques de Lorient,
                                    France

    2009                        Protokoll, Festival Fotoleggendo, Rome, Italy

    2009                        OutWest, Journées Photographiques de Bienne, Switzerland

    2009                        OutWest, Festival Boutographies, Montpellier, France

    2009                        Protokoll, Quinzaine Photographique de Nantes, France

    2009                        Protokoll, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

    2009                        Protokoll, Espace Soardi, Nice, France

    2009                        OutWest, Théâtre Royal de Namur, Belgium

    2009                        Protokoll, Galerie Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France

    2008                        OutWest, Lumix Festival for young photojournalism, Hannover,
                                    Germany

    2007                        pouvoirPOUVOIR–Love me Protokoll, Centre de la
                                    Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland

    2003                        Bahia, Galerie Focale, Nyon, Switzerland

    2001                        Christian Lutz, Galerie Périscope, Liège, Belgium

    2000                        Karpathos, Photography Festival Photostock, Sarajevo, Bosnia

    1999                        Karpathos, Galerie Focale, Nyon, Switzerland

    1998                        Athens, Istanbul and back, Photography Festival Fotosynkyria,
                                    Thessaloniki, Greece

     

    Collective Exhibitions

    2008                        Head to Head –Political Portrait, Museum für Gestaltung,
                                    Zurich, Switzerland

    2008                        OutWest, Photoforum, CentrePasquart, Bienne, Switzerland

    2007                        Protokoll, Biennale for Photography, Canton, China

    2007                        West, Musée du Château de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland

    2004                        Bahia, Galerie de la Médiatine, Bruxelles, Belgium

    2002                        Bahia, Photoforum, CentrePasquart, Bienne, Switzerland

    2002                        Albania, Photography Festival Fotosynkyria, Thessaloniki,
                                    Greece

    1999                        Karapathos, Centre wallon d'Art Contemporain, Flémalle,
                                    Belgium

    1996                        Christian Lutz, Center for Photography, Athens, Greece

     

    Awards

    2009                        Grand Prix International de Vevey, Festival Images, Switzerland

    2009                        Prix Gianni Tabo, Festival Fotoleggendo, Rome (Protokoll), Italy

    2009                        Prix du Public des Boutographies, Montpellier, France
                                    (OutWest)

    2008                        Prix du magazine l’Illustré, Switzerland

    2008                        ewz.Selection, Swiss Photography Award (Protokoll),

    2007                        Prix Nicolas Bouvier, Switzerland (Protokoll)

    2007                        German Photography Book Prize, Germany (Protokoll)

    2007                        Nominé au Prix de la Photographie HSBC, Paris (Protokoll),
                                    France

     

    Publications

    2010                        Tropical Gift, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden

    2007                        Protokoll, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden

    2005                        AOC une identité retrouvée, Infolio, Gollion

    2000                        Karpathos, Editions Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel

     

    Collections

    Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium