«Making visual notes of certain places in a certain time – like an anthropologist with a camera.»
Franziska Willimann is a freelance photographer based in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to commissioned work, she pursues her personal projects which are characterised by people and the poetry of the everyday. In long-term projects she accompanies her subjects showing their developments and changes over time and exploring their different worlds.
PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION
2016/18 Diploma and Studies in Photography, MAZ, Swiss Journalism School, Luzern
2012/16 GAF, self-taught photographer class, Zurich
GRANTS
2020 Athens Photo Festival / shortlisted with the series »Mein Glück«
2019 Finalist Fotofestival Lenzburg, nominated for «Jury-Price» 2019 with the series «Ce n’est pas par lui-même, mais par moi» (Mein Glück) and selected for exhibition at Muellerhaus in Lenzburg, Switzerland
2017 Selected and invited student by Canon for Photofestival «Visa pour l’image 2017», Perpignan, France
SELECTED EXHIBITONS
2022 Best of Visarte Zurich & Guests, «Interplay«
2022 Art Space Parat, Zurich / Female Form
2019 Open Ateliers, Zurich / Retrospective
2019 Muellerhaus, Lenzburg / «Searching for Beauty«
2018 BelleVue, Basel / «Paradise»
2018 MAZ Gallery, Lucerne / Diploma Exhibition
2015 Praxis Zähringerstrasse, Medical Center Zurich / «Summertime»
2013 ABZ, Housing Cooperative, Zurich / «My world», «Stille Zeitzeugen»
