
But in 1991 and in Algeria, nobody thought I could shoot like that.It's Official! We have Ushered in a New Era here at and decided to give the people more of what they want. With the rise of the digital camera and cameras on phones, shooting blindly is more common. That’s why the camera is only on the belly, because people can’t imagine that you could shoot blindly. The best thing is not to put the camera in front of your eye, because then if even if they see the camera, they could think it’s at rest. You have to be quick, and you have to be discreet. People act differently, without the interference of the photographer. Today, when you take up a camera, everyone knows it’s there. People behave differently when they know. MVG: I don’t think it has to do with the foreign country, I think that the human being is different if he knows that he’s being photographed than if he doesn’t know that he’s being photographed. What do you think is the advantage of that when you’re in a foreign country? He works between Bern, Paris, and Brooklyn.ĪR: You’ve done a lot of work with candid photos. He has also taken photos in Egypt, India, New York, Germany, and many more. His first major global work is from Algeria, where he went to document the civil war with a panoramic camera held at his waist. From Bern, Switzerland, he started out taking candid photos of the Swiss Parliament. He has projects from all over the world, slowly translating different worlds and lives into photographs. Michael von Graffenried is what one might call a global photographer.

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