Chris Burkhard's Wildcards
Here are the wildcards from Chris Burkhard, curator of photoSCHWEIZ 2025.
More pictures by Tina Sturzenegger, Maurice Haas and Florian Kalotay can be seen at photoSCHWEIZ in February 2025.
Chris Burkhard
Chris Burkhard worked for leading Swiss brands in renowned top agencies in the 1990s and 2000s. She founded Burkhard Creative over 20 years ago and has been looking after a diverse client portfolio ever since. Photography plays a central role in her work and is characterized by the creative exchange with numerous photographers.
Her motto is: sometimes poetry, sometimes craftsmanship - but always with passion.
© Tina Sturzenegger
Tina Sturzenegger 's artistic photographic work is dedicated to the subject of food and its influence on society. She was inspired by two key aspects: the visual aesthetics of food in all its facets and the social complexity surrounding the topic of nutrition.
She deliberately enriches her works through the use of AI - not to create them completely, but to complement them. Stylistically, her compositions are based on the aesthetics of the 1970s and 1980s and lend her works a special retro-futuristic charm.
Maurice Haas
Maurice Haas is a seeker. Driven by a longing for clarity, truth and beauty that is also evident in his pictures. They are pictures that manage without elaborate staging and are precise in their composition. Haas captures people without staging them, he observes without judging. He shows them vulnerable but never weak, honest but never exposed.
Another of his strengths is reportage and photo essays: whether in an Italian shoe factory or in the castle of design guru Axel Vervoordt in Belgium - his pictures always impress with their harmonious atmosphere.
Florian Kalotay
Florian Kalotay is always there before you notice him. Before you even realize he's there, a photo has already been taken - a moment captured. Maybe you weren't even ready for it? What appear to us to be chance encounters are in fact carefully selected snapshots.
With his keen eye, his sense of timing and a good dose of humor, Kalotay transforms fleeting moments that others might not even notice into art. He celebrates pausing in situations that are overlooked by others.