> about my photography: I took black-and-white photographs as a teenager in the 1970s and had my own darkroom, but then gave up photography for almost three decades (probably waiting for the digital age). Since around 2009, I have been taking photography seriously again, with a focus on urban photography. I am driven by my search for a ‘valid’ image of our present and the world we live in—a world that, since that time, has been urban for more than 50 percent of humanity. In recent years, I have broadened my horizons to new fields, I’m just curious to see what comes of it. And finally: I am not interested in purely photographic effects (special contrasts, perspectives, geometric patterns, etc.)—as already mentioned, I am interested in an image of the ‘world,’ but an image that should always be a “beautiful photograph,” as Jeff Wall says (
> cv: Berlin and Zurich based, born in Basel, Switzerland, Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich from 2000 to 2021 (
> contact: philipp.sarasin@gmail.com, instagram (barely activ)m: @philipp_sarasin
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