Lars Willumeit and Tamara Janes

Photo: Selina Willemse

Lars Willumeit (b. 1974, dual German/Swiss citizen) is a social anthropologist based in Zurich and Montreux. He has been working with the medium of photography in various capacities as a curator, writer, art educator and picture editor since 1993. Since 2018, he has been working as curator of photography at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne. His main areas of interest are: the fields of tension between art, science and society; the new formations of documentarisms; and regimes of representation and their embedment in visual cultures. He received his Master of Arts in Exhibiting and Mediating at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2016. In his final thesis, he examined the future of photographic institutions. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which he obtained in 2000.

Photo: Atilla

Tamara Janes (*1980 in St. Gallen), lives and works in Bern. After studying photography at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and at the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA), she completed a master's degree at the Institute for Art, Gender, and Nature (IAGN) at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel. Prior to that, she worked for several years as a graphic designer and art director in the communications industry. As an artist, Tamara Janes focuses primarily on poor images, digital image archives and image search engines. Her work has been shown at the Kunsthaus Glarus, HeK – House of Electronic Arts Basel, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Stadtgalerie Bern, on the occasion of Plat(t)form15 at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and at the Bieler Fototage, among others.