SAINF

SAINF: award-winning Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang's long-term art project

The Place Saint-François in Lausanne is one of the busiest spaces of the Swiss city: public transportation hub, gathering place, shopping district, and site of civic engagement and demonstrations. Situated on the edge of Lausanne's historic town city center, it defies a single definition. Shaped by its many uses and architectural styles, as well as by the diversity of people who sojourn or pass through, it manifests a reflection and distillation of contemporary urban life.

Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang's long-term art project SAINF, which he has been conducting since 2019, documents everyday life, urban changes, and defining events that shape the Place Saint-François as a public space. The series, shot with a medium-format camera, forms a sensitive fresco in which the passage of time, individual life-paths, and collective tensions intersect. With a patient and attentive eye, SAINF recounts a slice of microcosmic urban history.

• First publication of SAINF, a long-term project by award-winning Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang
• Oliver Vogelsang's SAINF documents everyday life, urban changes, and defining events at Place Saint-François, a major hub of public life in the Swiss city of Lausanne
• The book is designed as an immersive reading experience that constructs a progressive visual narrative through montage
• Lausanne's Place Saint-François is a reflection and distillation of contemporary urbanity, revealing social changes, forms of coexistence, and tensions

Autorentext

Olivier Vogelsang , geboren in Genf, arbeitet als freischaffender Dokumentarfotograf. Seine Arbeiten wurden mehrfach mit ersten Preisen bei den Swiss Press Photo Awards und Prix Nicolas-Bouvier in der Sektion Fotografie ausgezeichnet. Bisher sind von ihm die Fotobücher Switzerlanders (2012), Grand-messe (2017) und Fractures (2018) erschienen.