Claude
Stahel

Claude Stahel, born in 1966, lives and works in Zurich. His career has been shaped by analogue black and white photography, which he taught as part of his apprenticeship as a photographer learned from the ground up with Fred Waldvogel (former student of Hans Finsler). Stahel's photographic activities mostly focused on portraits and people. Stahel discovered working in three-dimensional space. The work at that time consisted of several casts: First, a silicone negative was cast from the object. This was then converted back into a positive with lead tin, resulting in an object whose original use was no longer available. These were then photographed analogously in black and white. This is how “objects were created that, in their poetic uselessness, question everything”; as Michelle Roten once wrote.