'Mapping Worlds. Welten verstehen - Aufbruch in die Gegenwart' by Andreas Bauer (ed.)

"'Mapping Worlds' sees itself as a temporary laboratory of photography with worldviews or images of this world from today's as well as historical perspective.

Photography discovers foreign cultures and makes them accessible, or it draws pictures of different societies. But photography also moves psychologically,

focus on social and political dimensions. How does the present shape? How is cultural diversity expressed? How do existing value systems complement and influence each other?

19 international artists ask themselves these questions. The insert 'Awakening to the Present' includes 200 historical documentary photographers from the Herzog photo collection

in the Swiss National Museum, which trace a country's path from an agricultural to an industrial country between 1840 and 1960.

They are surprising, funny, rarely only nostalgic and demonstrate the spirit of experimentation in dealing with the medium, which was still young at the time.

Works by:

Anas Al-Shaikh (born 1968), Bahrain; Pedro Barateiro (born 1979), Portugal; Michael van den BOGAARD ​​(born 1974), Germany; Nuno Cera (born 1972), Portugal;

Galic / Gredig (Goran Galic, 1977 / Gian-Reto Gredig, 1976), Switzerland; Bertien van MANEN (born 1942), The Netherlands; Susan MacWilliam (b. 1969), Northern Ireland; Daido MORIYAMA (born 1938), Japan;

Claudio Moser (born 1959), Switzerland; Harald F. Müller (born 1950), Germany; Stefanie SCHNEIDER (born 1968), Germany; Shirana SHAHBAZI (born 1974), Iran; Roselyne TITAUD (born 1977), France;

Olaf UNVERZART (born 1972), Germany; Lidwien van de Ven (born 1963), The Netherlands; Stephen Wilks (born 1964), Great Britain." (freely translated text, © foto triennale)