“What interests me is the miracle of the unspoken and the unseen. I am always in search of stories in my pictures, like a short film that only lasts one frame. I want you to see the photograph and for something inside you to change forever. I want to show you and make you feel that there is a story behind these people and places, a story that, from one moment to the next, could disappear forever.” *

Ester Vonplon was a professional snowboarder and skateboarder when she bought her first camera at a flea market in 2003. She picked up the basic techniques on the Internet before enrolling a few years later in Berlin’s Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm, where she graduated in 2007.

She shot her first work at an underground street fighting venue in Germany before giving up entirely on a documentary approach, choosing instead to photograph the countryside during her solo wanderings in Europe, the Balkans and her native Switzerland.
Vonplon, whose work was first praised in Switzerland, came to international prominence in 2011 when she was awarded one of the Foam magazine talent prizes. After first presenting her works in France at Paris Photo 2011, the Galerie VU’ is pleased to offer its space to a young artist who has long been supported by another major artist from the Galerie VU’, Michael Ackerman.

Ester Vonplon was born in 1980 in Zurich. She lives and works in Zurich and Castrisch.

You can read the complete article on the French version of La Lettre.

EXHIBITION
VU’ LA GALERIE
May 31 to August 25, 2012
Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint-Lazare 75009 Paris
Monday to Saturday 2 pm – 7 pm

*Interview by Anne-Celine Jaeger, Foam Magazine, issue #28 / Talent, 2011.

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