Hannah Hughes is a visual artist working across photography, collage and sculpture. Her work explores the relationship between image, sculptures and language, focusing on the potential of negative space, and the salvaging and re-use of discarded materials. Hughes' practice involves strategies of fragmentation and reconstruction. Her two-dimensional collages are often described as either flat sculptures or sculptural photographs. The shapes in the collages originate from outside edges and negative areas surrounding figures and objects, which have evolved into an ongoing regenerative alphabet of forms. Hannah Hughes (*1975, UK) graduated from the University of Brighton in 1997 and has since exhibited in the UK and internationally.

In Switzerland, if you order coffee, it invariably comes with a portion of cream served in a small, brown plastic pot sealed with a peel-off foil lid. Since 1968, these lids have always featured a photograph. Over the years, a never-ending array of thousands of series of small images have circulated throughout the country and have formed an important part of the people’s collective visual memory. In his series "Escapism" Roger Eberhard appropriates these pictures using a high-resolution camera to create extreme close-ups. The final print is an enlarged reinterpretation of the original photograph, the CMYK color separation process is revealed. These patterns show the ink that constitutes the reproduction dot by dot, as with a multitude of brushstrokes. These patterns blur the lines between painting and photography, digital and analog, past and future. Works by Roger Eberhard (*1984 Zurich, Switzerland) are exhibited internationally and can be found in important collections both public and private. The book to the series is published by Édition Images Vevey. Roger Eberhard lives and works in Stallikon (CH).

The objects in these images have been sitting on shelves for decades, sometimes centuries. They are models, artifacts, natural specimen and teaching objects – a collection of objects that embody the human struggle for knowledge. Over twelve years in the making and numbering hundreds of images, the project inventories what the two women have unearthed traveling to search through archives and collections of European universities and natural history museums. Dutch art historian Flor Linckens calls it »a series of enigmatic and decontextualized objects that are given a new life« and in her review of the work in the summer of 2022, she writes: "Elements from science, advertising, religion, art and nature are isolated and combined effortlessly in what could be described as encyclopedic cabinets of curiosities. In the work of Amuat and Meyer, the past and the present enter into a new relationship." Lena Amuat (*1977) & Zoë Meyer (*1975) live and work in Zurich and Berlin. They both graduated from the University of the Arts in Zurich and collaborate since 2008. The book to the series "Artefakte und Modelle" was published by About Books, Zürich in 2021.

Over a period of six years, photographer Michael Lange (*1953) embarked on extensive journeys to various regions of the French Alps. He created a collection of impressive, meditative landscape images, set between light and dark, silence and storm. He became known for meditative investigations of landscapes. The series "Wald" (Forest) was published in 2012 by Hatje Cantz and gave Michael Lange international recognition as an artist working in photography. Just as in the follow-up project "Fluss" (River), also published by Hatje Cantz in 2015, Lange is concerned with the search for stillness and an emotional relationship with nature. The publication of "Cold Mountain", available from Hartmann Books, concludes this trilogy of landscape projects. Michael Lange lives and works in Hamburg.