Over the course of two years, Astrid and Pierre openly placed their lives before the panoramic gaze of photographer Michael von Graffenried, moving from love to addiction. This long-term series unfolds an intimate approach to their story, attentive to gestures, bonds, and fragilities. By giving a human face to a reality often marginalized, the work questions its place within the public sphere.

In 1987, while photographing the world’s first supervised drug consumption room in Bern for the ha… more

The exhibition "Back in the USSR – Artists of Perestroika" brings together a series of photographs taken by Michael von Graffenried in Moscow in the spring of 1988, on the threshold of an uncertain turning point. Nearly forty years later, the exhibition at ESPACE MVG in Paris presents a selection of these prints, which continue to question the role of the artist in the face of authoritarianism, both then and now.

Just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, as Perestroika ("restructuring… more

The exhibition "Back in the USSR – Artists of Perestroika" brings together a series of photographs taken by Michael von Graffenried in Moscow in the spring of 1988, on the threshold of an uncertain turning point. Nearly forty years later, the exhibition at ESPACE MVG in Paris presents a selection of these prints, which continue to question the role of the artist in the face of authoritarianism, both then and now.

Just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, as Perestroika ("restructuring… more

"On the Edge" presents impressions of the Indian city of Varanasi as seen by photographer Michael von Graffenried, which he took during a six-month stay in 2012. The photographs were exhibited that same year in the form of a large-format installation in the city center, though they were taken down again after just a few days.

Twenty panoramic photographs by Michael von Graffenried were mounted over a length of 125 meters on billboards along the busy Rathyatra Crossing in the city center of Var… more