About

Stéphanie Gygax is a Swiss-born photographer who combines artistic practice, teaching and commissioned work in the cultural field. She holds a degree from the School of Applied Arts in Vevey and won the Swiss Design Award in 2001. She completed a further education programme in 2015 and obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Research and Art Knowledge at Zurich University of the Arts.
Her work explores the gestures and patterns generated by the encounter between living beings and everyday objects, tools or machines. It offers an offbeat approach to documentary style through an intimate and distinctive gaze, often related to printed matter, and was featured in a number of artspaces, museums and book fairs.
Stéphanie Gygax has published various artist's books with Rollo Press, Miami Books, Innen and Side Issues. A lecturer at HEAD – Genève School of Art and Design since 2003, she developed a curriculum which explores the relationship between photography and the book.
She is part of near. swiss association for contemporary photography.