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waste, recycle and sustainability, Africa, man and animals, Swiss alpine farmers and contemporary
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Switzerland.
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Life and career
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Didier Ruef was born in Geneva, Switzerland on July 15, 1961. He graduated from the University of
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Geneva, where he studied Economics (1981–1984).
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In 1985, Ruef went to New York, where he obtained a diploma (1986) in photojournalism at the
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International Center of Photography (ICP). It was there that he developed his long-term essay of
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the life of a Puerto Rican family in Spanish Harlem, for which he won the Yann Geoffroy Prize in
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Milan in 1990. These photographs were exhibited at the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland,
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in 1990.
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Since returning to Switzerland in 1987, Ruef started to work as a freelance documentary
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photographer and photojournalist and has visited all five continents, with a preference for Africa.
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He has worked on various stories on the human condition in black & white and color.
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Ruef was a member of Network Photographers Agency in London from 1991 to 1997. He was a founding
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member in September 2002 of the Swiss photo agency, Pixsil, which he left in July 2009. Today he
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works as a freelance photographer, but he is also represented worldwide by the photo agencies Luz
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Photo Agency, Visum Foto and Redux Pictures.
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Ruef has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and
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malaria, Heks (Interchurch Aid), Swiss Red Cross, the Syngenta Foundation and the World Council of
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Churches.
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Ruef's pictures are published in numerous magazines and newspapers in Europe, Asia and Northern
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America.
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He won the King Albert Memorial Foundation Prize in 2000 for his book on Swiss mountain farmers
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(Bauern am Berg, Paysans de nos montagnes, Vita di montagna). This award, among other prizes, was
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the culmination of a long-term personal project which began in 1993 and completed in 1997. It was
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made possible with the support of Pro Helvetia for the photography and book in 1998, and an
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itinerant exhibition which toured Switzerland, Italy, Singapore and Jordan between 1999 and 2002.
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In 2000 and 2001, Ruef was commissioned by the Swiss branch of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for
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an extensive photographic report on daily life in six African countries. These pictures, together
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with those from numerous other African essays form the basis of a book Afrique Noire, published in
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2005. An itinerant exhibition toured Switzerland and France between 2005 and 2007.
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In 2007, he was commissioned by the Swiss Foundation DiDé, Dignité en Détention, for a book Enfants
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Prisonniers on the minors’ jail in Gitarama, Rwanda.
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From 1991 to 2011, he has also been involved in a personal project worldwide on the relationship
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between Man and Waste. He has shot twenty photo essays and has finally published in 2011 the book
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Recycle, Labor et Fides (French-English) and Edizioni Casagrande (Italian-German). In 2018, he has
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published the book Homo Helveticus by Till Schaap Edition on his beloved country Switzerland.
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In 2021, he has published the book 2020. by Till Schaap Edition in which he shot a picture a day -
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366 images - during the entire 2020 year.
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Awards
Swiss Press Photo 21. Third prize for the Swiss Stories. 2021
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Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Nomination 2012
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Swiss Press Photo. First prize for the foreign section. 2006
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Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards. Swiss prize for the technique section. 2004
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Swiss Press Photo. First prize for the foreign section. 2003
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Swiss Press Photo. First and third prizes for the foreign section. 2002
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King Albert Memorial Foundation for the book Bauern am Berg, OZV Offizin Zürich Verlag.
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Switzerland. 2000
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Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Berggebiete (SAB) Switzerland for the book Bauern am
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Berg OZV Offizin Zürich Verlag. Switzerland. 1999
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Passy's mountain book fair, France, for the book Paysans de nos montagnes, Editions Monographic.
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1999
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Honorable mention. UNESCO. Japan. 1993
Applied Arts Magazine Awards Annual. USA. 1993
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Third black&white prize. Nikon International. Japan. 1991
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Yann Geoffroy. Agenzia Grazia Neri. Milan. Italy. 1990
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Second color prize. Nikon International. Japan. 1989
Grand Prix. L'Illustré. Switzerland. 1983
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Books
2020. Till Schaap Edition. Switzerland. 2021
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Homo Helveticus. Till Schaap Edition. Switzerland. 2018
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Iași – Puncte de vedere. Iași Editura Muzeelor Literare.Iași. Romania. 2015
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Afrika, letzte Hoffnung. (Reprint with a new book cover). Pier Paolo Pasolini. Mit Fotografien von
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Didier Ruef. Corso. Hamburg. Germany. 2015
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Bestiarium. QTI. Stabio. Switzerland. 2012
Afrika, letzte Hoffnung. Corso. Hamburg. Germany. 2011
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Recycle. Labor et Fides. Switzerland. 2011
Recycle. Casagrande Edizioni. Switzerland. 2011
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Enfants Prisonniers. Fondation DiDé, Dignité en Détention. Geneva. Switzerland. 2007
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Afrique Noire. Infolio Editions. Switzerland. 2005
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Tausendundein Krieg. NP Buchverlag. Austria. 2004
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Vita di montagna Edizioni Casagrande. Switzerland. 1998
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Paysans de nos montagnes. Editions Monographic. Switzerland. 1998
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Bauern am Berg OZV Offizin Zürich Verlag. Switzerland. 1998
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Weltenblicke. Reportagefotografie und ihre Medien OZV Offizin Zürich Verlag. Switzerland.1997
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Collections
Collezione della Republica e Cantone Ticino. Switzerland.
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Collection Charles-Henri Favrod, Saint-Prex. Switzerland.
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Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneva. Switzerland.
Fondation MAST, Bologna, Italy
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Fonds pour la photographie, Geneva. Switzerland.
Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Museo Casa Cavalier Pellanda. Biasca. Switzerland.
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Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie, Zürich. Switzerland.
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Exhibits
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Individuals
1990
Médecins Sans Frontières in Uganda. Maison du Grütli, Geneva. Switzerland.
1991
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Spanish Harlem. Family Life. Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne. Switzerland.
1993
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Gens de la Voirie. MJC St.-Gervais, Geneva. Switzerland.
1998
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Bauern am Berg. Völkerkundemuseum, Zürich. Switzerland.
1999
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Vita di montagna. Castelgrande, Bellinzona. Switzerland.
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"Paysans de nos montagnes." Caves de la maison de Courten, Sierre (Switzerland).
2000
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Bauern am Berg. Museo Nazionale del San Gottardo. Switzerland.
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Paysans de nos montagnes. Galerie Focale, Nyon. Switzerland.
2001
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Paysans de montagnes. The Substation. Singapore.
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Vita di montagna. CCS Centro Culturale Svizzero, Milan. Italy.
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Vita di montagna. Forte di Nago, Torbole. Italy.
2002
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Mountain farming. The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman. Jordan.
2005
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Africa Nera. Museo d’arte, Mendrisio. Switzerland
Afrique Noire. Galerie Focale, Nyon. Switzerland.
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Schwarzafrica. Coalmine Gallery, Winterthur. Switzerland.
2006
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Afrique Noire. Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Bibliothèque Municipale, Bordeaux. France.
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2007
Afrique Noire. Völkerkundemuseum. Zürich. Switzerland.
2013
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Animals’ World. Leica Gallery. Zingst. Germany.
2014
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Animals’ World. Leica Galerie Salzburg, Austria
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Les déchets dans le monde. Printemps de l'environnement: réduisons, réutilisons, recyclons. Ville
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de Palaiseau. France.
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2016
72 boulevard des écorchés. Cité Séniors, Geneva. Switzerland
2019
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Homo Helveticus. Artespressione Gallery, Milan. Italy.
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Group
1986
Central Park. New York. USA.
1988
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Triennale internationale de la Photographie. Fribourg. Switzerland.
1991
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