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If a conference were a piece of music, it would be a symphony. Most of the hard work is done in composing and rehearsing. Nerves are increasingly on edge as the opening night approaches. It opens with the percussion instruments setting the pace, before the rest...
What goes through the mind of a young student who grew up in a refugee camp in Rwanda when he is about to address hundreds of delegates at a large-scale conference in Geneva? What has his journey been to reach this point? What does the future hold for...
Room XVIII of the Palais des Nations is the only one of the four large conference rooms of the E Building that has not been renovated to date. Its architecture is a testimony to the atmosphere that its creators wanted to create when they designed the room in the...
Shot over four years ago (pre-Covid and a lifetime in technological terms) this photograph speaks to the nexus of tradition, modernity and innovation. Looking forward, there is still a lot to be learned in terms of how digital tools (i.e. social media, online...
A good visual story usually requires charismatic characters set in photogenic locations, under an eye-catching light. The infamous ‘Salle des Pas Perdus’ of the Palais des Nations provides just that. When the early morning sun passes through its massive vertical...
Contrasts, lines, shapes, colors and layers. As a documentary photographer, approaching a story visually sometimes comes first, before the themes and the narrative can emerge from the substance you have created. In the case of Geneva’s international scene,...
The UN is often referred to as an entity in itself, operating autonomously of its own volition. The fact that the organization is, in essence, an international one, not a supranational one, is often overlooked. On that premise, is it meant to respond to...
Revealing the backstage area of international cooperation lies at the very core of this series. Here, it translates quite literally. The different layers in this image mirror the various roles and responsibilities shared across the room as well as behind the scenes,...
Conference delegates can be a fun tribe to watch at times. At large-scale gatherings, up to ten or fifteen events can take place simultaneously, with overbooking happening in every room. Latecomers or corridor wanderers end up standing by the door. A single...
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If a conference were a piece of music, it would be a symphony. Most of the hard work is done in composing and rehearsing. Nerves are increasingly on edge as the opening night approaches. It opens with the percussion instruments setting the pace, before the rest...
What goes through the mind of a young student who grew up in a refugee camp in Rwanda when he is about to address hundreds of delegates at a large-scale conference in Geneva? What has his journey been to reach this point? What does the future hold for...
Room XVIII of the Palais des Nations is the only one of the four large conference rooms of the E Building that has not been renovated to date. Its architecture is a testimony to the atmosphere that its creators wanted to create when they designed the room in the...
Shot over four years ago (pre-Covid and a lifetime in technological terms) this photograph speaks to the nexus of tradition, modernity and innovation. Looking forward, there is still a lot to be learned in terms of how digital tools (i.e. social media, online...
A good visual story usually requires charismatic characters set in photogenic locations, under an eye-catching light. The infamous ‘Salle des Pas Perdus’ of the Palais des Nations provides just that. When the early morning sun passes through its massive vertical...
Contrasts, lines, shapes, colors and layers. As a documentary photographer, approaching a story visually sometimes comes first, before the themes and the narrative can emerge from the substance you have created. In the case of Geneva’s international scene,...
The UN is often referred to as an entity in itself, operating autonomously of its own volition. The fact that the organization is, in essence, an international one, not a supranational one, is often overlooked. On that premise, is it meant to respond to...
Revealing the backstage area of international cooperation lies at the very core of this series. Here, it translates quite literally. The different layers in this image mirror the various roles and responsibilities shared across the room as well as behind the scenes,...
Conference delegates can be a fun tribe to watch at times. At large-scale gatherings, up to ten or fifteen events can take place simultaneously, with overbooking happening in every room. Latecomers or corridor wanderers end up standing by the door. A single...
The suit, the tie, the mic, the earpiece. Every world has its stereotypical attributes, its mythical figures. International Geneva is no exception. Like an impressionist artist, a photographer can focus on fragments which, when put together and looked at from a...
