Anne Golaz departed from her usual, purely reportage style in shooting her project Rural Scenes in order to question the aestheticization of the Swiss peasantry. “The figure of the peasant has been greatly mythologized in Swiss art, by painters like Albert Anker. The popularity of his work helped create an identification by the Swiss people in the values promulgated by his representations. In turn, advertising and nationalist politics have also seized on the iconography of the soil based on the imagery of a rural life. My subjects are not the idealized figures of a prosperous agriculture, but vulnerable people, full of confusion.”
Inspired by:
I really admire Esko Männikkö, Lars Tunbjörk, Eric Poitevin or the early work of Philip-Lorca Di Corcia, for its theatrical ambiguity.
INFORMATION
PHOTOGRAPHY
School
Vevey School of Photography, Switzerland
Graduated
2008
- Website
- http://www.annegolaz.ch
