Brigitte Lustenberger's Page

Website

http://www.likeyou.com/brigittelustenberger

College / University

Parsons School of Design and University of Zurich

Program

Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Related Media/Lic Phil I in Social History

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Photography, Video

I am...

Brigitte Lustenberger is a swiss born fine art photographer with a background in documentary photography and portraiture. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Related Media at Parsons School of Design in 2007. She had Solo Shows at the Museée de l’Elysée in Lausanne/Switzerland, Scalo Gallery in Zurich and New York. MadonnaFust Gallery in Bern, Photoforum PasquArt in Bienne and was part of group shows in Europe and the US. She was awarded the Grand Prize Winner PDNedu, the Golden Light Award, Shots/Corbis Student Photographer of the Year, Prix de Photoforum PasquArt, The Photo Review Comeptition and others.
She lives and works primarily in Switzerland but works also in New York. Currently she is on a 6-months residency in Cairo, Egypt.

About my artwork

The study of the gaze, the interplay between absence and presence in a photographic image, and the fact that the reading of a photograph is most often triggered by a collective memory are the main issues in my work.
The gaze in my photographs is an important tool to create a narrative and question the viewer’s notion of looking and watching. There are different kinds of gazes inherent in an image: my gaze as the photographer’s gaze, the gaze of the photographed subject, and the gaze of the viewers of the image and their associated perception. I explore different perceptions of seeing and being seen. In some of my works I invoke the gaze of an implied voyeur or observer. It sets up the structure by which memory and implied narrative operate in my images.

Artists I like

Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, Roni Horn, Hubbard/Birchler, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Frans Hals

Interests

Photography, Art, Theory